The Montessori Home

If this book had existed before my daughter was born I wouldn't have had to read 8-10 others plus follow countless Instagram and YouTube accounts to distill down to this exact information! It's a practical, flexible, basic but thorough guide to using Maria Montessori's methods at home. You're not trying to make your home into a classroom; it's your home, and your own children. There's so much love, joy, and respect for children and families here, just like in Ashley's wonderful YouTube channel. She's not telling you to buy a bunch of specific toys or materials, just explaining the principles and offering many ideas for fulfilling those goals. If you're even a little bit curious about Montessori methods for your young children (beginning from infancy) I highly recommend this book. Follow the child :)

The Montessori Home by Ashley Yeh is a beautiful book full of pictures and step-by-step instructions on creating a Montessori environment within your home.

I am an Early Childhood Montessori Teacher of ten years working with children 3-6 years of age. This book captures the heart of what I try to establish within my classroom daily and the methods we teach within our school, including infants and toddlers.

I appreciate how Ashley breaks it down in creating an environment and includes toys, lessons/materials for academic learning at a young age, activities to build connections, and recipes. Young children are sponges gathering information from the world around them through their senses, so creating this environment at school and bridging it to home supports child development.

Teaching independence when children are young sets them up for success as they grow older, as I've seen with my students who are now entering middle school. Children want to do as much as they can on their own, leading them to build sequencing and order. Creating a hands-on environment within their personal space is the best way to accomplish this. In my classroom, everything is at their size to meet my student's needs, and having areas within your home, will also meet these developmental milestones within the child's sensitive periods.

I appreciate the knowledge surrounding the Montessori Methods to mainstream society so we can capture the heart and spirit within each child, the way Dr. Maria Montessori had hoped and worked so hard for. I thank Ashley for sharing her own experiences, and I know it'll connect to others, building a community for the next generation.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the early e-arc in exchange for an honest review. I'll definitely recommend this to my family and my students' parents.

This book was full of practical applications for how to incorporate Montessori principles into the home for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. I particularly loved that infants were included. I'll definitely be incorporating some of the ideas, while others weren't practical for my home or my lifestyle.

I particularly the section with images of educational Montessori style toys for each age range, as well as the idea with curating the number of choices for books and activities for your child and rotating the selection over time.

I've been a follower of Ashley's Youtube channel for years and was thrilled to receive this beautiful book! There is a good bit of overlap between the videos and the contents of the book, but I didn't mind this as it helped reinforce basic principles of Montessori, while offering a new format. The book is bright and beautiful, filled with color photos of Yeh's beautiful family, and is organized very well, perfect for referencing as your child grows. There were tons of activities based on the age group of the child, and ideas for how to incorporate the Montessori style into every aspect of your child's life at home. It is far beyond the beautiful minimalist toys that are all over social media, and this is the perfect guide to help parents implement the techniques from any age.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

This is a fantastic book on bringing Montessori into the home! There are many activities and concepts introduced through the book with an abundant array of pictures throughout. I really love how the author included photos of each activity for specific ages as well. The book really simplifies the method for any reader, especially those who are visual learners.