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    Update on Montessori For All

    October 31, 2016 / 5 Comments

    Those of you who have been around these parts for a while have heard me talk about my dream to start a non-profit organization that would open Austin’s first public Montessori school and then open other public Montessori schools in diverse cities across the U.S. I wrote many posts about “dwelling in possibility.” If you’re interested, you can read all about it (along with other cool public Montessori stuff happening) in an article from One Day Magazine called: “How a Montessori Movement is Reinventing Public Schools.” It’s been a lot of years in the making and has required a lot of sacrifice, but I’m so honored to get to
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    Montessori Books

    October 24, 2016 / 1 Comment

    Simone from The Montessori Notebook e-mailed me about a great new resource she just created. You can find a link to 100 Montessori books for children under four here. Thanks, Simone!

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    How to Stop Siblings from Fighting

    October 19, 2016 / 3 Comments

    Life just keeps getting better and better as our boys get older (I am definitely not an infant/toddler person). 
    During our last trip as an immediate family (during Spring Break to Flagstaff) before our Fall Break trip to Los Angeles, I had to start reading Siblings Without Rivalry because the bickering was so bad. Since that time, we have been working hard to teach our children not to fight with each other. Instead, we try to teach them to use their words to find solutions with each other. And it has helped so much! 
    We flat out told them, “If you can’t learn to stop fighting with each other, we
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Make yourself at home! I’m Sara Cotner, a reader, blogger, author, mother of two, founder of Montessori For All, and sea foam green pottery collector living with a home base in Austin, TX, with Matt Bradford, going on adventures any chance we get. 

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