For school families
Your child is in a Montessori classroom. Here is what helps at home.
Whether you are choosing a school or already enrolled, these tools carry the same approach through your front door.
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The child is the one doing the building.
Everything here rests on one conviction. Your child is the one doing the building. A child constructs their own mind and their own body through their own effort, and the adult’s real work is to prepare the world and then protect that effort from being rushed, performed, or handed off to something else. That is the whole of Montessori, and it is the thread running under every guide below.
These are not tip sheets. Each one carries the same conviction into a different room of your child’s life. They are honest about the research, honest about money and access, and free of the shame that usually rides along with this conversation.
Start where you are. If you are choosing or questioning a school, begin with Is It Actually Montessori, so you can read real practice from good marketing on the tour. If screens are the fight in your house, begin with Screens, Honestly, a research grounded look at what technology does to a developing brain and what you can actually do about it. If you are deep in the early years of sleep, food, movement, and toileting, begin with Learning, Not Training, on your child’s first independence, the body. And if you are worried about AI and what it means to raise a thinker now, begin with Raising a Child Who Thinks.
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What is Montessori actually doing?
The honest one-page answer you can hand to a grandparent, a neighbor, or a pediatrician when they ask what your child’s school is about.
What to expect, age by age
Why your three year old needs to pour their own water, why your nine year old is obsessed with fairness, and why your teenager pulling away is exactly right.
Is It Actually Montessori?
The questions to ask, the flags to watch for, and how to tell real practice from good marketing, before you enroll.
Screens, Honestly
A research honest take on raising a child who thinks. The one question to carry into every screen decision, at every age.
Learning, Not Training
How a child masters the body they are learning to call their own. Sleep, food, movement, and toileting, without the shame.
Raising a Child Who Thinks
A Montessori take on children, AI, and the work of the mind. The sharpened question to carry as AI shows up earlier in your child's life than you expect.
Setting Up Your Home for Independence
A room-by-room Montessori checklist. Small, doable changes that let your child do more for themselves.
Download the PDF →What to Say in the Hard Moments
Calm, honest Montessori language for big feelings, meltdowns, and tough transitions. Keep it on the fridge.
Download the PDF →Free, by email
The Montessori home, set up age by age.
A printable, age-by-age checklist for setting up your home so your child can do more for themselves, from the first year through the teenage years. Tell us where to send it and it is yours.
Decodable books
Books your child can actually read.
The same 96 books Montessori classrooms use to teach reading, ready for your shelf at home. Each one is built so your child sounds out real words and feels the win of reading a whole book on their own. Bead color-coded, and every family is reflected on the page. Buy a single set or bring home the full series.
Best value
The full series
All 96 books, every set, from first sounds to advanced phonics. The complete library Montessori classrooms use, on your shelf at home.
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