Montessori recommendations

Does anyone have a good Montessori recommendation? I live down town and my child is 18months. She has been in daycare since she was 12 months. We recently switched to a new daycare 3 weeks ago based on it being a better facility (lots of green space, indoor gyms, yoga and music classes for the babies). However I am not happy with the menu and screen time that is being offered. There is a tv in the room and today they had the babies sitting around an IPad watching cartoons. They also have added sugars and processed foods on their menu (chocolate chip cookie, cheerios). I have voiced my concerns to management but wasn’t really given any indication it would change. Purchasing better food options for the whole class is also not allowed. I have worked really hard to not give my baby sugar or screen time (as recommended by her paediatrician)so this new daycare is really uncomfortable for me. We are now looking to get into a Montessori where there will be no screen time and hopefully better food. We are willing to pay full price for this change since we think it’s more important than getting the daycare subsidy that we have now. Anyone have their child in a centre they recommend?

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All the good Montessori schools I know that are downtown don't accept children until potty trained at 2.5 years. I'm sure others exist but this has been my experience e downtown so far.

Hi! Could you please the name of the daycare you currently go to? I want to make sure to avoid it

Following as I've had the same experience. I'm wondering if our children go to the same daycare? They give the kids fruit loops several times a week, cookies every day etc. Its actually ridiculous. None of the other parents seem to care or think it's a big deal. I spoke up, and they no longer provide my son food that has any added sugars.

Downtown Montessori, Bremner Blvd, I have requested them not to give my baby any cereal or packaged food and they follow that. Everything else is great and I have been very happy with them.

We go to a private Montessori that’s fantastic but they start at 2.5 and require fully potty trained which is the case for most Montessori schools, I believe. I know of one outside of the city that is from an earlier age as they have a baby/toddler program like daycare. Not private so probably has a long wait list. You can go through the list : https://www.toronto.ca/data/children/dmc/a2z/a2za.html

There are only a few ones enrolled in the Montessori foundation. Be careful about that. Dr Maria Montessori didn’t register her name because she said education must be affordable for everybody. But now some businesses are taking advantage of that. https://www.ami-canada.com/findaschool.html

@🍉 good point! Make sure providers are AMI certified!

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