INDEPENDENT, CURIOUS CHILDREN; CALM, CONSCIOUS PARENTS When children are given autonomy and encouragement to cultivate their potential, it is amazing what they can achieve. In this book, acclaimed educators Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike show parents how to enhance children's innate curiosity and help them develop respectful relationships with their family and social environment. With examples, photographic material, and useful charts, they guide you to: • Become the child's guide by giving them space to grow. • Arrange your home to encourage exploration. • Organize Montessori activities that respect the child's development pace and interests. • Cultivate kindness and good manners to enable them to create healthy relationships and find solutions to problems. • Support your child during the challenging teenage years. Is there an easier way to raise our children? Can we become parents with meaningful presence and calmness? And what would our family life be like if we set aside complex situations, distractions, devices, and screens? Step-by-step suggestions to understand children's needs, raise them with joy, and prepare them for the future. • Important Montessori principles for children aged 3-12 • Arrangement of the home space (prepared environment) • Cultivation of the child's social and moral development (social interactions, kindness and good manners, management of disruptive behaviors) • Daily life (food, sleep, toilet, routines) • Other practical issues (traveling with the child, multilingualism, ADHD) • Management of sensitive topics (theft, money, death, sex, war, climate change, faith) • Adolescence (freedom and limits, technology, school, preparation for the maturity stage) • Targeted activities (enhancing concentration, study help, cultivating imagination and creativity, self-care, oral/written language, etc.)