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What is Montessori?
Rather than explaining what Montessori is, I am offering an excerpt from an article that does a beautiful job of describing what Montessorians do. Maria Montessori's Decalogue is a set of 10 rules for adults working in a Montessori classroom. It is relevant to parents, grandparents, and caregivers of all types who strive to relate to children peacefully and respectfully in any environment.
I hope you will enjoy this expanded version of the Montessori Decalogue as written by The Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
The Montessori Decalogue
1. Never touch the child unless invited by him (in some way or another).
Unless there is a very strong reason to (like avoiding an accident, for example), one should never touch a child unless a child requests it. Picking up a child without the child's consent, even if in a playful manner, or grabbing her hand, pushing her, etc., should always be avoided. If children are engaged, looking at a book, working, playing, resting, the same principle applies. Children invite contact in many ways, and parents and adults in general, who work with children, know how to interpret the signs they send. It is important also to respect a child when she is angry and does not want to be touched or picked up.
2. Never speak ill of the child in his presence or absence.
Speaking ill of a child, or making negative comments about a child, either in the child's presence or absence, denotes lack of respect for the child. It also sets a frame of mind and denotes an attitude that is negative and conducive to confrontation—and not always open! Preconceived ideas often linger as negative thoughts and breed reactive behavior. If an adult falls into this trap, it is very easy for a lack of patience and negative attitudes to creep in and damage the relationship with the child.
3. Concentrate on strengthening and helping the development of what is good in the child, so that its presence may leave less and less space for what is negative.
If adults focus on negative behavior, children will feel inadequate. This will result in low self-esteem, and a self-fulfilling prophecy like behavioral patterns will take over. Negativity will become second nature. Instead, by focusing on what is positive, the child will feel safe and confident. Children are learning what is and is not acceptable behavior can and cannot be done, etc. They do not need punishments or rewards. Simply to be shown what is and is not acceptable, by adults that model appropriate behavior.
4. Be proactive in preparing the environment, take meticulous and constant care of it. Help the child establish constructive relations with it. Show the proper place where the means of development are kept and demonstrate their proper use.
If the child is presented with a prepared environment, there is little need for much more. Again, modeling appropriate behavior is essential. A child that is shown an orderly environment will likewise feel encouraged to keep it orderly. If a child has available manipulatives she can handle, play and work with, rather than things she cannot touch, she will feel at ease to explore the world around her. If objects are at reach, that the child may break or hurt herself with, she should be shown how to handle them, rather than told "don't touch!" A kitchen is a world full of wonder for a child! Cutting, cooking, stirring, pouring, etc., are all activities the child will want—and need!—to master in order to become independent. Include the child in as many activities as possible at home, from cleaning to cooking; there is enough to keep any child busy and engaged all day long.
5. Be ever ready to answer the call of the child who stands in need of you, and always listen and respond to the child who appeals to you.
There is nothing worse for a child than to feel insecure and ignored. Abandonment is a feeling no child should have to live with. "If a child asks for attention, then that child needs attention," stressed Montessorian Margaret Homfray. When people brush a child aside and say, "she just wants attention," that person is missing the point: a child only wants attention when she needs attention. Children who feel cared for and do not have to worry about being abandoned, even if for a short time, are far more likely to care for others and show concern for and trust others, than those who experience this sort of "cold shoulder" treatment. Also, "timeout" and "go to your room and stay there" approaches are also expressions of abandonment.
6. Respect the child who makes a mistake and can then or later correct it herself, but stop firmly and immediately any misuse of the environment and any action which endangers the child, its own development or that of others.
Avoid rushing to correct mistakes a child has committed. Children are learning to cope and function. They will persist and practice to their heart's content whatever skill they need to acquire, until they master it. If a child starts throwing things around and disrespecting the environment, by all means, stop her. Yet, explain why you had to stop her. Reason and listen to what the child may have to say. Maria Montessori said that "a child's first tantrums are the first ills of her soul." There is always a reason for everything. Try to bring the reason to light. Punishing, isolating the child, etc., will only feed her pain, and burry deep those reasons—she will learn to hide rather than communicate.
7. Respect the child who takes a rest or watches others working or ponders over what she herself has done or will do. Neither call her nor force her to other forms of activity.
A child that is idle is often not idle at all… Children need to be given space to find what it is they are interested in and want to do. Once they do, they pursue their interests with unrestrained passion and perseverance! A child that is observing other children or adults is also learning. If the child is resting, she is not being lazy and doing nothing just lying there—she is most probably processing information, observing, reflecting on something she did, or saw, or is planning on doing.
8. Help those who are in search of activity and cannot find it.
Be sensitive to the needs of the child including differentiating when apparent inactivity is inner activity, or in contrast, a child is simply lost. A child in search of activity and unable to find it is usually restless. If sitting or lying down, it can be noticed that she is not "engaged;" she is not resting, but simply lost and prostrated. There is a thin line that separates these two worlds. It is the adult's responsibility to observe carefully and find out the signs—often very different from child to child—that can reveal what the child is experiencing. Abandonment differs from rest and contemplation.
9. Be untiring in repeating presentations to the child who refused them earlier, in helping the child to acquire what is not yet her own and to overcome imperfections. Do this by animating the environment, with care, with purposive restraint and silence, with mild words and loving presence. Make your ready presence felt to the child who searches and hide from the child who has found.
A child may need to be shown the right way to do something, say a word, express her feelings or acquire any sort of new skill, many, many times. One should never grow tired of repeating it, such as reading the same bedtime story or singing the same jingle. Children seek perfection in all they do until they reach a level which meets their needs (not what the adult may think "perfect" is, or means.) To be always available but not intrusive is an art. When a child needs help, she will ask for it. When a skill has been acquired and the child no longer needs assistance, adults should respect the child's new acquired or reached level of independence.
10. Always treat the child with the best of good manners and offer her the best you have in yourself and at your disposal.
Children who are respected will learn to respect others. Giving the child the best one has to give helps the child learn that you are someone she can count on, and teaches her to also give others the best she has to give. It is important the way Montessori puts it, "the best you have in yourself," as if to say, always reach higher, but do not feel dismayed if you fall short, and "the best" that you can give is not the best you think or know you should give. If your best manners are not always what they should be—a common feeling parents harbor when children seem to be pushing their patience beyond the limits, do not lose heart. The way Dr. Montessori put it, is basically this: have realistic expectations towards the child, and yourself too. Give the best you have to give, but don't feel guilty if you fall short. Simply keep striving to improve and always do your best. If you commit a mistake, giving the child your best may well be recognizing it and apologizing. "Amy, Mommy got upset and shouted. That was not nice of me. I am sorry." Children also need to recognize mistakes, learn to apologize, and that parents are not always perfect.
These are basic principles. What Montessori strives for is to protect the child from all sorts of negative influences that can create deviations in the child's spirit and psyche. To preserve the natural curiosity of the child, help her find her interests, protect her passion for learning, foster it and let it grow in a healthy way. In this way, the child can contribute her best to society. This is conducive to world peace, as Dr. Montessori envisioned it, and Montessorians believe is possible. It takes passion, it takes commitment, and it takes working together.
- Excerpted from Montessori: Committed People with a Passion for Children by the Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
February in Indiana is tough. It's 28 days of Arctic cold, howling winds, and brown slush everywhere you turn. The air hurts your skin and the gray sky steals your hope. Do you know why February is only 28 days long? Because no one would survive if it lasted even one day longer. February is the Chuck Norris of our calendar year.
I think February brings out the worst in everyone, even the sweet little children at the Montessori school. So it's often in February when I remind myself that the primary purpose of preschool is socialization. Sure, our Montessori classrooms have these beautiful materials and teachers trained to present them, but our primary goal is for each child to develop naturally into a well-rounded and well-adjusted individual. And for that to happen, each child must learn many, many social skills. Here's a partial list. Lucky for me, blog inches are cheap!
Preschoolers do all of this really challenging work surrounded by 23 other children who are all trying to do exactly the same thing. (Twice that many, if enrolled for a full day.) Preschool can be very hard work!
Sometimes a child will do something inappropriate to another child and a well-meaning parent will ask me, "Did you tell them not to do that?" Of course. Every day our teachers remind children that hands are not for hurting and to use their words. But listening is not the way young children learn morals and social skills. (Although it IS the way they learn language.) Preschoolers learn by doing and that means that sometimes - lots of times, actually - they do inappropriate things. And gradually, they learn from them.
So, since young children are not born knowing the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior, and they can't simply follow our instructions, the grown-ups have to give them lots of opportunities to figure it out with other children. We must provide them with an environment that allows them to safely - with close supervision - make many, many bad decisions. In our preschool classrooms, the teachers expect inappropriate behaviors and respond to them consistently with each occurrence, knowing that they will lessen over time. A child's "bad" behavior might keep us on our toes, but it rarely surprises us.
And thank goodness for that! Imagine if doctors were shocked to see so many sick patients every day. Or if plumbers were bewildered by clogged pipes. Or firefighters were stymied when houses caught fire. They would not be very effective at their jobs. In order to be effective at my job as a teacher in a Montessori classroom of three to six-year-olds, I have to first: like children, and second: understand that all of the terrible things that children can do to each other are not failings, but simply a natural part of their development. A child who hits or bites or kicks is showing me that she is upset about something and has not yet learned to respond without hurting. It's my job to help her develop a new, appropriate response while doing my best to keep the other children safe.
I admit that my best isn't always enough. And it's not easy to watch these children suffer through the process of dealing with separation anxiety, or a friend's harsh words, or simple frustration at being unable to dress themselves. I love the children in my care and it hurts to watch them hurt themselves or others when their anger literally comes out of their fingers and toes.
Recently, I was sitting next to two children who had been playing very actively all morning. I will call them Danny and Sandy. They were having trouble working together but they just couldn't stand to be away from each other. They are each learning how to be friends with someone who drives them a little bit crazy. I stayed close to them so I could intervene and help them resolve the issues that were bound to arise when things got out of hand.
At group time the children got to talking about which animals they liked the most. Danny laughed and said, "My favorite kind of animal is Sandy." I turned to them just as Sandy pulled back her arm and punched Danny squarely in the face. Danny was really surprised. He thought maybe he was hurt for just a moment, but quickly regained his composure.
Seeing that he wasn't hurt, I said, "I don't think Sandy liked it when you called her a name. What do you think?"
"I was just saying it to myself," he said.
"Well, I'm pretty sure she heard you," I responded.
Having made herself clear already, Sandy had nothing to add.
Did Danny deserve to be hit? No. But he did need to know that Sandy didn't like the way he treated her. Should Sandy have hit him? No. But she did need to let him know that it wasn't okay to call her a name. Did either of them "get in trouble" by me? No. We talked about other possible responses and there was no more name-calling or punching that morning. But it's not over. I will keep those two on my "Watch List" for the rest of the year and when I hear their voices get loud or see them chasing each other I will do my best to be right there to help them work through their next disagreement. That's my job. Not to punish or shame children, but to help them learn to express themselves and to be good listeners and… ah, just refer to the previous bulleted list.
I have read about preschools with zero tolerance policies for hitting and biting. My question is always, "Where will they send all of those children?" If a 4-year-old is banned from preschool because she has not yet learned to get along with others, what's next for her? Reform school? Prison? Dr. Phil?
Preschool is THE BEST place for young children to learn how to get along with others. Sometimes it's tense, sweaty, gritty, even frightening work. But the mis-steps children make in preschool prepare them for a future that is much less secure. A time when they won't be surrounded by loving adults waiting to step in and guide them to resolve problems peacefully. A time when using hands to hurt can have lifelong consequences.
I am not complacent about children hurting each other and I put myself between thrown punches and sweet little faces every time I can. But I also know that "bad" behavior is not a fault in a child, it signals an important learning opportunity. A child who lashes out is showing us how we can help her. Maria Montessori put it this way,
"The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty. Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with."
"The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty. Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with."
Please try to be patient with your children and other people's children as we all wait for the Earth to travel just a little further around the Sun. February will become March, winter will become spring, and children who are not yet peaceful will develop a little more self-control and gradually, gracefully learn to cope with the many frustrations of being a small child.
Thanks for reading,
~ Heather
Grace's first day of Montessori preschool, 1997.
Last summer, my 19-year-old daughter was getting ready to move into her first apartment. I was excited for her to have the chance to live on her own and had been setting aside household items that I thought she could use. One day, after admiring the "steal" of a chair I had found at Goodwill, she asked me, "Aren't you sad that I won't live here anymore?"
"Well, honey," I said, "I always imagined that you would grow up and move out of the house. That was our goal all along for you to be an independent, self-sufficient person."
"I know," she said. "But I'm kind of sad that I won't be sleeping here anymore."
I reminded her that she had hardly slept at home at all since she started college last year. She lived in the dorm, four hours away from home and we often didn't hear from her for days.
"Yeah, but this is different. I just can't believe this won't be my home address anymore. Are you going to change the garage door code?"
A-ha! Then I figured it out. She was worried about cutting the cord from the house where she grew up. I had been concerning myself with making sure she was comfortable "out there" and she was worried she would no longer be welcome back at home.
It occurred to me that not much has changed between that day and the day sixteen years ago when we were preparing to send her to preschool here at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. Back then we were so excited to help our "baby" pick out a new lunch box and indoor shoes but we had little idea what to do to help prepare her (or ourselves) emotionally for this new chapter. She sailed through preschool and is now working through nursing school just fine, but we have learned a lot since then. Today I am sharing some tips and advice gathered from teachers and parents here at MSGL to help you and your child prepare for the first days of preschool.
Talk about school - mindfully.
Talk with your child about preschool when he is in the mood. Maybe he will bring it up or you can start the conversation, just don't push too hard. If your child seems "done" with the conversation or is becoming anxious, let the topic drop until later. And be honest about your feelings when you do talk about school. Some children worry that their parents will be sad or lonely when they are gone. When you say, "I am going to miss being with you in the morning, but it makes me happy to know you will be enjoying yourself at school," it lets him know that you will miss him but you are confident that school is a good place for him to be.
Check out the new environment.
MSGL's Parent Work Day is Saturday, August 16th. This is a great time to get familiar with the school and classroom environments and to be part of the school community. Children are encouraged to help clean lockers, pull weeds, and load and unload wheelbarrows full of mulch right alongside their parents and new classmates. And, each family member's time counts towards your volunteer hours requirement.
You will have another opportunity to get familiar with the school when your child attends her New Student Orientation visit on Monday, August 18th. This is her first opportunity to see her teachers and classmates in her new classroom. She can put her indoor shoes in her locker, locate her cubby and extra clothes box, and see where the bathroom is. The whole family can attend the Parent Orientation later that evening and maybe your child can give a tour of her new classroom.
Make new friends.
You will receive a class list via email in August. Consider contacting a few families on the list to set up a playdate before school starts. Even if you can't get together with any other families, you and your child can look over the names on the list together. You may discover that one of his classmates lives on your street or maybe someone has the same name as a sibling or a friend.
Help her dress for success.
Our Montessori classrooms are prepared to encourage your child's independence and you can help by providing your child with shoes and clothing that she can put on and take off by herself. Belts, suspenders, and jumpsuits look smart but they can be difficult for your child to use successfully. Provide your child a choice of clothing that allows her complete independence in her self-care routines. And please remember that preschool is a time to jump in and explore. Paint, snack, sand, and dirt from the garden can stain your child's clothing, so please send her to school in clothes that can stand to get dirty.
Plan a morning routine.
Now is a good time to do a mental run-through of your morning routine. Consider how much time your child needs to wake up, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Allow time for packing lunches, finding coats and shoes, and getting on the bike or in the car. Then add a few extra minutes. Parents and children who are not in a rush tend to have much better experiences at drop-off. Some families even do a few "practice runs" in the summer to see if they can get to school and work on time.
Create a goodbye routine.
