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Ukrainian Translation of “How to Talk to Children about War”

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We never know when and how our work, our words, will be helpful.

Recently I received this message from the translator for Heidi Philippart’s AMI 0-3 Montessori Certificate course, Kate Sichkar:

Many Ukrainians requested that your article on how to talk to children about war be translated. I am asking your permission to translate it so as many people as possible will get answers. As with all of your books, that speak from the heart, it might save people’s souls and give them hope to move forward.

CLICK: for the English Version: Talking about War

And here is the entire Ukrainian translation:
CLICK: Як говорити з дітьми про війну

War
Last week a solo art show here in Trinidad, California featured the above painting, which was created as a way of processing the war. Two young boys shared their thoughts about war, peace, the news, screens, life—their thoughts, their confusion, their commitment to peace, and their hopes for the future. This conversation was the highlight of the evening, giving me “hope to move forward.”

Here is more art information: CLICK: Susan’s Art

And prints and cards, CLICK: cards/prints

Blessings,
Susan

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Mexico City 2018 – Art, Food, Music, Montessori

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Graduation – Montessori Assistants to Infancy, 0-3, course
The main purpose of my visit was as an oral examiner for the AMI Montessori A to I (Assistants to Infancy), birth to three, course. But as always in this Montessori world a guest is greeted with grace and courtesy and a desire to joyfully share culture, which includes food, as Mexico City is famous internationally for this element. Continue reading →

Fischer and Matteo, Musical Montessori Babies

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Fischer and Matteo, Musical Babies

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Children from Birth to Three have an “absorbent mind”. They take in everything that is going on around them.

A child in his earliest years is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile.
— The Discovery of the Child, Maria Montessori

The role of the AMI Montessori Assistant to Infancy, guide or teacher for children from birth to three years, has always been first and foremost to support the parents, the child’s first teacher, at home. Much of this blog post is about that, using music as an example. Continue reading →