Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy.  She graduated from the University of Rome as one of Italy’s first female physicians at a time when many women never made it past grade school.  She became the director of the Orthophrenic School for developmentally disabled children in 1900, where she began to extensively research…

(BPT) – When school dismisses for the summer, parents across the country worry about how much their children will forget over the vacation months. Will all those hours helping them with math and reading dissolve with the carefree hours spent at the pool or playground? “While a break from the long days of school is…

                            Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown      Acclaimed for its soft poetry, exalting it as the prime example of a bedtime story      Other books by Brown: Runaway Bunny, The Sailor Dog, and Little Fur Family   Where the…