The Montessori Toddler Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Simone Davies (Author), Susie Berneis (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher)

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This guide offers a step-by-step plan that helps parents cultivate daily routines so that they can turn life with toddlers into a mutually rich time of curiosity and learning.

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Listening Length

7 hours and 22 minutes
Author

Simone Davies
Narrator

Susie Berneis
Audible release date

22 October 2019
Language

English
Publisher

Dreamscape Media, LLC
ASIN

B07WRMVVKB
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	7 hours and 22 minutes
Author	Simone Davies
Narrator	Susie Berneis
Audible.in Release Date	22 October 2019
Publisher	Dreamscape Media, LLC
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07WRMVVKB
Best Sellers Rank	#789 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2 in Parenting Infants & Toddlers #2 in Childhood Education #31 in Relationships

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bela b.

great book for parents

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 February 2023

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just when you thought you know it all about parenting, this book comes along. superb read

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Jenn Wright

Nurturing the soul

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 June 2019

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Simone Davies delivers a beautiful way to work with your child at home. She offers many ways to be with your child that attains Dr. Montessori's education for peace for a lifetime. The key ingredients in this book allow the parent to balance having a beautiful child, taking care of ones self, offering a better way to being with your child with many activities that are developmentally appropriate...appropriate all ways to be media free too! Best yet, the book will the parents confidence to be themselves, nurture a beautiful being into this world, and not feel overwhelmed in doing so!

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manoj manduva

Simple and filled with examples

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 July 2020

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Loved that she kind of explored many aspects of parenting (almost all). And loved that she gave many examples than just stating what is not appropriate. So I am able to understand what I should avoid and also I am able to learn what I should be adopting instead.

4 people found this helpful

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mownish

Must buy

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 July 2021

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Best book for new parents

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Yunita Almeida

Best investment

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 17 June 2022

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Best investment

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Aps

Just love it !!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 December 2019

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One of the best books available for understanding one's toddler and a great guide to steer the parents to help their child in the early stages of learning.

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Cathryn Jones

Brilliant in so many ways but some disappointments

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 June 2019

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I’ve followed Simone for a while and find her instagram really helpful and was very much looking forward to this book.

Positives: Book is well laid out, easy to dip in and out and to read small sections at a time. Beautiful illustrations. Following some big Montessori Instagram accounts had left me feeling a bit overwhelmed but Simone makes incorporating the approach simple and achievable. I also feel that her age appropriateness suggestions for activities were reasonable. Simple suggestions on how to make little tweaks to your home to set a child up for success and independence. I like the emphasis put on spending time outdoors. Strategies for respectful parenting with limits have really helped me (and I particularly like the ‘instead of this, say that’ page).

Negatives: language work suggestions with flashcards etc seem tedious and time consuming to set up and unnecessary, I don’t think language acquisition needs to be forced like that. Book advises against playpens but doesn’t take into account different houses have different layouts where a child’s playspace can’t always be in your eyeline or that they can be made a cosy and comforting space. Advice re stand up diapering doesn’t really work for cloth nappies which I find impossible to fit properly unless lying down. Book assumes a certain level of income and privilege (ie, if you live in a city, take trips to lake or mountains) and even what the author suggests as simple and cheap modifications to your home aren’t in reality especially if you change a lot at one time. Book also assumes children are all able bodied. My daughter is deaf and a very late walker. Surely she has encountered a wide variety of children with additional needs in her work as a Montessori teacher? Some perspective on applying the approach with children who fall outside the normal range of developmental milestones might have been helpful and more inclusive. The biggest disappointment however was the advice on sleep. I don’t know what qualifications the author has to make sleep suggestions but I was very surprised to find advice against feeding to sleep and encouraging self settling from birth. Whilst the author advises against cry-it-out alone, she does advocate a crying to sleep approach whilst you are in the room. This seems the opposite of the Montessori approach of ‘follow the child’. Forcing a child that wants to be cuddled to sleep to fall asleep alone seems the opposite of this and I for one doubt that I will look back on my child’s babyhood and wish I had sat on a chair and read in their room whilst they cried instead of rocking them to sleep.

526 people found this helpful

Paul bell

A very odd page marker!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 July 2020

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I recently received the Montessori toddler book. After reading a few pages I noticed a feminine pad was left between 2 pages!!!
I assumed I bought a new book but I guess it wasn’t?