Discuss with your child how you each want to say goodbye at drop-off. Some families say, "After you put on your inside shoes and put away your lunch box, we will walk to the classroom and I will give you three hugs and two kisses before I go to work." Some children like to wave to dad out the window and some parents leave their children with specific plans for what they will do after school. "Sonia is picking you up today" or "we are going to the Farmer's Market on our bikes after school today." Children have so little control over their daily lives that they appreciate at least knowing what is happening and when.
And while we're talking about goodbyes, let's take just a moment to consider the specter of separation anxiety.
What if my child cries when I walk away?
Separating from your child that first time can be heart-breaking, but remember - it's only for a few moments. The majority of children who are sad when they separate from their parents are able to calm themselves and choose an activity within a few minutes. If you have gone through the goodbye routine and are finding it hard to turn around and walk away, ask your teacher for help. Sometimes parents say, "Please help me. I need to leave." That is the teacher's sign that she needs to hold your child's hand or pick her up so that you can walk away. Teachers don't want to step in before you are ready to go but they are happy to help when you ask them.
The best thing you can do for your child at drop-off is to be consistent and walk away when you say you will. Lingering tends to just prolong the heartache for the parent and the child. The first few times you drop your child off may be difficult, but trust that with consistent repetition you and your child will develop a peaceful good-bye routine.
Talk with the teachers.
Talk with your child's teachers about how the adjustment period is going. The teachers help dozens of children adjust to school every year but this may be your first time. They expect you will have questions and concerns. Email is a great way to communicate with your child's teachers and all of the contact information is available on the classroom web page at Msgl.org.
Help your child talk about his day.
If this is the first time your child has been away from home you will no doubt be very eager to know what he did all day. Unfortunately, preschoolers often say they "did nothing" or "just played." A lot of things happened between the time you dropped him off that morning and when you picked him up several hours later, but he might not yet be able to give a sequential list of his activities. Here are some ideas to help your child tell you about his day.
Take care of yourself!
The best thing you can do during these last few weeks of summer is to give you and your child the gift of a regular bedtime that allows enough sleep to wake up refreshed and ready for the big days ahead. Fill up with a good breakfast each morning and be extra patient with your child and especially with yourself. Parenting preschoolers, like college students, is hard work and there is no right way to do it. Follow your heart and follow your child, and in sixteen years, or so, you will be very proud of the people you have both become.
Cooper the cat doesn't mind the post-holiday mess.
Is your house a mess? Mine is.
Even though my youngest daughter is 20 years old, my post-Christmas house looks no different than it did 15 years ago when she and her sister had lots of toys. Now, we no longer have Barbie dolls and Lego pieces lying about, but we have plenty of grown-up projects waiting to be finished over our remaining vacation days.
Sorting through all of this stuff today got me thinking about how difficult it can be to share space with others without resenting the mess those "others" leave behind. I want my daughters to be able to work together on the puzzle they picked out, and I'm happy they still (mostly) enjoy each other's company, but I don't want the puzzle to still be on the kitchen table next week.
Now that my girls are grown up they are able to respect and care for the spaces we all share. I know that puzzle will be put away before I have to ask, but when they were little it was a different story. I was constantly nagging them to clean up. And the need to nag them really frustrated me. Perhaps you can relate? The most common question parents have after observing their children in our Montessori classrooms is, "I see she puts everything away when she's done using it at school. Why doesn't she do that at home?"
Children put their work away in a Montessori classroom because everything in the classroom is designed to make that an easy thing to do. For example, lockers are child-sized so the children don't need help hanging up their coats. The daily schedule is consistent, so the children are not surprised when it's time to put their work away. And, when a child's work is very important to her and she cannot finish it all today, she puts her name tag on it to remind everyone that she will be working on it first thing tomorrow morning. Also, the guidelines for the classroom are the same every day and everyone follows them (eventually) so cleaning up is just a normal part of the day.
A nametag on a child's unfinished activity shows ownership and that the child's work is valued.
If you would like to learn how to use these and other Montessori practices at home, please join us for the upcoming "Bringing Montessori Home Parent Development Course on Practical Life" on Wednesday, January 27th from 6 to 8pm. This event is open to the public so you can invite your friends and you can follow the link above to sign up online. Learn how to improve household organization by creating child-friendly spaces and nurturing your child's independence in the areas of self-care and food preparation.
Ian vacuming.
In the meantime, check out these articles that offer alternatives to nagging kids to clean up. In "Here's an Idea...Don't Clean Up!" Rachel Cedar invites us to look at a child's play as his work, much as we do in our classrooms.
In "Why I Stopped Asking My Kids to Clean Up," this mom describes what happened when she stopped resenting clean-up time and allowed her kids to follow her lead.
Finally, Sandra Gordon offers sound advice for teaching children to take on different household tasks based on their age and level of ability in this post for The Children's Trust.
Do you have ideas to share about living with and cleaning up after your family? Please share them in the comments below!
A child explores the knobbed cylinders.
"Gradually the children begin to concentrate. One day one child, another day two or three children. After they have concentrated the children are different. They become detached and work for themselves. The disorderly children begin to love order. They all become so orderly that disorder is an extraordinary thing." - Maria Montessori, The Child, Society, and the World
"Gradually the children begin to concentrate. One day one child, another day two or three children. After they have concentrated the children are different. They become detached and work for themselves. The disorderly children begin to love order. They all become so orderly that disorder is an extraordinary thing." - Maria Montessori, The Child, Society, and the World
"Normalized" is the word Maria Montessori coined to describe children in their natural state. She believed that a "normal" child is one who is able to focus on activities that interest him and, through these experiences, he constructs his personality. A normalized classroom is one in which the children interact peacefully while exploring activities that introduce them to the world. Montessori described a normalized classroom this way,
"A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without commiting any rough or rude act, would seem to be a classroom very well disciplined indeed." - The Montessori Method.
"A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without commiting any rough or rude act, would seem to be a classroom very well disciplined indeed." - The Montessori Method.
At the beginning of the year, Montessori Toddler and Preprimary classrooms are far from normalized. Some children shout, wander the room, and maybe even throw objects or dump materials on the floor. There is crying and spilling. Messes are made and not cleaned up. Disagreements arise. Those first few weeks can be wild, indeed! In traditional educational methods, teachers might respond to these behaviors with reprimands and punishments. In Montessori classrooms, the teachers respond with redirection to purposeful work.
For example, when a new three-year-old is wandering the room and disturbing the work of others, a teacher will take him by the hand and present a new material to him. If he has shown an interest in counting then we might present the Hanging Bead Stair. When this work is completed, we assist him in finding another activity that calls to him.
While polishing the sailboat, a child tunes out everythiing else around him.
Whatever the activity the child is redirected to, the aim is always the same: to develop concentration. Concentration is the key to a child's natural development and all learning takes place in a state of concentration. We can think of ourselves in our adult lives to get a better understanding. When you need to study for your GRE exam, what do you do? Do you head to a busy shopping mall to work on your laptop in the food court with your friends, or do you choose a quiet place? If you need to paint a room in your home, do you do it in the afternoon when the children are busy around your feet or do you save it for those glorious, quiet mornings when they are at school? Adults relish those moments when they can concentrate and really focus on their work without interruption. Children also relish those moments, but they must first know what concentration feels like.
This is what a Montessori classroom does: it provides an environment where children are free to concentrate - without interruption - on work that is essential to their development. A child who is excited and distracted by all the activity around him will transform into a peaceful, thoughtful individual when he is able to concentrate on a work he enjoys. Because concentrating and being in control of his body feels better than thrashing around wildly and causing mayhem, he continues to seek out other activities that allow him to feel this way.
Since concentration is the ultimate goal of every activity in our classroom, we are reverent of it when it appears and we do not interrupt it for any reason. If all learning occurs during a state of concentration, it would be illogical to interrupt a child's concentration in an attempt to "teach" her something. Corrections, points of interest, fixing a lock of hair that has fallen over her eye, picking up the pencil that rolled off the table, reminding her to wash her forgotten snack plate - we must do none of these things. In fact, when a child begins to concentrate on an activity, our job is to quietly step away and behave as though we are not in the room.
