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A Montessori Home: Teaching Responsibility
According to Montessori from the Start, children are usually ready to start Practical Life activities around 15 months old. Henry is officially 16 months old, so we’ve been seizing any opportunity to involve him in our daily life. For example, we ask him to carry his breakfast (a bowl of plain, whole fat yogurt with blueberries) to his table every day, and then we ask him to carry it to the kitchen when he’s done (he eats breakfast and snacks at his weaning table). I ask him to put his clothes in his laundry basket, turn on lights, close doors, etc.
After watching Edison’s Day for the upteenth… Read More -
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It’s Official: We’re Having a Miscarriage
Matt and I went to the ultrasound appointment yesterday. I was surprisingly able to rein in my tears. All of my optimism from last week evaporated. I was completely expecting to hear that the pregnancy was no longer viable. I worried, however, that the developing fetus would be somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be, especially when the technician needed to do a transvaginal ultrasound in addition to the regular ultrasound. It was a relief to hear that the pregnancy stopped developing around five or six weeks, and that the fetus is relatively small. In short, the miscarriage is official.
I’ve decided to wait and see if I can miscarry naturally. … Read More
