by As I write this, I sit on a plane to City (La Ciudad de Panama) with my Gringo husband who has never been to Central America. Granted, I’m a Gringo, too, but I’ve been there many times with my mom who is from Panama. Already, the questions from my Hubs have come at hardball speed. […]
Wordless Wednesday: Kids’ Drawings from Around The World
by “When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I’ve got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.” Ellsworth Kelly Award winning illustrator, Chris Riddell, advocates the importance of drawing with children. He even emphasize that drawing with children should be placed alongside reading a bedtime story. However, the […]
Raising World Citizens the Montessori Way
by What do Anne Frank, Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google founders), Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma (cellist), Helen Keller, Queen Noor of Jordan, George Clooney, and Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel Peace Prize for Literature winner) have in common? Besides their notable contributions to our world, they were all Montessori students. Today I’d like to share […]
Language and Music: Paying It Forward
by There are many things I am grateful for to my mother and music and language exposure is definitely one of them. Although I did not grow up in a bilingual family myself and started with my first language at the age of 9, I always had an easy time picking up languages and mimicking […]
Teaching Kids About the World Through Music
by Kids love music. You may have laughed as your baby happily bopped to the beat before he could walk, or perhaps you’ve noticed your toddler is drawn to playing the drums — or any object resembling drums — like a moth to a flame. As a piano teacher and a music educator, I could go […]