Montessori Nature's Smile

Here is a collection of activities from our Montessori Center. Lovely Montessori teachers kindly allowed me to share their ideas with you, beautiful readers.

"Every baby is born with about 100 billion neurons. Neurons are the special cells responsible for most brain functions, such as thinking, seeing and feeling. We currently believe that those 100 billion neurons are all you get; few or none of them are produced later in life. Neurons connect with each other across tiny spaces called “synapses.” These connected neurons join together to form the systems that perform the various functions of the brain.

There are a few main points of our parenting that we truly believe provide a great foundation for brain development:

1.TALK to the child all the time so she is used to hearing speech (except when child is focusing on something else). When possible while talking make an eye contact. We also have been reading books every day since she was born. Our favourite books to read are the Bible and photography books with big beautiful realistic photos

At one very early stage of my motherhood I realised that I was sick of those huge books on raising babies which gave you an answer for EVERY single issue, describing every step as if mother had no ability to figure it out. It just did not work for me. So I started to look for something different and found this wonderful book called "The other baby book" written by OTHER mums. Who can be more qualified? From that day on motherhood became one of the most exciting journeys of my life. I wasn't going crazy when my baby started to cry, instead I took it as a gift - the ability of this little creature to tell me that she has a NEED. And how satisfying it is to fulfil it. I always thought  to myself how hard it must be when you relay on someone else for you to be fed, cleaned, dressed, comforted. Well, anyway, It was so interesting to find this article, check it out:

Once my baby was born I realised that I don't just feel comfortable with modern popular ways to care for babies: leaving baby to cry themselves to sleep, constantly using all sorts of "baby holders" like prams, baby seats, bouncers, etc.; putting baby on a feeding schedule. So when I decided to follow my gut - I found out that there is a name to my parenting style - called Attachment Parenting. I practice co-sleeping, baby- caring, feeding on demand, etc. Of course I am not saying that  what other people do is wrong I just enjoy doing it my way. Here is why I think Attachment Parenting is beneficial: