What Are We About?

Thomas More Education Services is both an Internet and Local Resource exploring new pathways in education and fostering conversation among parents, teachers and others serving youth.

Through this, we hope to meet their concerns about what can helpfully contribute to the preparation of our children and youth to deal successfully with the opportunities, responsibilities and challenges they face and will face in today’s changing world.

We will accomplish these goals through our website, TheThrivingFamily.org (please see) and with local programs in Paradise Valley, Montana.

Meet Our Team

Christine Thomas - Editor and Office Administrator

Christine believes in the importance of parents as the child’s first and most important educators. She has raised two delightful children, has a BA in education, has been a certified Montessori teacher, which taught her to follow the child’s inner knowing and interests in learning. She has multiple years of experience working with parents and children as both teacher and administrator.

Her special interests are in the social-emotional development of children. And she has a passion for helping parents who are raising and trying to educate a family at this confusing time when many educational principles have changed so dramatically. She would like to connect parents and teachers to some of the excellent resources available today. Understanding and restoring right educational principles that are timeless is her goal.

Christine enjoys beautiful music, watching sunsets, reading, and research and she finds joy in living a life of service to the wonderful community she lives in. She values being an American and believes we must teach our children to understand and support the beautiful country we live in and restore the values it was founded on.

Marjorie Lombard - Writer and Content Manager

Marjorie was recruited out of a college classroom to help meet the baby boomers as they crowded into schools across the country beginning in the 1950’s. She was given a carefully guided internship as she met her first students, 50 fifth-graders, in what was the start of a 60-year-plus career, working with ever-new generations and ever-changing challenges in education.

During those decades she taught preschoolers through high schoolers in regular and special ed settings, local and residential schools, public and private. She brings that experience, both as teacher and sometime administrator, to a new career in writing and public speaking.

Marjorie is aware that "today, more than ever, our children and youth - their parents, teachers and others serving them - are in need of encouragement and help as they navigate a sometimes unfriendly or chaotic environment. Even in such an environment, life is full of possibilities. As the young create the adults of tomorrow, we, their elders, want to offer the best of ourselves, and the best homes, classrooms, culture and nation we can manage, to their wholesome, skilled and fullest development.”

Circle of Friends

These are volunteers who are gathering, helping us to “get off the ground” with our new venture.

Each conversation, each brain-storming session, and each experience or idea shared, is a treasure. We are grateful!