"The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it." - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
"The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it." - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
Dressing the baby doll and fastening its clothes requires great concentration. Some children choose this activity nearly every day.
Eventually, in a few weeks or even months, the classroom has been transformed from a noisy, chaotic scene into a peaceful, happy place to learn and play. We have seen this transformation begin in our classrooms. The children are beginning to put their belongings in their lockers and walk quietly into their classrooms. They greet their friends warmly, but not loudly. They choose work, complete the work, and put it away when they are finished. They choose to work with a friend or by themselves. They tap us on the shoulder when they have a question. They pour their own water for snack and wash their dishes when finished. They use the toilet without assistance (although assistance is always available.) They are also preparing to read, write, and count to 1000 - but when you are a young child, those accomplishments are of secondary importance compared to the ability to control one's body and interact peacefully with friends.
Your children always benefit from opportunities to concentrate on an activity. You can provide these opportunities at home by providing space and, most importantly, time for them to focus on just one thing. Maybe painting with watercolors, washing the breakfast dishes, watering the plants outside, looking at the spider web by the front door - let her look and explore for as long as she wishes. Be available to answer questions, but don't obey your urge to jump in and explain everything you've ever heard about spiders or tell her all about color theory. Let her concentrate and formulate her own ideas and questions. When her curiosity is satisfied and she is ready to turn her attention elsewhere, you may notice that she looks refreshed and relaxed. This is a sign that she is learning and making new connections in her brain! Dr. Montessori observed that, "The child who concentrates is immensely happy."
Do you have a story about concentration from your life or your child's life you would like to share in the comments below? We would love to hear about it.
May you find yourself concentrating and immensely happy in the week ahead. Thanks for reading.
~ Heather
An MSGL preprimary student prepares carrots at home using a chopper and cutting board of her own.
Dozens of MSGL students are enjoying increased independence at home thanks to the "Bringing Montessori Home" parent development night held January 21, 2015. Thirty parents and grandparents attended the 1 ½ hour event that offered live demonstrations of Montessori-inspired activities children can do at home as well as hands-on activities, and an introduction to the Montessori philosophy.
Small groups of parents rotated through three different classrooms to observe and take part in presentations. Dena Saunders and Emily Frazier presented Care of Self and Care of the Environment. Getting dressed, caring for plants and pets, and cleaning up spills were some of the topics covered. Dena elicited "oohs and aahs" from one group when she demonstrated how to use masking tape to make a square on the floor so a child can easily sweep spills into a dust pan.
Angie Shamo and Machelle French demonstrated how to put together a few simple art activities on a shelf at home for when a child wants to work creatively and independently. The cutting strips, which consist of thin, sturdy paper strips on a tray with a pair of scissors, allow the child to practice cutting safely and successfully. Another suggestion was to offer just three colors of watercolor paints at a time - in the beginning - so a child can successfully create a painting without all of the colors mixing into brown. Families were also given the school's popular recipe for making play dough at home.
Many parents tried their hands at peeling and chopping carrots and peeling clementines in the food preparation class led by Anita Trent and Ana Ramirez. Each activity was arranged as it could be in the home, including child-sized tools. Hand-washing and serving etiquette were also discussed as these are important aspects of food preparation for young children. While one parent offered sliced carrots to the group, Anita said, "Imagine how it feels for your child to serve you just like you have always served your child."
After the presentations, many parents said they were excited to try these activities at home with their children. They also felt that some of the things their children were already doing at home, such as preparing a salad and feeding the fish, meshed nicely with the Montessori philosophy.
Each family received a selection of child-sized items to use at home.
Each family in attendance received a materials bag containing a child-sized vegetable peeler and chopper, a small pitcher, a dust pan set, cutting strips and scissors, child-sized sponge and towel, and a hook to hang the child's coat or book bag at a level where she can reach it. Families also received a custom-made photo book - created by the teachers - that reviews materials covered in the presentations as well as offering additional ideas and resources.
Materials bags and books are still available for purchase in the office for $10.
Thank you to everyone who attended! MSGL plans to offer "Bringing Montessori Home" again next year and will include new activities and take-home materials.
Children at work in the Montessori Elementary class.
October is observation month at our Montessori school. Now that the classrooms have been up and running for six weeks and the children are mostly adjusted to being away from their parents, we invite the parents to spend 15 minutes in the class just observing to see what their children's days are like. Parents are given a clipboard with an observation sheet that asks some general questions about what they see. After class, the teachers read over the observation sheets and respond to any questions or concerns the parents may have at the upcoming Parent/Teacher Conferences. Observation month is offered again in April.
Parent observations are important to the teachers because they keep us focused on our own observations. "I'm seeing that this child rarely chooses to work by himself. I wonder if his parents will see the same thing? Is that how he is at home or only at school?"
Observations are important to parents because they can serve as an informative window into a child's day. "I didn't realize she had so many friends at school. Does she ever work by herself?"
Observations are also important to the children because every child enjoys when Mom or Dad come to visit. "Mom's at MY school watching ME work??? Awesome!" Being a part of your child's day promotes good feelings and almost guarantees terrific dinner conversation.
Children at work in a Montessori preprimary classroom.
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Children working in the Montessori toddler classroom.
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Nach der Editionsfolge zu urteilen, hat die neue "Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe" erheblich an Schwung gewonnen: Symphonie Nr. 1 op. 68 (1996), Klavierquintett op. 34 (1999), Doppelkonzert op. 102 (2000) sowie zuletzt Symphonie Nr. 2 op. 73 (2002). Dabei haben weder die Sorgfalt und Qualität des Notentextes noch die Lesbarkeit bzw. Übersichtlichkeit von Einleitung und Kritischem Bericht gelitten, wie der hier zu besprechende Band eindrucksvoll beweist.
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… the appearance of each volume of the new Brahms complete edition published by G. Henle Verlag is an important event. Especially welcome, however, is the recent publication of Brahms's 1887 Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra in A Minor, op. 102, … as this work has never been the subject of a modern scholarly monograph. … Readers will be grateful for the generous quotations of early reviews, as the sources from which they are drawn are not widely available outside Germany.
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Developers on the Xbox 360 Indie Games Channel can now control their own release dates, reports Giant Bomb. Before this week's update, game developers submitted to the peer review for approval, after which it would go live. Now developers can halt a game once it's ready to go live, to allow time to drum up support.
While good news for developers, Microsoft didn't tell the indie community about this impending change until it was active. One developer, Jason Wishnov, just launched a RPG-rhythm game hybrid called Sequence only four days before the new feature became available. "I had a hell of a time coordinating a traditional marketing blitz when I was literally unable to tell when my game would be available to the public," he said. "The XBLIG team isn't exactly great at keeping us informed of pending developments."
The lack of structure impacted the indie games late last year, when developers tried to band together for the Winter Uprising. The games were loosely set to come out sometime in December, without formal dates. "We basically had this 'the games will most likely come out in winter' approach," said James Silva of Dishwasher fame. "If we could get all of the games approved and then publish them on a well-publicized official schedule, it would look tons better."


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I've got two different rather odd pains to add to the usual mix at the moment! One is a burning pain that I get intermittently in my spine, a few vertebra down from my neck. It's not too bad, just a bit odd, a bit burny and a bit tingly. Bizarrely, my physio thinks this is a sign of a bit of stiffness. Does anyone else get stiffness manifesting as burning?! Well, she's given some exercises for flexing the upper thorax, and if they work then I guess she's right.
The other one is that, having found ultrasound fantastically helpful for ages now, I'm suddenly finding it incredibly painful on my acromioclavicular joint. (Excuse my showing off my knowledge of joint names – it took ages for my physio to teach me this one and I rarely get the chance to use it … it's the little insignificant (until it hurts) joint between the shoulder and color bone, right at the front.) It starts off alright and then it very quickly gets incredibly sore and painful. Physio says she's come across this happening before but she doesn't know why, and she wonders if it's just a bit more inflamed than usual.
I hope it's NOT more inflamed than usual. Did I speak to soon about averting a flare? Today certainly didn't help on the stress reduction front – all clients want their work now (if not last week), and one thought I could proofread 90,000 words in two weeks. Well, I could if I had nothing else to do … grrrr… Oddly enough I feel more stressed now with both computers working than I did yesterday with both computers not working. Does this say something about computers, I wonder?
