Parents: Learn About Toddler Independence!

SAN DIEGO - Dec. 6, 2016 - PRLog -- Did you know that toddlers at Lifetime Montessori School make orange juice by hand, zip their jackets, slice bananas and can tell you the colors of everything in their bedrooms?

Well, they can! That's pretty impressive for being two years old, eh?

Parents, continue to stimulate your child's eagerness to learn while giving them confidence to do more!

How?

Join us Thursday, December 8 from 5:30-6:30 pm at the school as we touch on Toddler Independence as part of our ongoing Parental Education series.

Toddler Independence will focus on Dr. Maria Montessori's teachings and philosophies on how to raise capable, independent children. Narrated by Kristin Edwards, M.Ed., co-founder of Lifetime Montessori School in Santaluz, this short presentation and discussion will hone in on what you can do to help your child once the school day is done.

Core areas where parents  can help their child at home are during dressing, eating, sleeping and toilet times. Ms. Edwards will run down a sort of Top Ten List to show parents how to follow-through on the things their toddler learns during the school day.

These recommendations will be simple, sensible and helpful in the growth of the child.

The Montessori Method is a systematic, philosophical way towards building self-awareness, self-confidence, high self-esteem, and a love of learning and challenge. Essentially, teachers ensure the independence of a child's personality through successive stages of growth until he or she reaches full normal development by means of his or her own activity.

In other words, children are given trust and respect to make their own choices and judgments. They receive space to explore their interests at a pace they are comfortable with. Ultimately, they are nurtured by their own 'inner teacher' to discern their own abilities.

Montessori private schools differ from public schools in a number of ways, including:

• Children of varying ages (up to three years) are placed in the same classroom so younger students learn from older ones; in public schools, only children of the same age are placed together

• Individualized student learning

• Low teacher-to-student ratios.

The overall focus is based on understanding foundations that stair-step up towards more difficult material, thereby achieving mastery before moving on to the next step.

But, the main difference is:

• Montessori private school students do not learn via a generic, top-down, institutional, one-size-fits-all, Common Core memorization approach.

As a result, your investment in your child's education today is much like an annuity that rewards you when they become teenagers and college aged. Montessori kids learn to be self-confident early on—thus, they will be capable of better managing their own learning and social boundaries.

So, please, join us, on Thursday, December 8, from 5:30-6:30 pm at the school located at 14727 Camino de la Luna in Santaluz. We promise you'll walk away with strategies that will work going forward.

Lifetime Montessori School serves 170 students living in the San Diego communities of Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Penasquitos, Rancho Santa Fe, Carmel Valley, Fairbanks Ranch, 4S, Santa Luz and Del Sur. The school features toddler, preschooler and elementary school levels of learning. Average tuition is about $12,000/yr. Earlier this year, the school was rated one of San Diego County's 'Three Best Preschools' by a national ranking organization.

For a free tour, visit https://www.LifetimeMontessoriSchool.com/Free-Tours.