Can you imagine a more welcome holiday treat than one that might actually help to make children more alert during the learning process or more reflective during the creative process? How about a simple gift that could help parents curb the effects of stress during...
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...
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. Read. Repurpose. Reset These Three R’s have the potential to restore...
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 with...
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 they...
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...