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I used to get burning in my upper back when I worked a desk/computer job. Had a lot of neck and between the shoulders in the back pain. Getting more ergonomical with the chair and the keyboard helped. I do not recall if any of the burning was directly over the spine though. Between readjusting everything and then I guess getting on pred/nsaids/dmards, much of that went away. I still get some problems but change in work helped soem of that.
I get aching in that part of the shoulder too. Never done ultrasound on it. Wonder if it would hurt like yours. Hope you get to the bottom of it.
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Economics Ph.D.: Weatherholt is Exceptional
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Twelve years ago, Carlos Asarta was a finalist for the Nebraska Student-Athlete of the Year Award. An accomplished swimmer from Spain, he served as president of Nebraska's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in 2000-01. Today, Asarta is a Ph.D. associate professor of Practice in UNL's Department of Economics. As a faculty member who has taught more than 6,000 students over the past six years, Asarta is certain of one thing. "Mary Weatherholt," he said, "is the most exceptional student-athlete I have ever had the pleasure to teach. She's an intelligent, applied, involved, personable and polite student-athlete leader who deserves recognition for every accomplishment."
Arriving at Nebraska as a 17-year-old freshman tennis star from Shawnee Mission, Kan., South High School, Weatherholt realized what she had to do to excel – be an expert in time management, balance various athletic, academic and life skills responsibilities, be a good team player, develop and hone her leadership skills and prove she could work hard and be competitive every day.
Weatherholt met those goals and earned the highest individual honor a Nebraska student-athlete can receive. She also became the first Husker in history to sweep the top academic honor as the Student-Athlete of the Year, plus win the Heart & Soul Award, the top annual honor bestowed in Life Skills. Less than a week after that double-barreled feat, Weatherholt led the Huskers to their first regular-season conference tennis title in 35 years. Sunday's 4-0 win over Wisconsin enabled Nebraska (21-4 overall and 10-1 in the Big Ten) to share the league championship with No. 6-ranked Michigan. Weatherholt and fellow senior Patricia Veresova are No. 4 nationally in doubles with an 18-1 record. Weatherholt also ranks No. 11 nationally in singles with 22-1 record. That includes an 11-0 Big Ten mark that should allow a repeat conference player of the year honor.
Weatherholt Learns Five Valuable Lessons
One of Weatherholt's favorite college professors was not surprised. In 2012, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN) named Asarta the Outstanding Educator of the Year for teaching classes with 60 or fewer students. Having spent most of his childhood moving around France and Spain, Asarta moved to America and went on to earn three degrees at UNL. He takes great pride in going the extra mile to learn his students' names and to equip them with the tools they need to succeed.
Weatherholt is in Asarta's "extraordinary" student category. He marvels at the perfect score she achieved on the Principles of Macroeconomics, a 200-level course designed to introduce students to macroeconomics and prepare them for further training. She also had a perfect attendance record and completed all optional homework assignments. She did equally well in another 200-level econ course, plus a 300-level course on theory that required courses in calculus and statistics. "Mary earned the only perfect score in her class and was in the top 2 percent of students overall," Asarta said. "She is truly an outstanding student, and an equally outstanding athlete."
As a freshman in 2009, Weatherholt was named the Big12 Conference Freshman of the Year in Tennis. In 2012, she was named the Big Ten Women's Tennis Athlete of the Year. Weatherholt, 21, achieved a GPA of 3.87 while juggling priorities. She believes that intercollegiate athletics taught her five lessons that will be helpful throughout the rest of her life:
1) Athletics taught Weatherholt to respect authority. "Since your coaches are with you for years," she said, I learned to trust and support their decisions and focus only on what I can control and what I can do to be the best player I can be for them and for my teammates."
2) Athletics taught her that relationships are the most important ingredient in life. "They're important for both success and joy, and forgiveness and humility are vital for close relationships to thrive," she said. "At one point, one of my teammates and I didn't get along, and it affected the whole team chemistry, dynamics and success. When we forgave each other and mended our relationship, it helped us to have the best season in school history and have more fun as a team than we've ever had."
3) Athletics taught her that success goes beyond talent, smarts and ability. "It's about attitude and effort and loving and caring for one another – in sports and in the real world," she said. "A cohesive team cares about each other, has the same goals and is incomparably stronger as a group rather than just a bunch of individuals."
4) Athletics taught her about overcoming adversity and hardships. "When I tore my knee my junior year, rehab was painful and not being able to compete was excruciating," she said. "I learned how to have a positive attitude despite what was thrown my way. I learned how to be the best teammate off the court and how to motivate, inspire and help my teammates, even though I couldn't play. The injury taught me how dependent I really am."
5) Athletics taught her how important community is. "From coaches, teammates and other athletes to trainers, doctors and staff in Academics, Life Skills and Compliance, I had more care and support than I could have fathomed," she said. "From security and training table workers to athletic directors, I felt like part of the Husker family. I've learned how valuable people are, and those connections run deep. They provide the backbone of life."
Bottom line, Weatherholt learned that in athletics, "it really isn't about me or what I've done or can do to help myself," she said. "It's about giving my best effort and having the best attitude I can have in all areas of my life, whether it's to glorify God, represent the University, achieve team success or help as many people as possible. I am so grateful to be a student-athlete at Nebraska. It has formed me into the person I am."
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"Buying a car sucks," Scott Painter says. "It's something that most consumers fear."
Back in the '90s, Painter started a company to try to change this. "The name of the company was Cars Direct," he says. "The mission was to sell cars directly."
Painter wanted his company to build virtual dealerships that would let people go online and buy cars. But after talking with a few car execs, he realized nobody would even consider his idea.
Painter was stopped by a web of state laws that make it very, very difficult to change the way cars are sold. Laws like Alabama statute 8-20-1-13:
Limitations on cancellations, modification, terminations and non renewals of franchise relationship.
Almost every part of the car buying process is enshrined in laws like this one. They restrict where new dealerships can open, giving dealers the exclusive right to sell within their territory. This makes it almost impossible to create an online dealership.
What's more, the the laws make it very hard for manufacturers to close exiting dealerships. Manufacturers don't have leverage over dealerships if they want them "to provide good customer service, low prices, nice facilities, or anything else," says Yale economist Fiona Scott Morton. "That [dealer] gets to stay as long as he wants, and if he does a bad job, that's just what he does," she says.
Car dealers argue that the laws are necessary to protect dealers' investment, and to protect the jobs of people who work at car dealerships.
"If you just take our organization alone, we employ over 2,000 people," says Tammy Darvish, who runs a group of auto dealerships and sits on the board of the National Automobile Dealers Association. "That's 2,000 families throughout greater Washington that are dependent on us continuing our business operations."
There are plenty other businesses employ lots of people but don't have so much protection from state laws.
That may partly be due to the fact that car dealers have a lot political power. Dealers contribute a big share of state sales tax revenues — as much as 20 percent in some states — and they tend to be big local employers. That makes state and local legislators listen.
Scott Painter now runs a company called true car...that tries to ease the process of buying a car. He's now trying to work with dealers not around them.
"There is no argument by which franchise law goes away," he says. "That is purely a fantasy conversation.
Companies like Tesla, Auto Nation, Costco and even many dealers are pushing to innovate from within the system as it is. All the people I talked to for this story — Tammy Darvish, lawyers for the auto industry, and Scott Painter himself — aid a friendlier, more rational car buying experience would come eventually. But it won't come without your local car dealer.
Every year, 14 million Americans put themselves through a process they do not consider fun.
KATHY CHAMPAGNE: It makes me feel manipulated.
TIM NAYAR: I hate the haggling. I hate the lost weekends.
MATT YUEN: I feel stupid, weak and powerlessness, I think. I want to get out of there.
CHAMPAGNE: It also takes forever.
BLOCK: It is buying a new car. And experts confirm what we just heard from Kathy Champagne, Tim Nayar and Matt Yuen, buying a car is one of the most stressful economic decisions most of us will ever make.
