“You know the movie ‘The Sixth Sense,’ where the kid says ‘I see dead people?’” asks Lonna Corder, the highly respected Montessori teacher.
“I see bad parents. Everywhere.”
But there wasn’t a bad parent in sight at a recent gathering to celebrate the launch of her new business venture, LIPP (Lonna’s Individual Parenting Plan.)

Peter and Debby Magowan opened up their home for the occasion because they’ve personally experienced the benefits of working with Lonna.
“Our precious grandson, Alexander, needed a preschool. Ann Getty told me we needed to go over and meet …

“The moment you have to negotiate with a toddler, you are done.”
Those words of warning come from Lonna Corder, who runs the Montessori preschool at Ann & Gordon Getty’s Pacific Heights home.
Corder believes that children should stop using pacifiers at around 6 months of age. “Take it away when your child’s brain can handle it,” she recently told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “If you wait too long, getting rid of it becomes a bad struggle.”
Jenny Thomas, an occupational therapist at the Getty school, agrees.  She said, “I know 3-year-olds who …