Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy

About Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy

A Montessori podcast for parents and teachers about raising children and educating students while bettering ourselves alongside them

Publisher

Jesse McCarthy

Category

education · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2018

Latest episode

11 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 125 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Jan 2026

   Bad Daddy

   Sometimes you got to be the bad guy (or gal).

2. 

   1 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Montessori - Things Fall

   In today’s Insta-worthy world, we tend to want to present things as always “perfect”. But in what fantasy land do children, or us adults, never mess up? The reality is, real perfection includes falling down. And that’s why in Montessori it’s OK for children to make mistakes along the way, like accidentally spilling things.

3. 

   25 Aug 2025

   You Can't Force Growth

   What a missing boy taught me about childhood

Inside a recent episode

Montessori - Things Fall

Published 1 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Everything is always so beautiful and orderly, nobody's bumping into anything, I think about this. If people were to go by only what they see in their Instagram feeds, I feel like most normal parents and teachers without real experience, would think that Montessori children never mess up, they don't spill things, they don't drop things, nothing ever falls and Montessori. But this is not true, of course, in fact it's far from the nature of childhood itself. The growth, healthy development requires some messiness along the way. And so in real world Montessori classrooms, things get messy at times and that's okay. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

993,714

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

278 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

113 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

96