Sonari Glinton, with NPR's Planet Money Team, explores why the process hasn't gotten easier.
SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE: Back in the 1990s, a young entrepreneur named Scott Painter looked at how much people hated buying cars and thought: It doesn't have to be that way. So he started a company to fix it.
SCOTT PAINTER: The name of the company at the time was Cars Direct and the mission of the company was to sell cars directly. Buying a car sucks and it's something that most consumers fear.
GLINTON: Now, this was the 1990s and a lot of things were being sold over the Internet and Painter thought, why not become the Amazon.com of cars. Painter took his idea directly to then-head of Ford Motor Company, Jacques Nasser.
PAINTER: We went to Dearborn and we sat down at the top floor of Ford's office building in Dearborn. And Jack came in and everybody is very serious. And he says, you know, what can I do for you?
GLINTON: What Painter wanted was to be a new kind of Ford dealer, a Ford dealer on the Internet.
PAINTER: And I can tell you that that is the most naive question to ask Jack Nasser. Now looking back at it, like there's no way we were going to get a virtual dealer point, nor would they even consider it.
GLINTON: The reason no one would consider it? Here, let me read it to you. Alabama Statute 8-20-1-13: Limitations on cancellations, modifications, terminations and non-renewals of franchise relationship. Almost every state in the union has a law like this Alabama law - laws that protect new-car dealers from people like Scott Painter and other who want to change the way new cars are sold.
Fiona Scott Morton is a Yale University economist who's studied the car industry. She says these laws make Scott Painter's idea of a virtual dealership virtually impossible.
FIONA SCOTT MORTON: There are territory restrictions, so the manufacturer can't add dealerships or move them around without demonstrating a market need, which basically boils down to not being able to move the dealerships around. So the dealerships cannot be tailored to follow the population.
GLINTON: Almost every part of the car buying process is enshrined in law - the territory, warranty reimbursement, termination of contract. They make it hard to reward good dealers with price breaks or punish bad ones. All this, Fiona Scott Morton says, ends up making the car buying process less enjoyable.
MORTON: The manufacturer has a very hard time incentivizing the dealer to behave well, to provide good customer service, low prices, nice facilities, or anything else, because they cannot threaten to take away the franchise. That franchisee gets to stay as long as he wants. And if he does a bad job, that's just what he does.
TAMMY DARVISH: We need these state laws to protect our investment, not just the investment in our business but our investment in the people.
GLINTON: Tammy Darvish runs Darcars, a series of dealerships in Maryland and Florida, and she sits on the board of the National Automobile Dealers Association. And she says it makes sense to protect dealers because they're a vital part of their local communities.
DARVISH: If you just take our organization alone, we employ a little over 2,000 people. That's 2,000 families throughout greater Washington that are dependent upon us continuing our business operations.
GLINTON: There are plenty other businesses that supply jobs, but car dealers have a lot of political power. In each state, dealers contribute as much as 20 percent of the overall sales tax revenue. And together, they're among the largest employers in any state. And each dealer contributes on average $13 million to their local economy. That makes state and local legislators listen.
Scott Painter now runs a company called True Car that tries to ease the process of buying a car. He's now trying to work with dealers not around them.
PAINTER: There is no argument by which franchise law goes away and there is no opportunity for that. It is purely a fantasy conversation.
GLINTON: Companies like Tesla, Auto Nation, Costco, and even many dealers are pushing to innovate the system as it is. Everyone I talked to in this story - Tammy Darvish, lawyers for the auto industry, Scott Painter himself - say a friendlier, more rational car-buying experience will come eventually, but not without your local car dealer.
Sonari Glinton, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Justin Bieber might be the most-followed person on Twitter, but he is certainly not the most-nominated person at the Grammys this year. In fact, he didn't even get one nomination! Bieber's long-time manager, Scooter Braun, was appalled, taking to social media to vent his anger. Now, Justin himself is speaking out on the awards snub. Check out this vid to see what the Biebs has to say about getting left off the list.


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Several customers have also sworn by these Minky trainers, claiming them as their "workhorse trainers". It's also a good alternative to when you're ready to start the potty training process, but not quite ready for regular underwear yet and still need the absorbency of diapers."
Margarita wants you try them out.... That is why she is giving away TWO MINKY TRAINERS to one of our readers. All the entries from the Fluff Friday of this week will be entered on this giveaway, and the winner will be posted on Friday, together with the winner of the Fluff Fridays... You also will have the opportunity of an EXTRA comment if post a comment saying "Why you want to win this trainers?".
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No, I can't play the flute. But I can make flutes out of tuille batter and then fill them with Tiramisu. And you can almost hear an orchestra playing in your head when you eat one! The Daring Bakers really had a good time with this one. This month's challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x Umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.
- 65 grams / ¼ cup / 2.3 ounces softened butter (not melted but soft)
- 60 grams / ½ cup / 2.1 ounces sifted confectioner's sugar
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar (7 grams or substitute with a dash of vanilla extract)
- 2 large egg whites (slightly whisked with a fork)
- 65 grams / 1/2 cup / 2.3 ounces sifted all purpose flour
Using a hand whisk or a stand mixer fitted with the paddle (low speed) cream butter, sugar and vanilla to a paste. Keep stirring while you gradually add the egg whites. Continue to add the flour in small batches and stir to achieve a homogeneous and smooth batter/paste. Be careful to not overmix.Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to firm up. (This batter will keep in the fridge for up to a week, take it out 30 minutes before you plan to use it).Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or grease with either butter/spray and chill in the fridge for at least 15 minutes.
I've made a square stencil on a plastic plate. Press the stencil on the bakingsheet and use an off sided spatula to spread batter. Leave some room in between your shapes. Bake squares in a preheated oven (180C/350F) for about 5-10 minutes or until the edges turn golden brown. Immediately release from bakingsheet and proceed to shape/bend the cookies in the desired shape. I've rolled mine on a tube, to make flutes. These cookies have to be shaped when still warm, you might want to bake a small amount at a time or maybe put them in the oven to warm them up again.
A thin coat of chocolate can't hurt
For the Tiramisu Flutes you'll need:
- Melted semi-sweet chocolate
- Mascarpone/vanilla cream
- Cocoa sponge cake
- Coffee/Amaretto bagna
- Tuille flutes
- Crushed tuille pieces (use the ugly ones)
Start by painting melted chocolate inside the flutes when they're shapped and cooled. This besides adding a nice "chocolatey" flavour, will prevent the flute from being soggy by the contact with the cream. Take to the fridge to harden.
- 1 cup mascarpone
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1/2 vanilla bean (or a tsp vanilla extract)
- 4-5 tbsp sugar (adjust to your liking)
Cut the vanilla beat in half and scrape the interior. Beat with a hand or stand mixer with the wisk attatchment, the mascarpone, vanilla and sugar for 1-2 minutes. Add the cream little by little and after you add it all, beat for a couple of minutes more to thicken.
Put the cream in a pastry bag or a ziplock bag and fill the flutes (after the chocolate is harden). Try not to eat them at this point. Take to the fridge.
I like to think of them as chocolate corks.
- 60 gr (2 oz) sugar
- 50 gr (1.7 oz) flour
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
Beat the eggs and sugar until they double the volume. Sift flour and cocoa and carefully add to the egg/sugar mixture. Bake in a pre heated 180ºC (350ºF) until a toothpick comes out clean. Time will depend on your pan. I baked mine a in a mini loaf pan, since this is a very small batch.
Mix about 1/3 cup of coffee with 2 tbsp of Amaretto to make a bagna (syrup) Cut round pieces of the sponge cake (I've used an apple corer) and drop them in the coffee to moisten. Put one at each end of the flutes. And again take to the fridge.
"Close" the ends of the flutes by dipping them in melted chocolate and while the chocolate is still wet dip the ends in tiny pieces of crushed tuilles.
Again take to the fridge until is time to enjoy. Then just bite and start hearing that orchestra...
I loved these! The crunchy tuille, the creamy mascarpone cream, the moist cake, the touch of chocolate, yep all the different textures did it for me!
