Afternoon Session for Parents (2 - 4 p.m.):  Applying the 'How to Talk So Kids Will Listen' Approach

Session Description: Are you struggling to get your kids to listen? Finding yourself saying no all the time? Would you love to bring some calm back into your home?

Focusing on children under four years, Simone will look at lots of practical examples to move you from shouting, threatening and bribing, to a calmer, more respectful approach with your kids.

Agenda
1. How to get cooperation from your child
2. Seeing from your child’s perspective
3. Alternatives to time out
4. Dealing with tantrums
5. Avoiding roles
6. And more

Evening Session for Montessori Educators (6 - 8 p.m.): Helping Parents Bring Montessori Into Their Home 

Session Description: Parents are often short on time, juggling work and children, distracted by technology, overwhelmed by information overload, and balancing busy lives with wanting to be the best they can be. They know the Montessori approach will help raise capable and curious learners but aren’t always able to support our classroom work at home. As Montessori guides, we have so much we can share with them to help bring some calm into their homes and to offer their children an education for life, not just during school hours. Learn how to engage parents in your school and provide them with tools to use at home so that their children can benefit from Montessori 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. And see how your own work becomes easier when parents are on board.

About our speaker: 

Simone Davies is the author of “The Montessori Toddler”, a comprehensive guide to raising toddlers in a Montessori way. The book is based on her nearly 15 years experience working with toddlers as an AMI Montessori teacher in Sydney and in Amsterdam. She also has a popular blog, “The Montessori Notebook”. She is mother to two young adults. 

Finding Montessori helped her so much when raising her own children and it’s now her passion to help other parents introduce these ideas in their homes too. She was looking to find a way to be with her kids that wasn’t about bossing them about, threatening them and bribing them. Or giving them free reign either. And she wanted them to have a positive experience of school, not just to pass tests, but to love learning.

Simone currently runs parent-child Montessori classes in Amsterdam at her school Jacaranda Tree Montessori.