How to Teach Your Toddler to Eat by Themselves: The Montessori Way
Your child is three years old, and you are still holding the spoon. You have tried letting her feed herself. Half the food ended up on the floor. So you went back to helping. This piece is about how to teach your toddler to eat by themselves, and why the environment matters more than the […]
My Toddler Eats One Day and Not the Next: Why This Is Normal, What to Watch For
Your toddler ate almost nothing at lunch. You felt it in your chest before you finished clearing the plate. You wonder if she is unwell, or bored with the food, or whether something happened at school you do not know about. Yesterday she ate everything. Today she ate two bites. Nothing else has changed. If […]
How to Prepare Children for the Future: The Skill of 2050 and Why It Cannot Be Taught Directly
How to prepare children for the future is the question every parent is now asking, and asking it more urgently every two years as the world shifts in ways adults were not ready for. A father at our annual school event in November put it plainly. The skill his children would need most in 2050 […]
Teaching Teenagers Engineering: How Adolescents Convinced a Satellite Company CEO in 30 Minutes
When we approached Ronak Samantray — CEO and founder of TakeMe2Space, an Indian satellite company that builds and launches real spacecraft — about collaborating with our adolescents on a CubeSat, he was not sure adolescents could do this kind of work. He said so directly. That was the right response from him. Teaching teenagers engineering […]
From Pink Tower to Satellite: Three Montessori Adolescents at the AMI Congress
Three adolescents from Blue Blocks Montessori School in Hyderabad stood on the main stage of the 30th International Montessori Congress in Mexico, in front of 1,500 attendees from the global AMI community, and walked the audience through their work — from the foundational Montessori material every one of those 1,500 trained adults had once placed […]
What Project-Based and Experiential Learning Actually Look Like in a Montessori Classroom
Months earlier, a family in Hyderabad had lost their house key. Locked out for three or four hours, they had to find an alternative way in. Their son watched the whole thing. “It formed some impressions in his mind,” the father told us at our annual school event, Explore Montessori 2025, held on 29 November […]
Why Educational Programs That Cannot Fail Are Not Educational
For most school innovation programs, the honest answer is no. It is structured by deadlines, by adult oversight, by pre-screened material lists, by exhibition formats designed for parental approval — to ensure that what the children produce is presentable. The risk of real failure has been engineered out before the children begin. An educational program […]