Top Reasons to Open a Montessori Kids Universe Franchise
Open an MKU Franchise Starting your own business, while exciting, can appear to be a daunting task at first. An aspiring business owner may find themselves wondering where to start or how to improve. Fortunately, the franchise model used by Montessori Kids Universe allows you to not only become the owner of your own business,...
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A Look into the MKU Steam Experience
MKU STEAM Experience In the modern era of education, an intense debate over whether the arts and humanities or science and math should reign supreme in schools has presented a challenge for educators across the nation. Fortunately, the time tested Reggio Emilia inspired Montessori Kids Universe curriculum places a unique focus on five areas of...
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All About Temper Tantrums
Dealing with preschool temper tantrums While shopping at the supermarket, you are startled by an ear-piercing shriek. It’s coming from a little girl wailing to buy the latest toy while her mother (tries to) ignore the embarrassing temper tantrum behavior. For a parent, this is not a new scenario. In fact, ask anyone and they...
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How to Balance Technology and Montessori
Balance Technology We live in a world overrun by technology and our kids are growing up in an era when technology is at the forefront of almost everything they do. While it’s clear that we will not be returning to the days of Leave it to Beaver, we have to be careful not to embrace...
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Lunchtime Learning – Prepare Your Child’s Lunch Montessori Style! 
A Montessori education strives to help children master the skills necessary to meet fundamental needs. Parents can support this objective at home with simple activities like helping children pack their lunch for school each day. Lunchtime Learning: A Montessori-Style Lunch You can support your children’s education by encouraging them to implement some of their newly-learned...
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The Importance of Free Playtime – It’s OK to Just Play
Importance of Free Playtime Is your child getting enough unstructured playtime each day? With the very scheduled lives that most children have these days, it’s important to fit in some free playtime for your preschooler. Not only does it give your child time to unwind, but her intelligence and creativity are further developed during free...
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How Poetry Engages Young Children
Poetry Engages Young Children Remember how much you loved poetry as a child? The songs, the nursery rhymes, the rhythm and meter of sing-songy poetry that engrained itself in your brain and that you can still recall to this day? Poetry is powerful, and in the Montessori classroom, that power is recognized. Poetry Speaks, a...
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How Behavior Can be Influenced by Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory Processing Disorder and behavior Behavior problems in school interfere with the educational process for all students in the classroom. If your child’s behavior is getting him in trouble at school, it may be due to issues with sensory processing disorder. What is Sensory Processing Disorder? Sensory processing disorder is a condition where the brain...
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Stop the whining!
Temper Tantrums: Stop the Whining! Research has confirmed whining as the most annoying sound to the human ear. Unfortunately, parents of preschoolers face the sound of whining on a regular basis.  Most agree that whining is a habit that they hope their kids will break soon. Have you ever wondered why kids whine? Is it...
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