Lorena Seidel is a Montessori teacher, a social-emotional consultant, and a mother of three. She helps teachers and parents build a more peaceful, positive and purposeful relationship with children...view moreLorena Seidel is a Montessori teacher, a social-emotional consultant, and a mother of three. She helps teachers and parents build a more peaceful, positive and purposeful relationship with children. This is accomplished through providing children the optimum learning environment - both physically (home/school) and emotionally (climate set by the adults). Lorena is a certified Montessori teacher by the American Montessori Society(AMS) and has taught for many years at the Whitby School, located in Greenwich, CT. Lorena is a trained Positive Discipline Parent and Teacher Educator and has helped thousands of teachers and parents through coaching, workshops, lectures, parent-child classes, and school consulting. Lorena’s goal is to help children develop valuable academic, social-emotional, and life skills using everyday life as opportunities to teach and learn. With Lorena’s help parents and teachers are bring up more independent, resilient, responsible, capable, and emotionally stable children. Lorena has received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education and Linguistics from the Pontificate Catholic University in Brazil and a degree in Literature from the University of Connecticut. Lorena has a Master of Arts of Elementary Education from Sacred Heart University, and she is also an International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) trained teacher. Lorena is the founder of The Purposeful Child and has authored interactive parenting e-book “Everyday Montessori” and "The Purposeful Child" DVD series. Lorena lives in Connecticut with her husband Andrew and her sweet daughters Pollyanna, Annabelle, and Julliette.view less