Montessori'n: A Quick and Easy Guide to Taking Your Home from Babies to Bigger Kids

If you’re raising a child in the Montessori way, then you’ve already done a lot from when they were tiny things. You’ve

• Created a safe, minimalist, baby-friendly environment with simple open-ended toys to stimulate all senses
• Done activities to develop motor skills
• Followed the baby's natural rhythms
• Grasped, rolled, sat, sang, and talked with them
• Integrated all of the above with their daily activities
• Bought specialized toys and books

and been a respectful, loving super parent. But now that the little one is getting harder to carry, have you thought how to make your home Montessori style?

1.  Set up a child-friendly, distraction-free environment with access to engaging activities
2.  Involve children in practical life skills like cooking, cleaning, dressing themselves (break tasks into steps to make it easier)
3.  Let kids choose activities based on interests and developmental stage.
4.  Rotate toys to maintain freshness
5.  Teaching them to care for themselves, the environment, and be courteous.
6.  Use positive discipline focused on understanding emotions, building skills, and natural consequences.
7.  Aim to foster independence, responsibility, focus, respect, and capable individuals through purposeful work.
8.  Establish routines, and guide children's learning while fostering independence
9. Fill their toy chest with open ended toys

Follow these steps for an easy path to making your home more Montessori, and check out our site for more!

The steps outlined in this post were taken from a variety of materials, including The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding by Simone Davies, and The Montessori Home: Create a Space for Your Child to Thrive by Ashley Yeh.