Ms. Brittany, Lead Guide for the Toddler Community at Guidepost Montessori at Gambrills, offers concrete tips for how parents can bridge discipline from school to home.

Ms. Krys, Lead Guide at Guidepost Montessori Craig Ranch, shares her best tips for setting respectful limits and boundaries at home.

Hear from Blanca via @whole.child.home about how she uses Positive Discipline with her toddler at home. Rally her expertise as a Licensed Professional Counselor!

Is there a Montessori approach to discipline? What practices do Montessori guides employ in our classrooms, and is it practical and effective for parents to implement at home?

If you are a parent of two or more children of the same age, learn more about the Montessori method as it applies to parenting and education, and offer each of your children the opportunity to become fully their own irreplaceably unique best selves.

How do we as parents know what successful engagement looks like with respect to a virtual school?

A parent perspective on the role that meaningful connection has in fostering independence.

On Dr. Maria Montessori's 150th birthday, one parent shares how Montessori's work is more relevant than ever, offering meaningful solutions to the gaps that still exist across childhood development and mainstream education.

Fall 2020 has been full of challenges for families to navigate, but there's also a lot of resilience and growth to be found from change. Hear from a few of our own parents on how they've adapted for this school year!

When the pandemic overturned our established school-work-home routine, I found myself caught in-between grief and relief.

Leveraging the humanism of Montessori education to fight racism.

Join us in a conversation about safe, ethical, and conscious digital use in our connected world. How can parents help support their elementary children in using technology responsibly and setting limits collaboratively?

Join us to learn about the principles behind our Montessori approach and the details of how we bring it to life – from our daily schedule, to our innovative learning platform, Altitude, to student anecdotes and work samples.

Some children with learning differences will need more support in learning to read, spell, and write. How can we help these children develop their literacy and writing skills?

Blanca, a Guidepost Parent, shares her perspective of incorporating Montessori at Home with her toddler via her Instagram account, @whole.child.home. We have pulled a few excerpts to feature here in our Montessori at Home video series!

With civil unrest permeating the news cycle, and the national conversation swirling around discrimination, brutality, and race, your elementary child is bound to have questions, even if they are not voiced.

While many of us are more cooped up at home during this unprecedented time, health and movement are even more important than ever. With sports practices canceled and camps closed, how can we keep elementary children moving and motivated for exercise?

What will school look like when we are ready to return, both in terms of what the child will experience – and then secondly, the parent experience?

How do children’s needs change during this period of growth, and how should learning – especially if delivered virtually during today’s circumstances – cater to the elementary child?

Do you want your elementary children to be resourceful and resilient? Join Lenore Skenazy from Free-Range Kids and Let Grow's Tracy Tomasso to learn more about how to foster these qualities through opportunities for independence.

Guidepost Montessori has developed a bank of Montessori inspired activities to help parents continue to meet their children’s developmental needs while at home. Take a sneak peek at 11 math and language activities that you can do with your child.

We are in an unprecedented situation where innovation and creativity are needed as families discover new ways to work, learn and grow together. Learn more about how a Montessori approach to parenting can help!

In speaking with your children about Coronavirus, including preventative measures, as well as any school closures that become necessary, there are some key goals to keep in mind.

Guidepost Montessori is hosting a webinar series on Montessori, child development and parenting topics!

Making decisions about your child’s early education and care can be challenging. Now face the decision of whether or not to go back to work, stay at home, enroll their infant in daycare, hire a nanny...it’s a big decision!

Learn about a collection of stories that are presented in the beginning of the school year in elementary classrooms.

Sandpaper Numerals help form the building blocks of numeracy, leading to bigger math work.

The Number Rods are a Montessori math material that expose the child to the concept of measurement.

Normalization is one of those Montessori terms that doesn't have an obvious meaning.

The Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a knowledge-rich, child-centered educational approach.

One of the pleasures of watching a child grow is being shocked out of taking the mundane for granted. The most ordinary things that we seemingly know without thinking and can do without trying, are, for the child, joyous challenges.

One of the first things you notice when you walk into a Montessori school is that the classrooms are not divided by age. In a Montessori classroom, you will see children of different ages working together and socializing happily.

Ask anyone, parent or not, whether they know what a “temper tantrum” is, or what the “terrible twos” are, and you can bet that they have no trouble picturing a toddler meltdown at a playground, a grocery store, or an airport.

The binomial and trinomial cubes are first introduced to children as young as three, as a sensorial puzzle, but are later used by the upper elementary child to discover the formula for the cube of binomials and trinomials. A bit of Montessori magic!

What does supporting the development of your child's inner discipline look like in practice? It means discipline isn’t about taking something away; it’s about repeatedly teaching the child what to do instead.

Reading and writing are sometimes taken for granted by adults who have mastered the skills—but looking at them from a child’s perspective, they are skills of Herculean difficulty.