Goodbye sweet little beach life

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

For the past seven months, we’ve been living at the beach. We leased a fabulous little cottage-style furnished casita in a beautiful gated community in the hammock area of Palm Coast. As many of you know, we moved there for a Montessori school for our toddler. When it didn’t live up to our standards of a traditional Montessori program and was not even a recognized Montessori school, we had to bid farewell to our shabby little beach life and move to Jacksonville where there were Montessori-accredited schools. [Read more...]

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Where Does Your Road Lead?

January 22, 2012 By

As I created this piece of photographic art to print on canvas and also mail out for Mail Art 365 at IUOMA, I thought; “Isn’t it odd how predictable change is even when one has well thought out plans?”

My cute little mini-me will turn three in a few weeks. One thing that has been set in stone between my husband and I is the importance of providing her with the best possible format of learning as possible. She has been in Montessori School since the age of eighteen months and it’s been an incredible experience. When we relocated from Austin to central Florida for a terrific career opportunity, we struggled with finding a good school. We were able to move to a beautiful vacation property at the beach in Palm Coast for the sole reason of finding a local Montessori School for her. It didn’t take long to figure out that the school was not at even close to being a true, traditional Montessori school. (A class of little boys and girls wearing nothing but underpants and tops in the classroom, not potty-trained? Unsanitary and degrading to say the least. That was just the tip of the ice burg).

So I asked myself, where is this road leading us next? [Read more...]

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New Montessori Greeting Card Line

November 4, 2011 By

Spritually Elevated Child - Maria Montessori

As many of you know, my sweet little girl started her Montessori learning at eighteen months in Austin. She attended the North Austin Montessori School (“NAMS”) where she thrived on the learning method and loving environment in which she was surrounded with.

Sadly, we had to leave her school to relocate to Florida after four months into the program for her daddy’s aviation career. After all this time, [Read more...]

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Google Founders & Montessori Education

October 11, 2011 By

My daughter started in Montessori School at eighteen months of age in Austin, Texas, following in my footsteps of a wonderful and creative learning environment. One year later, here in Palm Coast, Florida, there is not a qualified, accredited Montessori School. It’s just a temporary hiccup in the grand scheme of things.

I can’t speak highly enough of Montessori education. However, just because a school puts a sign out front and calls itself Montessori, it does not mean that it is a quality Montessori environment. Not all schools are created or operated equally!

If you know little about Montessori, here’s a great video to peak your interest.

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Maria Montessori Quote on Early Learning

September 8, 2011 By

“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one,

the period from birth to age six.  For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself,

his greatest implement, is being formed.”

- Dr. Maria Montessori

My amazing little girl, Sophia (2-1/2 years old) who loves learning new things.

She began at North Austin Montessori School in Austin, Texas at 18 months of age.

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Montessori Madness

August 13, 2011 By

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