Tomorrow’s
Child
Table of Contents | MARCH 2021 ISSUE
Woodworking by Lorna McGrath & Pete Moorhouse
Developing Attention Span via Polishing
by Julia Vollkman
Teach Your Children Well by Bridgett Wheeler
Why Schools Should Teach Entrepreneur-ship by Maya Spikes
How to Explain the Covid Vaccine as a Story by Gavin McCormack
Why Montessori Schools Succeed in a Crisis by Elizabeth Topliffe
Individual Liberty and the Common Good
by Andrew Kutt
The Path to Literacy by Charlotte Snyder
Bedtime Routines
by Lorna McGrath &
Tim Seldin
Parenting with Intention by Cindy Acker
Tomorrow’s Child | Welcome | March 2021
This issue of Tomorrow's Child addresses The Crucial Reasons Why Schools Should Teach Entrepreneurship, The Wonder of Woodworking, and Why Montessori Schools Succeed in Times of Crisis. We also share information about Covid as a Story and so much more. Click here to...
Tomorrow’s Child – March 2021 Digital Issue
The Wonder of Woodworking
Especially since many schools have been forced online by Covid, we have received some letters from parents asking this question: What should we do if our child doesn’t like or bond with her teacher (in person or online)? In a normal year, our advice would typically be to first go to the teacher and try to have an honest conversation directly as adults.
Developing Attention Span via Polishing
This article describes the benefits of polishing by deconstructing the actions of a child at work documented by an instagram video.You can view the post by clicking < HERE: arents often ask Montessori teachers why their children are learning so...
Teach Your Children Well
Montessori inspires children towards academic excellence and nurtures the creativity, curiosity, and imagination hidden within ... For many, paying tuition for private Montessori can be a struggle that demands certain sacrifices. Is it worth it? One parent discusses...
Recipe: Preserving Children
Ingredients: 1 large field | 4-6 children | 3 dogs | Goat or donkey (optional) | Grass |Trees | Flowers | Rocks Pool of water or stream | Hot sun | Deep blue sky Process: Mix the children with the dogs and goats. Add next four ingredients. Pour Out onto the field...
Five Crucial Reasons Why Schools Should Teach Entrepreneurship
Teachers have a powerful role in helping students face an uncertain future . What if teachers could give their students hope and empathy skills, even while society faces global health problems and divisive tensions? Teaching entrepreneurial skills can help teachers...
Rising Innovator: Inspiration, Education, Support
ising Innovator is an organization dedicated to inspiring, educating, mentoring, and supporting young entrepreneurs. Our website (www.risinginnovator.com) contains tools and information designed to help youth start and run businesses and to help...
How to Explain the Covid-19 Vaccine as a Story
The Immune System t’s first important to understand how your immune system works. Basically, your immune system attacks anything foreign to your body. If it notices a virus or a bacteria or anything that it doesn’t recognize, it launches an attack...
Why Montessori Schools Succeed in a Crisis
“Adaptation to the environment is the first necessity.” – Maria Montessori (London Lectures, 1946) Editor’s Note: This was written on March 30, 2020. Clearly, there has been a delay in the writing and printing of this article. In fact, it’s been about a year;...
Bedtime Routines for Younger Children
This is ann excerpt from Tim Seldin and Lorna McGrath's upcoming book Montessori for Everyone he type of sleeping arrangements for infants and toddlers are debatable and based on the family’s beliefs, cultural background, and values. In...
Individual Liberty and the Common Good
Reflections on the Events of January 6 he invasion of our Capitol on January 6th was a watershed moment in the history of the United States. It will sit among the darkest moments in our nation’s history and will continue to haunt us as we try to...
Spending Cleanse
Reset your spending habits with a spending cleanse torealign your values and goals with your spending habits. o one is perfect with money; we’re all creatures of habit. When we’re stressed out or bored or unhappy, we spend more, which can become a...
The Path to Literacy
he path to literacy is unique in the Montessori classroom. Rather than begin by identifying common simple words—cat, ball—we begin with sounds, and move first to writing, then reading. We start with Sound Games, an activity with a child or with a...
The Magic of Montessori: Tidy-Up Tips That Will Change Your Life
hildren!...they might be little, but their stuff is everywhere! In my home, I have used five Montessori magic steps to organize all of my children’s stuff (including outgrown clothes, school work, gifts (birthday, goodie bag etc), kids ‘meal toys,’...
Parenting with Intention
o you recall that Bob Marley song? When I visit my daughter (Jenn) and son-in-law (Patrick), it is typical that I hear some version of reggae or Bob Marley playing before I go home (even perhaps in his chiropractic office). It is with intention...
Dear Cathie: Neediness during Covid
Dear Cathie— COVID-19 has been going on a long time and our nuclear family has been home together for many, many months! While there have been some positive things to come out of this experience, we are finding our preschool and kindergarten children to still be...
Book Reviews | March 2021
Written by Raife Cebec | Designed by Murat Ağdemir | llustrated by Merve Tokmak and Murat Ağdemir A Montessori teacher who lives in Philadelphia, PA half of the year and in Istanbul, Turkey the other half wrote this book. She is a mother and grandmother. She wrote...
Submitting an Article to Tomorrow’s Child
e are grateful to all who wish to contribute an article or photo essay to share with the readers of Tomorrow’s Child magazine. Over the years we’ve been asked many questions regarding format, length, usage, etc so we’ve put together this checklist...
Virtual Relationship Building
If it were not for virtual meetings, FaceTime, and the occasional video, I would not be able to interact with my children and grandchildren, who live in other states. It has literally been a year since I’ve been with them in person.
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