TPP 049a: Simone Davies on Setting Up Your Home to Support Your Child's Growth
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday, I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
The easier you make it, then the more success they're going to have. So also the more success you have, the less nagging you have to do and the more independent the children are becoming. So we're basically using the environment to take some of our workload off because we're busy enough as we are. There's enough going on. So we always look to the environment, how it can do some of our work for us.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. And today I'm bringing back to the podcast, Simone Davis, a Montessori teacher and parent educator who runs a Montessori playgroup in Amsterdam for babies, toddlers and preschoolers up to four years old. She's also the founder of the Montessori Notebook, featuring free articles, downloads, and videos about how to bring more Montessori into your home. And incidentally, Simone also happens to be a dear friend and regular work buddy, and we meet up weekly to co-work over coffee, so I know she has lots of great things to share with our community.
I wanted to bring Simone back on the show today to talk about our spaces. Not metaphorically, but literally, the spaces in our home and how we can best design and set them up to support our differently wired kids. I've watched as Simone developed her virtual e-course, Setting Up Your Home Montessori Style, and I was struck by how the approach she talks about in her course directly relates to the things we can do in supporting our kids' development of those crucial executive functioning skills, like task initiation and time management and planning and organizing, as well as fostering independence. So that's what we're going to get into today. How to set up your home, your kitchen, the shoes and coat area, the bedroom, a homework space to support your child in fostering these skills.
I also have a special ask for you this week. As we're nearing our one year anniversary of the podcast, I've set a goal of having 50 ratings on iTunes. We are nearly at 40 right now, so still a great showing, but I would love to hit that 50 mark by our anniversary next month. So if you want to help me, it is super simple. Here's what you do. Just go to the Tilt Parenting podcast page on iTunes and at the top, click on ratings and reviews. You can then leave a rating with just the click of a button. And if you're feeling super ambitious and you want to leave a review, by all means, go for it. Thank you so much for considering and helping us reach this goal. And now let's get on with the show. Hey, Simone, welcome back to the show.
Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me again. So for listeners, you may remember Simone as being one of my very first guests on the podcast. I think it was episode five. And we had a conversation about strategies for staying calm in difficult situations. And because we both live in Amsterdam, we recorded that episode in my apartment. But today we decided to Skype. So we're Skyping across town. We're trying to get a little better audio quality. So hope that works out. As I said in my introduction, you are a Montessori educator. And because we're work buddies, I get to have a close-up look at all the great material you're creating, especially surrounding designing spaces and your program that you run, setting up your home Montessori style.
So... That's what we're going to be talking about today in some ways. But before we get into that, would you mind just taking a minute to tell listeners a little bit more about who you are, both personally and professionally? And as part of that, tell us a little bit about why you're so passionate about the concept of designing spaces.
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