Ok, you can take this last bite and then go and check all the other tuille creations!


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Welcome to the dark side, young Skywalker...
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I have GERD, and Diet Coke aggravates it something terrible--and I still can't give it up. Sigh.
14 days? I could never go that long without a Coke. I'm impressed.
I knew he would be back - the cult of Diet Coke has powerful charms :). I'm a Tab girl myself these days!
Regrettably, a cracked Dr. Pissy means that the Diet Coke supply has halved, and all Dr. Grumpy types must now share the glorious beverage that is Diet Coke.
That's a nasty side effect.
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A staycation for those who rent.
poor dr. pissy, no Coke for that long, and then his failure gets announced so loudly:P
Oh I don't even bother with Diet Coke and just go for the original :D
What a lightweight! I've been off Diet Coke since January. Though, I do miss it. I was told to avoid it because of acid reflux/gastritis issues.
Dear Diet Coke Traitor,
Should you dare to come to my neck of the woods, and frequent my Holiday store, where I obtain my 52 oz of diet coke each morning, each afternoon, and each evening...
I will have to stab thee. :D
No one comes between me and my Calvin Kleins? eh, NO ONE comes between me and my diet coke.
I've been off it (for no particular reason) for years (8? 9? 10?) Can't stand the taste of it now ~
Haha! Was there a bet?
Yanno, I eat healthy stuff. Whole grains, fresh fruits and veggies, lean meats...
... and they will pry my Diet Coke out of my cold, dead fingers. Just sayin'.
My grandfather has been a Coke man for as long as I can remember. Recently his doctor told him to cut back on sugary drinks. He stopped drinking juice. He continues to drink Coke.
O.K. I have to say as a cardiology patient, that doctors are about the worst people I've seen about caffeine. I cracked up because my cardiothoracic surgeon's partner was giving their secretary grief because the coffee in their waiting room was decaf. Yeah you know, for the heart patients?
Y'all can keep your Diet Coke. Just means there is more Dr. Pepper for me. I have had one every morning since high school. Breakfast of champions!
That doesn't look like a Kosher for Passover can of Diet Coke.
When life is crazy and I have to narrow down my reading list from 10 blogs to 2, this is one of them. Thanx for the entertainment. And keep your eyes on your stash of Diet Coke.
did he bother to give any excuse?
I marvel at the neurologist who has a Diet Coke addiction. Isn't aspartame a neurotoxin?
This, coming from the cardiac educator nurse who eats bacon, cooks with butter every day....pot, kettle, blah blah.
Never had one, but now you have me curious..........and thus began his long decline into Diet Coke dependency syndrome.
Did you have to give him back all the ones he gave you when he quit?
Regular coke please. Diet seems to give me headaches.
It was a bad idea to start with. Glad Dr. Pissy has come to his senses.
As a recovering DC addict I always wondered what it is in the secret formula. Nicotine?
i loathe diet coke.
coke zero is the way to go, cherry coke zero is even better. they both have that battery-acid burn first thing in the morning that cuts the overnight ick in the throat.
Those with GERD who can't give up Diet Coke...try the caffeine free. Buying that has allowed me to continue drinking Diet Coke. Then again, I'm one of the few people who don't respond to caffeine. It doesn't keep me awake until I get into overdose land. Well, I respond, but only in terms of it flooding my system with acid, to the extent that I will get aspiration bronchitis from stomach acid, t gets in my ears, I cough up acid filled phlegm from my lungs for weeks. It's horrible, so no caffeine for me.
That sooooooooooo made my day, reading that. LOL - I laughed pretty hard. It is hard to break - my drug of choice is Diet Pepsi. I tried to give it up a couple of months ago. I lasted a week. Life is too short to go without those sweet fizzy bubbles...
Thought you'd like to see this news article if you haven't already. It's safe to drink Diet Coke again! Rejoice!
I recently discovered that Coke Zero had started selling Vanilla Zero. I loved the old Diet Vanilla Coke, so I tried it. And the two times I've had it, after about 6 ounces I end up with something like a migraine. Best description I can give of the effect is think drunk and then hangover, though with only a very mild headache - the walls fall down for the whole evening, and the first time I threw up for several hours.
I didn't have this problem with Cherry Zero last month, but I'm afraid to try any diet cola from any company at this point. And of course all the diet sodas now use acesulfame, and I'm very, very sensitive to anything with sulfer....
I guess it's back to coffee.
Seriously, everyone's addiction is keeping me in practice - I deal with all the health consequences of all the pop addicts and no I'm not a dentist. And for the cardiologist nurse eating bacon and butter - saturated fat, but ok for you.
Enjoy! http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/05/10/diet-coke-addicts/
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I know, I know, I am lagging on replying back to some of you, I am trying! But there's just so much to do all at once that sometimes it slips my mind! I will try and answer many of your questions today and tomorrow. :)
I took some swatches of the newest collection from MAC. My official take on it (product review) won't be completed until tomorrow night because I ordered mine online (the eyeshadows and pigments) and it is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, but I was able to snag a couple of the lipsticks that I didn't add to cart previously: Sci-Fi Delity and Pleasureseeker.
Some of you didn't like the bright neon orange packaging, and I am not a fan of orange either, BUT I must say I like that it's bright because it helps me differentiate which lipsticks are what compared to the other lipsticks I have, especially the normal sleek black MAC tubes. It makes it a lot easier to just see it. Grab it. And go!
I swatched the blushes and the lipglasses on my right hand, and then I forgot about it and it wiped off somewhere... :(
This is Sci-Fi Delity mixed with the gorgeous glaze lipstick, Pleasureseeker.
"Evening Aura" is also "Femme Fi", I didn't realize the MUA was using Evening Aura on someone and just replaced it with another Femme Fi (argh I hate when they do that! LOL)
The receptionist said I had a delivery of flowers. I didn't think it was from the BF because he's not THAT romantic, it's not my birthday (yet), and it's not Valentine's Day (LOL), unless I was dying and I didn't know! I then thought it was from my dad since my birthday is around the corner (June 1st), but I know he wouldn't send it TOO early, but alas! It was indeed from the BF with a card that read, "Just Because I love you! -Romeo". (Yes, that's his real name, LOL)
Awwww it was VERY sweet, even though I must admit I thought it was fishy, so much so that I immediately called him and said "What did you do? Did you break one of my eyeshadows? Did you sleep with someone?" LOL. He was like "NO! It's because I love you!" LOL.
It was a HUGE martini glass with two straws, just in time for margaritas in Vegas! (Even though I can't drink since im allergic to alcohol! Phooey!)
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MAC Solar Field & Neo Sci-Fi Collection
I know, I know, I am lagging on replying back to some of you, I am trying! But there's just so much to do all at once that sometimes it slips my mind! I will try and answer many of your questions today and tomorrow. :)
35 comments
- Roselyn said...
Hey honey. Your gonna love the items ordered! I love this collection for how practical it is. Check out my review. I bought it all!!! I'm such a sucker! Hahah!
- May 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
i'm on my way to check out the MAC products tomorrow :) hopefully i don't buy too much! that was soooo sweet of Romeo, ahhhhhh he loves you!
- May 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- said...
I am actually a fan of orange so I'm excited for my stuff to come in the mail. I ordered online as well. Can't wait to recieve my goodies! :)
Those flowers are gorgeous! Your boyfriend is such a sweetie. I'd probably be all sketchy if my bd sent me flowers out of the blue too. lol
(ps. did you recieve my shipping info yet?)
- May 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Lani said...
your bf is too sweet nessa, you're such a lucky gal. ;)
thanks for the swatches!
- May 22, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- ilurvemakeup said...
ROFL!!!!!!!! Ahahaha, ang romantic naman Romeo mo, asawa ko sus ang tamad sa romancing! Excuse nya ay, "I married you that's beyond love." LOL Ang swerte mo naman, trade tayo! Ahaha
Hindi nako pwending bumili MAC, yung cheaps nalang lol Maganda ba yung nail polish sa collection nito? Nakuha ku yung collection mail nila, yung nail polish lang ang na gustohan ko kase. O sige, baluktot ang tagalog spelling ko. Ingat nalang! <3
- May 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM
- philosopher said...
