About this blog

"The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities" 

- Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind  

This blog is my personal and honest journey as a parent, and my hope to connect with others to hopefully form a force of evolution toward empowered, inspired, creative and responsible children - the future!  (I've big hopes!)

I’ve been a mother for a year now, to the little lady. And what a journey it’s been. I’m definitely no longer an island, concerned with myself and my happiness. I feel connected to life, society and family in a much deeper way. 

I’ve always had these kind of half ideas and philosophies about life but now I feel more of an urgency for change, I feel a responsibility to change things for my children. You see I feel that evolution has taken a wrong turning somewhere and we’ve ended up in the mess we’re in today. Consuming and working our butts off to consume even more. I feel brainwashed to be so materialistic that sometimes I don't even have time to be a mother, what I consider to be the most important job I have. I feel I need to follow my instincts and evolve naturally as a parent rather than getting caught up in the rat race. But there are so many distractions all around me that it is so easy to find myself running the race.

I'm babywearing, breastfeeding, co-sleeping and cloth nappying. And as the little lady is constantly changing, who knows what else I'll be doing.  As my mother said when my daughter took her first tentative steps "look, look she's walking away from you"!! But I don't mind, I'm proud of her.

My desire is to bring up free thinking, confident and responsible individuals. I don't believe our education system here will assist me in this! And this is the main problem, the education system. Who knows the future might see me homeschooling. 

At the very least this is my space to get these rants out of my head, but what I would hope is that this becomes a space to connect with other like-minded parents. (So don’t be shy and reply).
Ultimately I would love to see a REAL montessori primary school open up in Cork by 2015, just in time for the little lady to go (selfish I know).

I'd love if you joined me on this journey. 

Richael x