Gold Coast Baby - Infant Montessori Child Care
Offering A World Of Montessori Education And Care For Your Children
0 - 3 Year Montessori:
0 - 3 yrs Montessori Infant rooms are located at 9 Robert Street Mudgeeraba Gold Coast.
Infants aged 6 weeks to 15 months:
Infants aged 6 weeks to 15 months:
Its just a little FUN for expecting mums to play with.
Listen to babies heart beat (pink button) etc
You click on to the Get Widget logo above and follow instructions to down load it to your FaceBook with your expected baby arrival date.
Listen to babies heart beat (pink button) etc
You click on to the Get Widget logo above and follow instructions to down load it to your FaceBook with your expected baby arrival date.
Mums and Dads, when you need a night out.....
Dont forget there is a Drive Movie Theatre at Yatla
Baby can sleep, and feed in the comfort of your own car.
Dont forget there is a Drive Movie Theatre at Yatla
Baby can sleep, and feed in the comfort of your own car.
Sensitive Period for Language
Even before birth, many babies react to sounds they perceive going on in the outside world. Often, Montessori parents take care to sing, talk and read to their children before their ‘arrival’. After birth, babies find themselves in a world of sounds and often, their greatest interest is in the sounds of human speech coming from their parents. Infants intently watch the mouths of the people around them and begin moving their own lips in imitation. Soon, they begin to explore their own ability to create different kinds of sounds and develop a fascinating repertoire of syllables that they will repeat over and over, trying to perfect the control of their throat, tongue and lips.
Sensitive Period for Order
I have found that it is this last sensitive period that comes as the biggest surprise to new parents. To explain this concept simply, newborns start to gain a feeling of security by making sense of all of the things they perceive in their surroundings, be this people or furnishings. Their own place in the scheme of things feels safe when they wake up from a nap and discover that everything is in its rightful location.
In Conclusion
Dr. Montessori believed that these special sensitive periods were at their keenest from birth to five years of age.
An extraordinary amount of development takes place in the first year of life, both for the growing child and for the parent who is striving to identify and fulfill the baby’s needs.
Our Gold Coast Montessori Infant Baby Room
Is filled with Love and Nurturing. Your baby can develop in our centre from 6 weeks old through to the age of 6 years.
Even before birth, many babies react to sounds they perceive going on in the outside world. Often, Montessori parents take care to sing, talk and read to their children before their ‘arrival’. After birth, babies find themselves in a world of sounds and often, their greatest interest is in the sounds of human speech coming from their parents. Infants intently watch the mouths of the people around them and begin moving their own lips in imitation. Soon, they begin to explore their own ability to create different kinds of sounds and develop a fascinating repertoire of syllables that they will repeat over and over, trying to perfect the control of their throat, tongue and lips.
Sensitive Period for Order
I have found that it is this last sensitive period that comes as the biggest surprise to new parents. To explain this concept simply, newborns start to gain a feeling of security by making sense of all of the things they perceive in their surroundings, be this people or furnishings. Their own place in the scheme of things feels safe when they wake up from a nap and discover that everything is in its rightful location.
In Conclusion
Dr. Montessori believed that these special sensitive periods were at their keenest from birth to five years of age.
An extraordinary amount of development takes place in the first year of life, both for the growing child and for the parent who is striving to identify and fulfill the baby’s needs.
Our Gold Coast Montessori Infant Baby Room
Is filled with Love and Nurturing. Your baby can develop in our centre from 6 weeks old through to the age of 6 years.
Gold Coast Montessori Early Learning & Child Care Centre © 2008
Let’s Start at the Very Beginning:
Gold Coast Montessori for Infants
When is it too early to start Montessori?
Gold Coast Montessori for Infants
When is it too early to start Montessori?
As the song says, the beginning is “a very good place to start!” Can you tell I watched The Sound of Music last night? In thinking about this topic..................
“The baby’s fundamental need – precisely because he is a human being – is to be loved. But it takes a mature person to love a baby, because love takes time, love takes patience, love takes fortitude, love even requires a certain kind of humility: to love another better than one’s self. The baby needs time to be understood: he needs time in everything he does.”
Doctor Maria Montessori went on to exhort parents to not to misunderstand Montessori thought as being a faddish status symbol, something to be gone at halfheartedly with the vague goal of speeding up a child’s intellectual development. Though academic development is certainly an important part of the Montessori method, it is the baby’s emotional development that should be dearest to the hearts of mothers and fathers. The parent must be devoted to the ‘total child’.
Taking her cues from geneticist Hugo de Vries,Dr. Maria Montessori identified four areas of infant development referred to as the ’sensitive periods’. By carefully preparing an environment in which babies can begin to safely explore these four needs to grow, the parent is acting with great love and wisdom and is fostering a strong sense of emotional well-being in their child. If your family is expecting a new baby, now is the time to consider how you will best serve your baby’s needs in the following four sensitive periods.
Sensitive Period for Movement
Even before birth, babies are testing out their limbs, their reflexes and gross motor skills. From birth to 12 months, this joyous exploration of the body’s power progresses from kicking and stretching to being able to use the little fingers as pincers to pick up all kinds of interesting objects. Control of the hands and feet, self-support of the head, hand-eye coordination and the miracle of crawling all come into play in the first year of life.
Sensitive Period for Sensory Perception
An infant’s perception of sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is fresh, new and acute. Montessori parents turn a cold shoulder to the commercial manufacturers of infant toys that flash, erupt in electronic sound, and are made of lifeless plastic and other synthetics. These objects are simply overwhelming for a new baby’s sensory experience of the world. Keeping things calm and quiet, keeping manufactured stimuli to a minimum, and giving priority to a newborns’ most important connection to their human parents is key.
“The baby’s fundamental need – precisely because he is a human being – is to be loved. But it takes a mature person to love a baby, because love takes time, love takes patience, love takes fortitude, love even requires a certain kind of humility: to love another better than one’s self. The baby needs time to be understood: he needs time in everything he does.”
Doctor Maria Montessori went on to exhort parents to not to misunderstand Montessori thought as being a faddish status symbol, something to be gone at halfheartedly with the vague goal of speeding up a child’s intellectual development. Though academic development is certainly an important part of the Montessori method, it is the baby’s emotional development that should be dearest to the hearts of mothers and fathers. The parent must be devoted to the ‘total child’.
Taking her cues from geneticist Hugo de Vries,Dr. Maria Montessori identified four areas of infant development referred to as the ’sensitive periods’. By carefully preparing an environment in which babies can begin to safely explore these four needs to grow, the parent is acting with great love and wisdom and is fostering a strong sense of emotional well-being in their child. If your family is expecting a new baby, now is the time to consider how you will best serve your baby’s needs in the following four sensitive periods.
Sensitive Period for Movement
Even before birth, babies are testing out their limbs, their reflexes and gross motor skills. From birth to 12 months, this joyous exploration of the body’s power progresses from kicking and stretching to being able to use the little fingers as pincers to pick up all kinds of interesting objects. Control of the hands and feet, self-support of the head, hand-eye coordination and the miracle of crawling all come into play in the first year of life.
Sensitive Period for Sensory Perception
An infant’s perception of sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is fresh, new and acute. Montessori parents turn a cold shoulder to the commercial manufacturers of infant toys that flash, erupt in electronic sound, and are made of lifeless plastic and other synthetics. These objects are simply overwhelming for a new baby’s sensory experience of the world. Keeping things calm and quiet, keeping manufactured stimuli to a minimum, and giving priority to a newborns’ most important connection to their human parents is key.