114 people found this helpful

A very good book...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 October 2020

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I would recommend this book because it has provided me with some very useful tools for understanding and dealing with my wonderful 18 month old's behaviours. But, as a new father, this is a very short review due to the fact that I haven't slept for the last 2 years, and my ability to form coherent sentences begins to wane after a few minutes.

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Miss

Game changer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 May 2019

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This book has changed our lives for the better, pretty much overnight. I have an especially strong willed 16 month old, and while I feel I've been coping ok with some of the big toddler themes (ie. strong emotions, increasing autonomy) I've had a nagging sense that things didn't have to be quite so hard and that I wasn't really meeting my daughter's needs. This book has given me the tools to do exactly, and to meet my own needs as well. It's helped me to see how I can reorganise our home and life to make things more harmonious for all of us, and given me some very simple but incredibly effective techniques for dealing with some of our biggest challenges (such as nappy changes). It's beautifully written and put together - it really felt like a treat to read - and (like many of the best books about parenting, see also Philippa Perry) has given me some profound and constructive insights into myself as well as my daughter. After all, we're pretty much all toddlers on the inside, right? I don't think I had any idea how capable my child is before reading this book, nor how fun and satisfying both of us would find collaborating together on small everyday tasks. Today, for instance, we worked out how my daughter could climb into her big chair by herself, and used a stepladder, a small chopping board, a spreader and a (not very sharp) knife to make lunch together. Yes we had some tears and yes we had some wilful contrariness but these are part of the normal toddler experience. What we did not have is horrible meltdowns over unavoidable issues (nappy changes again) that left both of us feeling awful. And both of our overall moods seemed better throughout the day. This book has also helped me to understand and appreciate what she does at nursery more. I really love its emphasis on bringing your life into sync with your toddler's interests and growing abilities in small and sustainable ways. And the information is presented in such a memorable way - while I"m sure I'll read it again and again, I'm amazed at how much I've remembered and how easy it has been to implement the advice in all sorts of challenging toddler situations. Ok I've said enough but seriously - don't deliberate, just get this book.

82 people found this helpful

SJB

Good practical tips but idealistic and not always evidence based

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 January 2022

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I have mixed feelings on this book. I've skimmed most of it already, over a couple of days. It's an easy read and well set out book with lots of useful information about setting up a good environment for your little one to encourage independence and skill learning. You can easily dip in and out. However, not all the advice is in line with respectful/responsive/attachment/gentle parenting ethos, and I think this book needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

Positives:

Main things I like so far are the tips for setting up an environment that is accessible for toddlers and their learning; understanding sensitive learning periods; and respecting and being there for your toddler through all emotions. It's beautifully set out too.

Criticisms:

However, the chapter on sleep I didn't think was very good - firstly, the author advocates a form of sleep training ("disappearing chair") if the child is having sleep issues or not going to sleep alone and this is causing issues. This advice seems at odds with advice saying to be present with your child during tantrums or emotional upsets, and research has shown that withholding connection or comfort in the name of sleep training is not respectful (when the book talks about the importance of this a lot) and can also cause emotional harm. She also advises an eat-play-sleep routine for babies from birth, which is ridiculous, especially for breastfed babies. Much evidence shows that feeding on demand and feeding to sleep is very important for milk production and bonding, and that this is the biological norm. Strict feeding and sleep routines for a baby can really derail breastfeeding. She neglects the fact that temperament has a LOT to do with how a child sleeps and usually it's nothing to do with what the parent does. Sleep is developmental.

I also didn't like the emphasis on not giving 'praise'. This feels like a form of withholding/not following our parental instincts - any advice like this I am wary of. It's natural to want to praise our babies and kids when they do or learn something new. It feels prescriptive and unrealistic to try to withhold this natural instinct - and I feel a child would miss out on that spontaneous, loving reaction. Of course it's helpful to provide detail with the praise e.g. 'I love the way you used red for that flower', rather than just saying 'lovely picture' or 'good job/good girl' - but there is also no harm in giving simple praise at times, in my opinion.

A useful book in some ways, but don't feel you need to follow it word for word! Ultimately little kids just need us to be present and loving and responsive to their needs.

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