PARENTING & TEACHING—From Birth to Three

Below is just a sample of what you will find in The Joyful Child. However, the Michael Olaf catalogues contain 160 pages of text and products so we highly recommend that you order your own paper copy and curl up with it in a peaceful moment instead of spending more time on the computer!
To order your copy of The Joyful child see: www.michaelolaf.net/ordering.html

To see the Montessori philosophy and practice page of "Age Birth to Three+, Montessori Information" go to: www.michaelolaf.net/1JCM.html

THE WONDERFUL TWO'S: A VIDEO OR DVD
This video gives parents many ideas of how to help children fulfill their potential and become happy, in the home. Children who are raised from birth according to the Montessori 0-3 principles really are different.

This is an amateur (it was my first time to videotape!) shows children from the ages of one to three years in Montessori Infant Communities in Japan and the USA. Nothing is as valuable to our understanding as watching the children carrying out their daily lives in this environment.

The Wonderful Two's video is used in training centers and Montessori schools, and parents who have watched it report that it has helped them create supportive Montessori environments at home. Note: the picture here is of a Montessori activity in Portland, Oregon.

GB476  VHS version  $30.00

GB476  DVD version  $30.00

THE ABSORBENT MIND
Children from the age of birth to three absorb everything around them, whether we like it of not. This book gives parents an understanding of this very important ability. "This book deserves careful reading . . . the author's views as relevant (and revolutionary) now as when they were first proposed." —New York Times Book Review. Softcover, 296 pages,

GB456  $17.00

MONTESSORI / SUZUKI MUSIC, Lecture Reprint
Suggestions for combining Suzuki and Montessori experiences for the child from before birth to age six, at home and in infant communities. This is a reprint of a lecture given by Susan Stephenson (Montessori teacher, Suzuki student/mother) in Japan at the Montessori 0-3 course, following a meeting with Mrs. Suzuki at the Suzuki Institute in Matsumoto, Japan. 7 pages.

GB60   $4.00

PARENTING ARTICLES
Aiding the Development of Self-esteem in Children, from birth to age 12+ is an article by Susan Stephenson (Montessori parent, teacher, and author of The Joyful Child) on how movement and work during this critical time aids the development of self-esteem and supports optimum physical, emotional, and mental development.
Modern brain and learning research gives very important information on how television and computers effect the child during the first six years of life. The Technology Screen is a compilation of this information by three well-known authors on the subject of children and Montessori: John Long, Silvana Montanaro, MD, and Jane Healy, Ph.D.
Summer Ideas for All Ages, written by 0-3, 3-6, and 6-12 Montessori teachers (Susan writing the 0-3 section), gives valuable suggestions for using Montessori ideas in the home, not just in the summer! All of these articles were published By The Association Montessori Internationale.

GB784 Technology Screen $1.75
GB785 Self-esteem $1.75
GB781 Summer Ideas $1.75
GB782 Set/3 $5.00

Other Products include:

FAVORITE BOOKS BY AND ABOUT THE CHILD AT THIS AGE AND BOOKS BY DR. MARIA MONTESSORI