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These posts are really bitter, judgmental and ill-informed. You may disagree with her approach, but there seems to be a real lack of understanding among these posts about how certain educational philosophies are translated into spaces.

Montessori believed foremost in the environment as a teacher. She believed in simplicity, surrounding children with high quality materials, believing that they were capable of doing and understanding more than what most adults thought they could do, and engaging them through real experiences based in reality--everything that Mahar is doing here in her home.

And why wouldn’t Darwin be exciting to a young boy?! Darwin was quite the adventurer traveling around the world on a ship for 5 years exploring wild and exciting places and then coming up with a theory that changed the world! Do you really think Barbie, or Dora the Explorer, or some other lame mass market produced licensed character would be a better, more age appropriate choice?

And having some help on the weekend--seriously, I think she has three kids under 5 and she runs her own business! I can barely manage one kid! Grownups need a break too sometimes...

Last point-- a lot of people seem disturbed about Sally Mann’s photo “Damaged child.” Clearly no one here has a clue about the piece. It’s a photograph of the artist’s daughter after she'd been stung by a bee! Get a grip, y’all!