Recommended Reading

Montessori Philosophy 

• The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori
• The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori
• Montessori: A Modern Approach by Paula P. Lillard
• Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula P. Lillard
• Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius by Angeline S. Lillard

Montessori at Home

• Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home from Birth to Age Three by Paula P. Lillard and Lynn L. Jessen
• At Home with Montessori by Patricia Oriti

Cooperation and Discipline at Home

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
• Children: The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations–Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practical by Rudolf Dreikurs and Vicki Soltz 
• Redirecting Children’s Behavior by Kathryn J. Kvols
• Positive Discipline for Preschoolers For Their Early Years–Raising Children Who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful by Jane Nelsen Ed.D., Cheryl Erwin and Roslyn Ann Duffy

Other Great Reading

• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
• The Self Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance by Polly Young-Eisendrath
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Montessori Madness!: A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education by Trevor Eissler
• Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
• Your Child’s Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning from Birth to Adolescence by Jane M. Healy
• What’s Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot