Web Sites
American Montessori Society: AMSHQ.org
For great information not only about American Montessori Society, but also Montessori in general, with a tab for families.
Montgomery County Child Find & Infants and Toddlers Programs:
Child Find provides free developmental screenings for children from three years of age until kindergarten. Parents of children between birth and thirty-four and one half months of age should contact Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Program to request an evaluation if they have concerns about their child’s development
KidsTalk: www.MarenSchmidt.com
Find accessible ways of bringing Montessori home through Amy's work at Montessori Like a Mother
Jeanne-Marie Paynel: www.YourParentingMentor.com
Jeanne-Marie combines her three passions: Montessori, Conscious Parenting, and Positive Discipline
Hand in Hand Parenting: www.handinhandparenting.org
Zero To Three - National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: www.zerotothree.org
Provides a wide range of information, and the know-how, to nurture early development.
Montessori Foundation: http://www.montessori.org/
PEP Parent Encouragement Program: http://pepparent.org/
(PEP) is a nonprofit, educational organization established in 1982, providing classes, events and other educational resources to parents and all who care for children, toddlers through teens
Articles
ZERO TO THREE - National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
Love, Learning, and Routines
"For most of us, our lives involve a series of patterns—routines we perform almost every day, like stopping at the same place each day for coffee on the way to work. This is also very true for babies and toddlers. While we play a part in creating routines in our children’s lives, we may not fully realize the role they play in young children's development."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Montessori Mafia by Peter Sims
It may seem like a laughable “only in New York” story that Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, is suing her 4-year-old daughter’s untraditional private preschool for failing to prepare her for a private school admissions exam.
But her daughter’s future and ours might be much brighter with a little less conditioning to perform well on tests and more encouragement to discover as they teach in Montessori schools. Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a Montessori Mafia: Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs….
Books
A Parents’ Guide to the Montessori Classroom
by Aline D. Wolf
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv
I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
by Jennifer Ward
Touchpoints 3 to 6
by T. Berry Brazelton