Educating for Happiness. Montessori at Home: From Their to Practice // Marta Prada

248 pages, 2018, Oberon

#education #montessori #happiness

To educate you don’t have

to teach, you have to be

To educate in happiness is

to educate for life!

Marta Prada, the author of the well-known blog ‘Pequefelicidad’, presents an inspiring book for any family. 

Happiness is the ability to savour what surrounds you every day. And childhood is the time to build a healthy and integrated personality capable of doing so. How can we help children become curious, passionate, autonomous and self-confident individuals? Many families wonder how respect for the child’s learning pace can coexist with rushing, consumerism, screens, inequality and environmental pressure. These pages are full of awareness, tools and practical ideas for bringing the Montessori principles of respect, trust and love into the home.

To educate you don’t have to teach, you have to be. Therefore, in addition, to better understand your children, you will have a practical guide to start working on yourself: more compassionate, more humble, creative and above all happier, because the hyper-demand and guilt sometimes prevent us from enjoying one of the most important and beautiful missions in life: being parents. With this book, you will be able to go on a journey to accompany the most significant emotions, and challenges of childhood: sleep, sphincter control, nervousness, conflicts, fears, etc. And also, you will be inspired to prepare a home where children can contribute, value their environment, decide and forge a

healthy self-esteem.