S2 E6 In conversation with Junnifa Uzodike & Dr Ayize Sabater about how to apply Montessori to babies

I said last week I’d have to do a podcast soon all about babies, and after our book launch Zoom party for The Montessori Baby last week where Junnifa and I were talking all about our love for babies, I decided it could be fun to share the recording from the book launch party for this week’s podcast. We talked about how we show respect for babies in the Montessori approach, we give you a virtual tour of the book, and even some of the people featured in the book were live on the call and able to talk about how it’s been for them to apply Montessori in their lives. And the most fun is Dr Ayize Sabater of the Black Montessori Education Fund. He kindly agreed to host the event and you can just feel his joy and his passion for Montessori. Enjoy…

Links from the show

• Dr Ayize Sabater – Instagram, blackmontessorieducationfund.org
• The Montessori Baby book
• Sanny van Loon – Instagram (our book illustrator)
• Montessori Chapters, Maria and Charlie
• Montessorian by heart, Neus – Spanish/Brazilia
• The Kavanaugh Report, Nicole Kavanaugh
• Mainly Montessori, Pilar Bewley
• Raising Yannis, Ahoefa
• Forest Montessori, Jaya
• Montessori in Real Life, Theresa
• Montessori like a Mother, Amy
• Karin Slabaugh
• To order 10+ books for schools or wholesale, email: specialmarkets@workman.com
• YouTube video of The Montessori Baby book launch
• Tilt Parenting
• Bilingualism
  • Eowyn Crisfield – Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide book
  • Eowyn Crisfield – Raising Bilingual & Multilingual children workshop
  • Colin Baker, A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism

Transcript

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This week’s listener question

I’d love to hear more about your journey incorporating Montessori and bilingualism, Simone. Where we are moving next (in the US), we’ll have to choose between one or the other for schooling (a Montessori school or an immersion school). The second language is not my first language, but we’d still like to introduce a second language. How did you navigate this or do you have any tips or resources you recommend? Thank you! – Sarah