Montessori Family Alliance Member Benefits
We have been a well-known trusted source of practical and reliable information, answers, and advice for families all over the world for 30 years. Whether you are:
- Simply looking into Montessori for the first time
- A family whose children are just beginning their Montessori journey
- A home-schooling family
- A teacher wanting to know more about Montessori
Or even a graduate of one of the world’s more than 22,000 Montessori schools
We’re here to help!
If you are not already a member of the Montessori Family Alliance, there are several membership plan options.
If you are reading this, you’re in exactly the right place.
Just keep reading.
Welcome!
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An Extensive Resource Library
Recordings of years of our Montessori Family-Life Webcasts
30 years of archives of Tomorrow’s Child, our Montessori parents’ magazine
Articles about Montessori at every level
Montessori at Home
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Tomorrow’s Child – The Montessori Family Magazine
Published four times a year.
Includes articles about Montessori today and current research.
Support your child’s Montessori education and bring Montessori home.
Recommended children’s books, toys, and family activities.
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Live weekly webinars on Montessori education and parenting & monthly wit&wisdom parenting zoom chats
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Discounts on Montessori Parenting Courses
MFA Members get significant discounts on Montessori parenting courses such as the Parenting Puzzle.
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A Unified Community through our MFA APP
The decision to choose Montessori education can be a hard one. Many people will not understand your decision. Membership to the MFA connects you with like-minded people from around the world who support your decision.
Become a Member of the Montessori Family Alliance Today
Annual Individual Montessori Family Alliance Membership
Includes digital issues of Tomorrow's Child- Our Montessori family magazine, Tomorrow’s Child, delivered digitally and in print 4 times a year. Our online parent resource library including thousands of articles and webinars on parenting and school topics, live weekly webcasts with recordings available to watch on your own time, book reviews for adults and children, a unified community through access to our private Facebook group, and discounts on the Parenting Puzzle, our online parenting course created by Lorna McGrath. Download our app to have a centralized location with all your benefits!
To order an individual subscription without membership in the MFA, CLICK HERE.
MFA School Group Memberships
Montessori schools can provide Montessori Family Alliance memberships to their families at a discounted price. Membership includes digital or print issues of Tomorrow’s Child magazine, an online parent resource library including thousands of articles and webinars on parenting and school topics, live weekly webcasts with recordings available to watch on their own time, book reviews for adults and children, a unified community through access to our private Facebook group, and discounts on the Parenting Puzzle, our online parenting course created by Lorna McGrath.
Inside US Print & Digital MFA School Group Membership
$25.00 | 50 copy minimum- Print editions of Tomorrow’s Child for all families, plus coupon codes granting free full membership to the Montessori Family Alliance—a value of $59 annually, +50 copy min. For any inquiry call Don at 941-729-9565 or email: dondinsmore@montessori.org.
Worldwide Digital Only MFA School Group Membership
$17.00 | 50 copy minimum- Provide families with the digital version of Tomorrow’s Child magazine, along with coupon codes to create free memberships to the Montessori Family Alliance.
A Glimpse Into The Members’ Library
Benefits of Fine-Motor Skills Development
When your child becomes a toddler, you may suddenly begin hearing about fine-motor skill development. There are many ways to develop fine-motor skills, and they are often discussed as if writing is the ultimate outcome. Yet, getting through a day without using your...
Providing Peace in the Pandemic
The Montessori Approach to Living Well in Anxious Times The Covid 19 pandemic has brought about so many feelings in all of us: fear, uncertainty, sadness, loneliness, isolation, confusion, a sense of accomplishment, a sense of failure, a lack of connection, a loss of...
Preparing an Early Childhood Learning Environment
Editor’s Note: We know that the authors of this article really meant it to help teachers remember how important setting up children’s environments is to maximize the potential of each child at each stage during the early childhood years. However, because of how...
Staff Picks From Our Bookstore
Montessori for Every Family
Lorna McGrath &
Tim Seldin
Montessori 101
The Montessori
Foundation Staff
The Parenting Puzzle
Lorna McGrath
The Montessori Foundation
How to Raise an Amazing Child
Tim Seldin
School Group Membership
If you represent a Montessori school, put your school in the spotlight and highlight your credibility and Montessori affiliations.
By partnering with the Montessori Foundation, and purchasing MFA Memberships for your families, you are lightening the load for your staff and yourself! We are here to answer the many questions your parents will and do have!
Membership in the Montessori Family Alliance was designed to strengthen the relationship between our families and schools. We are your outside voice. Our alliance reinforces the sense of community. Parents, in turn, feel confident in their decision to continue to enroll year after year.
Now is the perfect time to give your families the gift of membership in Montessori Family Alliance. If our partnership helps your school to retain just one more family a year than you would on your own, it will have returned your investment many times over.
Maria Montessori: In Her Own Words
What happened will always remain a mystery to me. I have tried since then to understand what took place in those children. Certainly there was nothing of what is to be found now in any House of Children. There were only rough large tables. I brought them some of the materials which had been used for our work in experimental psychology, the items which we use today as sensorial material and materials for the exercises of practical life.
I merely wanted to study the children’s reactions. I asked the woman in charge not to interfere with them in any way, as otherwise I would not be able to observe them. Someone brought them paper and colored pencils, but, in itself, this was not the explanation of the further events. There was no one who loved them. I myself only visited them once a week, and during the day, the children had no communication with their parents.
The children were quiet; they had no interference either from the teacher or from the parents, but their environment contrasted vividly from that which they had been used to; compared to that of their previous life, it seemed fantastically beautiful. The walls were white, there was a green plot of grass outside, though no one had yet thought to plant flowers in it, but most beautiful of all was the fact that they had interesting occupations in which no one, no one at all, interfered....
Maria Montessori