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Our bodies tell us what we need and what we do not. Sometimes the message is not loud enough and other times we simply are not listening. We knowingly do unhealthy things, but we anticipate the negative effects and rationalize the results to concoct our own message. Then there are things, which we had no […]

Somewhere in the 1970’s the phrase “information age” was uttered for the first time. Someone looked at a Commodore 64 and thought “The future is now!” We can all look back now on those simple-minded, simple living, happy people and laugh at how naive they were. Philistines. Back then, information was exchanged through relatively balanced,

I ran into the parent of a former MAB student who has been in public school for a few years. Her daughter is doing well by all standards, but she went on to explain one particularly troubling and all too familiar experience for so many students in our traditional education system. In her daughter\’s class

I spent the day with my son at his middle school a few weeks back. The school has a great program which encourages dads to participate. The experience, for me at least, was very eye opening. I was amazed and impressed by my son\’s ability to adapt, organize and manage himself under circumstances that even

I\’m not really sure where it comes from, but even going back to my own youth, it seems so many children are naturally interested in commerce. Drive through any neighborhood in Loudoun County on a hot Summer day and you\’re likely to see at least one lemonade stand. I\’ve seen prices varying from 25 cents

In Montessori, we often speak of gratitude with the children.  It’s an important concept to understand.  The holiday season brings out the gratitude in all of us so it seemed like a good time to discuss the subject on our blog.  I have generally thought of gratitude in terms of the feeling one gets upon

By Kristin Tubic (MAB Faculty / Guest Blogger) When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards – Maria Montessori On Valentine’s Day this year

By Bart Theriot, Head of School, MAB I own an iPad, iPod, iPhone and a desktop computer.  I also have two televisions, thousands of channels of cable and a Sony Playstation 3.  I even have a record player.  I am no stranger to electronics and technology and clearly I am in favor of their use