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Podcast: Multilingual Montessori
Episode: 4. Merila, Monolingual Montessori Mom on Raising Bilingual Children
Description: In this episode, I speak with Merila, a mom of two who first learned about Montessori when she sent her older son to a Montessori school when he was 22 months old. Her boys are now 6 and 2.5, and we chat about the joys and challenges of parenting from a Montessori perspective, and how Merila went from thinking Montessori sounded kind of cultish to being, as she puts it, a “hardcore” Montessori mom.
I was particularly interested in interviewing Merila because she and her husband are both monolingual parents, born in the United States, but they made the decision to i...