Making and taking precious time, each day, to slow your breathing, quiet your mind, and tap into “the voice inside of you” is rapidly...

“This force that we call love is the greatest energy in the universe.” Maria Montessori Beyond food and shelter, a child’s most basic...

This little well-spring is my mom! Now nearly 94, the spark is still glowing!

Big Bear Hug By Nicholas Oldland (2020) Kids Can Press Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada There’s nothing not to LOVE about Big Bear Hug! Like a...

“A child’s different inner sensibilities enable him to choose from his complex environment what is suitable and necessary for his growth....

My Heart By Corinna Luyken (2019) Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY. The heart is an unfolding...

Maria Montessori writes that “When a new being comes into existence, it contains within itself mysterious guiding principles which will...

My Heart Fills With Happiness By Monique Gray Smith, Illustrations by Julie Flett My Heart Fills With Happiness is a treasure! In all...

Painting by Hilma af Klint, 1915

I think we may have found the perfect, playful, pandemic Valentine!!! ❤️ Eoin McLaughlin’s While We Can’t Hug is a rare gem!!! During...

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy...

Karen Beaumont’s I Like Myself is a delightful celebration of what it means to be alive and comfortable in your own skin! The story’s...

“Love is more than the electricity which lightens our darkness, more than the etheric waves that transmit our voices across space, more...

In early childhood “the psychic life of a child needs to be protected and to be surrounded by an environment that could be compared with...

“Start with what you know!” - What better place to begin to develop a gratitude practice than with yourself?!? All of Me! is a...

Dallas Clayton’s An Awesome Book of Thanks is a treasure and a testament to the infinite number of people, places and things there are to...

“Never underestimate the creative intelligence of a child.” Maria Montessori Pamela Zagarenski’s The Whisper is a Montessori-must!  This...

“... LOVE - rules the world, keeps the stars in their courses, causes the conjunction of atoms to form new substances, holds things down...

“Children become like the things they love.”1 Maria Montessori Layla is a savvy seven year old who is very much attuned to those things...

“One sees rightly only with the heart.  What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery Young...