This Week at Northwest Montessori

Here are a few things that are happening next week! Thursday, October 17th The Great Washington Shake Out Annual statewide earthquake drill 10:17am on October 17, 2013. More information at: http://www.shakeout.org/washington/ Friday, October 18, 2013 Northwest...

Family Emergency Preparedness

Please check out the following link for emergency preparedness for your family. It is a great site to visit with plenty of ideas and products for creating your own home emergency preparedness plan. http://www.essentialpacks.com/emergency-preparedness-survival-blog/...

Raising Successful Children

PHRASES like “tiger mom” and “helicopter parent” have made their way into everyday language. But does overparenting hurt, or help? While parents who are clearly and embarrassingly inappropriate come in for ridicule, many of us find ourselves drawn to the idea that...

The Right Way to Train Attention

(From a post by Laura Flores Shaw, Head of School, Oak Knoll Kinderhaus Montessori. Originally appeared on The Huffington Post) The controversy over what we should do for children with ADHD just keeps going, and going. In one corner we have researchers like L. Alan...