Wow, pleasureseeker looks good! I think I'm gonna get that!
- May 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- iamgrape1119 said...
AWWW~ Your BF is WAY too cute!! *Stares at my bf (who's playing video games)for not being romantic and sweet...
The solar bits look like they have a lot of fall out and kinda chunky, are they? Thanks!
- May 22, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Yellow Fever said...
aww, those are gorgeous flowers! your swatches are making me go broke! I thought I would just go buy one lipstick from the collection but now I have my eye on more stuff!
- May 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Tracy said...
jon is so sweet! did u really ask him if he broke one of your eyeshadows? hahaha. i don't encourage zac to give me flowers kuz i think it's a waste of money. hehehe. the last boquet he got me was an edible arrangements one with chocolate covered strawberries. can't say no to that!
- May 22, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Katrina said...
Delity looks so gorgeous, don't know that it would go with my skin tone though. Your flowers are lovely.
- May 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Miranda said...
Thnx for the swatches!
You have a great boyfriend. I think you should keep him (LOL!)
Love from Holland!
- May 22, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Lily said...
HAHA "Did you break one of my eyeshadows?" That is hilarious! That's what I'd say to my boyfriend!
- May 22, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
awww....your bf is so sweet. i remember my fiance (he was my bf at the time) came to my house EARLY one morning with roses. i was like, "what's this for?" and he said, "i had a dream that you left me..." lol. he's funny. he's always bribing me with makeup to cook for him and of course i don't refuse! i'll buy making even w/o cooking for him. one day ups just barely left our apartment and he saw them drive away and he was like, "i know that ups man just dropped you off makeup. what'd you get." lol. i tried to play it off but i can't lie!
- May 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM
- Nanzy said...
I love the fact that "Did you break one of my eyeshadows?" lines comes before "Did you sleep with someone?"
nice swatches, thank you Nessa!
- May 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
thanks for getting back to me! you're so sweet. i went on their website last night and got the buttery gold and then got a packet of the warm gold. i figured i would just mix those together and come up with a formula so i don't get too much yellow. i think i'll tweak the formula till i find something that matches. i was gonna buy pleasure seeker! i like how it looks on you. i was gonna get it online but i was like, "i'll get it in vegas when i go!" lol
- May 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Askmewhats said...
awww your bf is sooo sweet!! your story's soo funny! asking him what he had done!!! hahahah that's too cute!!!
I love pleasureseeker on you!!!
- May 22, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- d0rksta said...
The packaging is so pretty! I want one!
And it's so sweet of your bf to deliver you flowers (:
- May 22, 2008 at 5:53 PM
- ' * : . b | u 3 . : * ' said...
haha i thought the same thing as nanzy :P wish i would get flowers too...i should leave my browser open with your post on it as a hint! lol.
those lipsticks look really great! i'm interested in reading what you think of the solar bits, if you got them that is.
- May 22, 2008 at 6:22 PM
- alien man?! said...
ack! your bf is such a sweetheart! and i LOLed at your 'what did you do?' haha so cute
- May 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- *budget makeup said...
awww how sweet. the flowers look so beautiful. i just started my own blog and i was wondering when you had time if you could send me a comment on maybe suggestions or comments you had. btw. loveee you blog
<3 Christine
- May 22, 2008 at 7:27 PM
- Stephanie said...
I think it's funny you asked him if he broke one of your eyeshadows before you asked if he slept with someone! lol
- May 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM
- suzie wuzie said...
i love that mac l/s in pleasureseeker. such a nice coral colour. and your bf is such a sweet guy too. the flower is absolutely gorgeous and the martini glass is so cool!
- May 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Emilee @ GMM said...
Aww, your boyfriend's a keeper! But I'm sure you knew that before the flowers. :P
Sci-fi-Delity is such a beautiful lipstick, although it reminded me a bit of Fresh Moroccan from a while back. Thanks for the comprehensive review!
- May 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- tiffany said...
I love pleasureseeker! but I have a weird question: why does the tips of the lipstick seem to have something on them? cause they look really pale in the pics!
- May 23, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- Vanessa said...
Thanks loves! Glad you are all getting a lil something from this collection! And yeah the BF tries to be sweet! LOL.
Tiffany- That's because I used the lipstick on my lips and THEN took pics of it, I just couldn't wait!
- May 23, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
hey Nessa! am one of those orange packaging haters haha... personally i am not liking anything simply 'cause am not into neutrals but am loving your hauls nevertheless! and your BF is tooo sweet! i wish my hubby will send me flowers for no reason. :)
- May 23, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- tiffany said...
oh hahahaha! lol man I really want pleasureseeker now.
- May 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM
- Linda said...
thanks for the swatches! and that was so sweet of your bf. i laughed when i read, "did you break one of my eyeshadows?" lol
- May 23, 2008 at 2:47 PM
- Nic Nic said...
your bf is too sweet!
I always look forward seeing lipsticks on you, you can pull off every other color! the new mac lippies look fab on you, especially sci-fi-delity! it's hot!
- May 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- psychoexgirlfriend said...
LOL, I loved how if he'd broken one of your eyeshadows he may have bought you flowers. :D They're beautiful and you're lucky to have a bf so sweet and romantic like that. The new lippies look awesome. I'll be sure to check em out next week.
- May 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- MeaganMonster said...
aww what a sweetie.
- May 24, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- (g)ezebel said...
(1) your boyfriend is the sweetest guy EVER!!
(2) shoot. i gotta go back to the MAC counter and get that electro lippie. so pretty!
- May 26, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Stephie said...
omg that is sooo sweet :)
- May 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- ladyjane said...
That's so pretty. I'm allergic to alcohol too, so I can't drink it. I know how you feel!
- May 28, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
Aww! That's so sweet of your honey! And wow, he knows how to pick gifts. ;)
- May 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM


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Sgt. Phil Shepard, Ardmore Fraternal Order of Police President, said the annual holiday Shop With Cops project has drawn 500 applications this year.
"Right now we are going over all the applications," Shepard said. "We hope to begin notifying those children selected for the program by the end of the week."
Each child selected for the 2012 Shop With Cops will be given $100 to spend anyway they wish. But the money isn't all the children receive. Each child is accompanied by their own "personal cop shopper," who drives them to and from the shopping spree in a real police car, with lights flashing and sirens screaming, and accompanies them while they shop.The festivities also includes a pre-shopping Christmas party at City Hall.
"This year Blessings Bakery is helping us with the party by providing cookies and cupcakes," Shepard said, adding other volunteers including the FOP Auxiliary also assist in making Shop With Cops a memory that the children will have for a lifetime.
Shop With Cops will be Dec. 10-11. This year, as in the past, the focus of the project is providing deserving children with a Christmas they would not otherwise have, Shop With Cops also has another purpose. The event helps officers establish and build positive relationships with children in the community.
The project is funded by donations, the Shop With Cops Rodeo and for the second year proceeds from Ardmore Main Street's Parade of Lights will benefit the project. The parade is Tuesday evening following the Christmas Tree Lighting in Central Park.
Those wishing to make a contribution to this year's Shop With Cops should drop off their contribution at Ardmore Police Department headquarters at City Hall or by calling (580) 223-1212.


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Chamber music > String Quartets
Joseph Haydn
String Quartets Book IX op. 71 and 74 (Apponyi-Quartets)
Editor: Georg Feder, Isidor Saslav
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Haydn dedicated the series of Quartets op. 71 and 74 to the Hungarian Count Apponyi, a Viennese patron of music and a freemason friend. Haydn composed them when he was enjoying a great deal of success with his "London Symphonies" in England. With their weighty slow introductions and dense movements focusing on sound, they also have symphonic characteristics. In particular the Quartet in g minor op. 74,3 is striking on account of its expressiveness and originality. Due to the rhythmic drive of the outer movements it was give the epithet "Rider Quartet". The study edition complements the parts of the "Apponyi Quartets" which are already available in Henle Urtext.
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