Awakening Your Toddler's Love of Learning [Paperback]

Jan Katzen-Luchenta (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1999

Awakening Your Toddler's Love of Learning is an invaluable guide for creating harmonious relationships that are the cornerstone of effective learning environments.

Take a stroll down the road less toddled and discover:

How to communicate with your toddler.
How to avoid and resolve emotional conflict.
How to prevent and heal attention and speech challenges.
How to develop a teaching relationship with your toddler and create a supportive home learning environment.

Plus:

125 activities that advance your toddler's concentration, verbal skills, and fine motor development.

Awakening Your Toddler's love of Learning is for parents, extended families, preschool teachers, and anyone who wants to gain a simple understanding of how and when to realate to the toddler in a supportive, not destructive, manner.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...The author's story-telling ability and strong advocacy skills help the reader enter the world of the toddler." -- Rebecca Janke, The Public School Montessorian

"...loaded with lots of practical advice she can use to help my grandson develop into a happy, healthy youngster." -- The Arizona Republic

About the Author

Jan Katzen Luchenta is the director of a cozy Montessori toddler house in Phoenix, Arizona. Jan is an AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) certified toddler directress, consultant, and freelance journalist.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Emunah Publishing (July 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0966565142
• ISBN-13: 978-0966565140
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,370,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book for toddlers!, March 31, 2001

By 

J. Croft (Mount Shasta, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awakening Your Toddler's Love of Learning (Paperback)

This is an excellent book that not only gives insight on how to deal with toddlers but adds details on how to adapt the Montessori method within the home environment. I found the section "Designing a Home/School Environment That Supports Your Toddler" very enlightening and easy to achieve. This book can be utilized by both professionals and parents wishing to educate their toddlers at home. Aside from the 125 activities at the end of the book , exercises in improving language and other skills are also included.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Parents and Montessorians, November 15, 2002

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Kristen Jawad (Kirkland, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Awakening Your Toddler's Love of Learning (Paperback)

This book is easy to read. The author is Montessori trained and provides 125 activaties that you can do in your home or classroom. Even if you only implement half of her advice you will really be supporting your child in a practical way and you will love the results.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuine Montessori book for ages 15 to 30 months!, January 29, 2010

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Lisa "Lisa Nolan Montessori" (PETALUMA, US, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awakening Your Toddler's Love of Learning (Paperback)

Published in 1998, this is a nice book if you have a child under the age of three. It also has cute black and white drawings.

It is an easy read, and focuses mainly on the toddler years, and it is written by a trained AMI Montessori teacher.

Another great feature are the 125 (albeit brief) activities described to do at home or in a classroom. She also has a DVD that I recommend, "The Making of Great Little People" that was filmed in her Montessori toddler classroom.

If you want a genuine Montessori book for the 15 to 30 month age group (tots and toddlers), I highly recommend it!