Mission
To be a resource to Montessori parents and educators, including homeschoolers, heads of schools and teachers. To inspire adults dedicated to developing the whole child to reach his potential.
Welcome to my sweet little blog.
Carrots Are Orange focuses on Montessori inspired ideas & activities, teaching kids about money, traveling with kids and general musings.
My philosophy? Well, I believe children are capable of great things. Parents, educators and caretakers can help children most by creating an environment in which they can thrive independently and drive their own learning. I believe in developing a child’s “whole self” including intellectual development but also emotional and practical life development. Creating and building healthy habits early in a child’s life is powerful. I want to raise happy, kind, self sufficient and productive human beings. I want to be accessible to parents, educators and care takers. I offer you is an honest perspective and easy, accessible “to dos” with your child. I am focused on developing my boys’ (ages 3 years and 18 months old) “whole selves” so they can be confident, thoughtful, productive and independent individuals. Most of all, I want them to be happy. I will present and share with you Montessori inspired ideas ranging from sensory experiences, early financial literacy, traveling with kids, movement, practical life, arts and our Montessori home environment. Simplicity and accessibility is my goal.
This blog will chronicle the journey of raising my sons for them and for me, and, hopefully, as a result, will be an extremely accessible resource for you. My goal is that this blog will be your one stop resource as I experiment with my parenting style, while I create and test drive Montessori inspired learning activities and other fun stuff. Consider me and my boys your personal learning activities vetting machine!
I am excited to share my experiences with you. It’d be nice to make you laugh every so often too! If you email me, I will respond to you directly and immediately. I want you to feel control in this crazy virtual world and I want to help.
So please ask questions, leave comments, subscribe to my feed, connect via Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus. Let me know your interests and let’s see where the wind takes us!
I hope you enjoy and I hope I make you smile a little.
Happy reading!
Marnie
Founder, Carrots Are Orange
Building and Creating Healthy Habits Early
Marnie Craycroft
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Yo — Iove it! This is super cute and fun and would have been invaluable when Nathan was a little guy. SInce Sky’s first food was stew a month ago and she has since graduated to bagels, whole fruits, pasta, pizza, etc (albeit USUALLY with homemade sauce and locally grown organic veggies thanks to our biweekly deliveries from Ful Circle Farm), we never broke out any of our puree tools. I swear she wants to do everything her big brother does. I will definitely be following this, though …
How about cocktail recipes on Fridays for the parents?
Andrew!! Love it! Where do I sign up? Hope you managed to have a cocktail this Friday evening…Hope to see you soon!
Marn,
This is awesome. I am so impressed you have the time not only to cook all this delicious food for Jack, but have the time to share it with others.
Fun to read.
Miss you,
Ashley