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Montessori Storytelling at Home: How to Make Reading More Engaging
10/2025
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Montessori Storytelling at Home: How to Make Reading More Engaging

Storytime isn’t just about reading words on a page—it’s a chance to spark imagination, build a child's vocabulary, and share a moment of real connection.

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02/2025
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How to get into the present using your senses

We will end our article series about helping children sleep tight with one final relaxation technique. We already know how to perceive our breath and body. Another way to get ourselves anchored to the present is to focus on our senses.

02/2025
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How to get a first grader ready for school? 7 hacks for parents and children

What can we as parents do to prevent that great initial enthusiasm from turning into disappointment, and how do we make children who are worried about school look forward to it?

02/2025
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Children and loss - when children grieve

What’s the best way of speaking to children about divorce? Or preparing them for moving house? Or explaining what death is? These are issues we’re often reluctant to consider ourselves, let alone discuss with children. They are associated with difficult situations that we adults don’t find easy to deal with ourselves.

02/2025
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My child is bored again! Tips and tricks for coping with boredom

Have you ever thought about what boredom really is, or about why you get bored? Boredom is a signal that the activity you are engaged in is not, for whatever reason, currently satisfying you. Perhaps you find it uninteresting, or you’ve been doing it for too long, or you’re tired.

02/2025
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Five (not so) traditional Advent calendar tips

It feels like the children only went back to school yesterday, and yet Christmas is already around the corner. Did you also used to get excited about Christmas approaching when you were little, and start counting-down the days?

02/2025
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Feeding birds and other animals in winter

Advent and Christmas are magical seasons that make us all feel like doing good deeds. A common idea that people have during this season is to help the animals that live near our homes find something to eat during the cold season. And why not? It’s hard not to feel sorry for a bedraggled sparrow, and it’s easy to worry about how the deer or hares will find food when the ground is frozen.

02/2025
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Winter colouring sheet - free printable!

Here is a little gift for you!

02/2025
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Gratefulness isn’t old fashioned, it’s healthy!

Why you and your children should find reasons to feel grateful every day.

02/2025
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Starting At Nursery – Seven Magic Tips

That time has come. It seems like only a few days ago you were writing your little one’s first smile and first tooth into the baby book, or holding your breath as he took his first wobbly steps across the kitchen…And now he’s off to nursery!

02/2025
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Short bedtime stories

Some evenings, children are tired and overstimulated after a full day, but they still want a bedtime story. To avoid arguing or refusing to read a story because it would take too long, why not try one of our short bedtime stories?

02/2025
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How do fairy tales help children's brain development? This is why reading aloud is important.

So what actually happens to children's brain when reading fairytales?

02/2025
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Snow White

Do you know any other version of the Snow White story?