by Dr. Linda Karges-Bone | Oct 15, 2023 | Child Development
It is what you say and how much you say it Headlines in prestigious publications and talking heads on annoying streaming platforms have a lot to say about the current, controversial, and in this professor’s mind catastrophic practice of retaining children at the end...
by Dr. Linda Karges-Bone | May 4, 2023 | Child Development
I’ve been caring for and entertaining children for approximately 50 years. Yep. Half a century. So, I have a few ideas and they may surprise you. Here’s a synopsis. Three R’s for the Summer Nanny 2023. Read. Repurpose. Reset These Three R’s have the potential to...
by Dr. Linda Karges-Bone | Feb 1, 2022 | Child Development
Talking Numbers and Nanny Life “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” Albert Einstein This famous quote attributed to Einstein is fitting for a Nanny Life chat because so much of what one does when working...
by Dr. Lynn Hartman | Dec 5, 2020 | Child Development
Attachment Theorist John Bowlby was the first attachment theorist to describe attachment as a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings” (Cherry,2019 p.1). Bowlby was interested in understanding the anxiety and distress children experience when...
by Dr. Lynn Hartman | Oct 16, 2020 | Child Development
The Sociocultural theory believes that human development is acquired from cultural values, beliefs, and problem solving through interacting and collaboration with other people in that society (McLeod, 2018). Vygotsky believes that the community is central to...
by Dr. Lynn Hartman | Oct 8, 2020 | Child Development
Jean Piaget was the first psychologist in 1936 to design a systematic study of cognitive development (McLeod, 2018). His theory focused only on children and their development not their learning. The system is a stage theory not a linear progression (Teacher of...
