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    Travel Ideas

    From our road trip up the California coast to Canada last year

    Our vacation is coming up. I can’t wait!

    Henry, Matt, and I will be flying into Albuquerque and then renting a car to drive to Taos for a wedding, then Denver to catch up with old friends, the Estes Park area to visit the B&B where we got married, and then to Breckenridge where we will be meeting up with Matt’s family for a week.

    Travel is so important to me. It’s one of the few things I absolutely need on a yearly basis. I look forward to my yearly vacation with Matt. Last year we took

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    The Importance of Letting Children Struggle

    A few weeks ago, Henry and I were at a party, and a woman was talking to us. She noticed that Henry was looking at her bracelet, so she held it up for him to get a better look at it. Once she did that, Henry started reaching out to touch it. At the time, his reach and grasp were still pretty shaky, but you could tell he was working hard to learn how to reach toward something and grab it. He was so focused on getting his hand to that bracelet. It was an amazing thing to watch! I love seeing children work so hard at something that is
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    Montessori Floor Bed Update

    The floor bed is one of the things about the Montessori approach to educating children that tends to shock people the most. “What? You don’t have a crib? Your baby sleeps on a mattress on the floor?”

    The idea is to set up the child’s environment in a way that helps him/her develop movement. The more freedom children have to move, the more they move. The more they move, the more they strengthen their muscles and develop themselves.

    Along these lines, we also try not to use common baby contraptions that limit movement, such as swings (since the movement is done onto the child) or infant seats (since the child’s

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