After reading Simplicity Parenting last Summer, I started implementing more Montessori into our home to add to the benefits we were already receiving from positive parenting of our strong-willed, kind-hearted 3-year-old. But after a bit, I fell off the bandwagon, and now I’m back again and actually making changes in our home! (Wait until you see my dream Montessori bed we got)!
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Why Montessori?
I have been homeschooling my daughter and trying to find a sweet spot of just enough structure in her days. By implementing Montessori in our home just in the last two days, she is doing so many more things herself, and I can see that it’s building her confidence! And from my perspective, having things available to her for getting ready and doing things herself gives her a bit more structure for our daily routines!
Furthermore, I decided to get serious about doing Montessori in our home to make her life feel simplified and more in her control. With her choices being accessible to her and having spaces for different toys that weren’t already overflowing, I feel like her confidence and overall contentment will continue improving greatly as it already seems to have in the last two days!
What I Did to Implement Montessori in Our Home:
- A while back, we bought a 6-cube storage organizer for simplifying and limiting the number of toys we have in her bedroom at a time
- We have toy bins in the garage with all her other toys for toy rotation
- I made our entryway a place where she can put her shoes on herself and grab a jacket or a hat whenever she needs it
- And I made one of our low kitchen drawers a place where she can grab her own bowls, plates, toddler utensils, and different snacks throughout the day whenever she wants them!
The Entryway
To make this space Montessori, I purchased this stool at Marshall’s for a place she can sit down while putting on her shoes herself when she wants to.
Keywords: “when she wants to.”
If you’re part of this community on Birthing Balance, you know this is a place for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding education based on attachment parenting. So, I am not a pusher for my daughter to be independent whatsoever; I gladly help her with anything she asks me to as I learned from the 5 Love Languages of Children, having help with things you can do yourself is a healthy love language!
I mean, I know I love when my fiancé does things for me that I could have easily done myself.
Nevertheless, Keagan has been loving being able to put her shoes on herself now that she’s been provided with something to really help her with it!
Additionally, we purchased two command hooks: one for her jacket and one for a hat. Currently, it’s summer, so we have a zip-up jacket and a sunhat there, but in the winter, we will switch it out to her winter coat and hat.
Her Bedroom
As previously mentioned, we have a 6-cube organizer that we’ve been messily stuffing toys into for months, but now it is properly organized with several different toys and activities.
Keagan also has a kid’s table in her room that she will sometimes use for having a snack, coloring, doing a worksheet, etc. Additionally, she has a small Elmo school desk she was gifted for her 1st birthday party that she recently had me bring in from the garage to do her schoolwork.
We also have a homeschooling/craft organizer with things she’s allowed access to at any time, including some crafts materials, coloring books and utensils, worksheets, puzzles, workbooks, flashcards, and more!
And the last noteworthy piece of furniture in her room is her bookshelf. We used the bottom two cubbies for a couple more toys; the rest are filled with lots of books and some décor. We may soon begin rotating her books as well and facing the covers outwards for her to better see her options, as that’s another good Montessori thing to do!
The Kitchen
In our kitchen, Keagan already had a stool for helping with cooking and baking, but now she also has her own drawer, which I mentioned has her bowls, plates, and toddler utensils, and I put snacks in there daily so she can get them whenever she wants them!
Her Bathroom
We didn’t make any new changes to the bathroom as it’s already as Montessori as it needs to be for Keagan. She has another stool, a potty seat, accessible hand soap, and towels she can easily reach to dry her hands. However, if she were younger and couldn’t reach the waterspout as well to wash her hands, I would definitely purchase this spout extender.
And that is everything I have done to make my home Montessori for my toddler daughter! I am so glad and excited that she’s already responding positively to these simple and affordable changes I made to make her life calmer and simpler. Her spaces are now made to assist her, instill peace, and build her confidence as an intelligent, curious, and quickly developing little girl!
I know this isn’t the extreme or “perfect” Montessori home you’d find on Pinterest, but these few simple and realistic changes in our home have certainly been significant, and I’m very proud!
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