Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast

Today’s guest is Simone Davis. Simone is the author of the new book, The Montessori Toddler. Simone is an AMI Association Montessori International Montessori Educator. She lives in Amsterdam where she runs parent-child Montessori classes at Jacaranda Tree Montessori. Simone is the author of a popular blog, The Montessori Notebook. She is also mother to two young adults. We will be discussing toddlers. Join us! "In Montessori it's an alternative education system where we're actually following each unique child on their own unique individual development.” “We start to think that toddlers are giving us a hard time when actually it's them having a hard time.” “We help them as much as necessary and as little as possible.” “Montessori is somewhere in between, we call it freedom within limits.” “It's really just how to communicate in an effective, respectful way.” “it's really about trusting your child that they're on their own unique timeline and that they're different to everybody else.” “I think of us as planting