The Kavanaugh Report

As a very new 2, Gus is super into art and using art supplies. To be honest, he has more interest than any of my other kids did at this age...

Open ended play is amazing right? Your child takes, for example, a bunch of blocks and builds an amazing city with them. Then, takes out to...

Being mostly screen free as a family means that games are really important to us. We play a lot of board games starting at a young age. The...

If you follow me on Instagram, or even just read my posts regularly, you have probably noticed that Gus hangs out in his underwear A LOT. A...

A few days ago I posted a video of Gus using a wavy chopper to cut up some carrots for our dinner. Then, I got a bunch of questions on how...

Here is another part in my Montessori friendly play series! This has been so much fun to put together and I love these older baby toys! ...

At 25 months old, Gus has a lot of different interests. Toys are just one of them. He will sit and work with his materials for bits through...

Yesterday was a pretty typical Minnesota winter day here. Cold, icy, grey. We had been outside, we had been inside but we were all still in ...

A few days before Christmas our beloved water dispenser broke. Someone turned the spigot a little too hard and it snapped off. To be fair,...

Fairly often, people will ask me "How do you get Gus to sit still and work?" or "do you have any tips for getting my child t...

Being a Montessori parent is so much more than making pretty spaces or having the right things. It's often about how we interact with ou...

For most children, water is something they are interacting with on a daily basis. It becomes a wonderful opportunity for independence even ...

It's that time of year when so many of us feel the need to start fresh. To look at ourselves and our homes with new eyes and see where ...

Happy New Year! I'm starting 2019 the way I think a lot of parents start the new year - sort of lost in the chaos that was the last t...