As a father of three daughters, all of whom attended various Montessori schools back in the late 70’s, I thought I had a basic understanding about Montessori education.  However, when I started to work at my mother’s Montessori school in January of 1991, I was amazed at how much more I could have known. It has become my passion to help parents realize the importance of learning along with their child. What is truly best for children is not necessarily what is popular or convenient.  Some of us had great parents that were role models for us, others did not. Nevertheless, for most of us what we know about parenting is what we learned from our parents. Like it or not, we are often imitating their strengths or weaknesses. I think the biggest danger is becoming self satisfied with our personal knowledge of parenting and our understanding of our children. There is so much great information available now. We can really make changes for the better by being open to taking in new information and growing in our knowledge and understanding along with our child. T.K.