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Education begins with trust and faith.

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 Before we are even born, our brains are developing.  Once we are born, we learn who is familiar and safe and we begin to develop the important task of gaining trust in relationships.  If we fail to develop trust with the main caregiver or parent in the first 18 months of life- the sequential developmental milestones are difficult to achieve successfully per the Erik Erikson theory of human development.  This is a framework that I have found particularly useful since I first heard about in 2013 while taking classes in a prenursing program that I was part of.   After my second daughter was born, I felt parenting was hard and it pushed me to the edges of what I could handle.  I knew I needed to grow and my work with students inspired me to go back to school for nursing- hopefully to continue working with youth.  My goal was to be a school nurse during the school year and spend my summers at summer camps.  I ended up not completing the program b...

Creating a Small Online Business in Education.

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Creating a small online business in the field of education is interesting and definetly a learning curve and perhaps also a labor of love.  In the education field, so much is public yet there is also so much to be desired.  Private schools are the alternative to public schools which are generally available to any student who can afford them although each private school or private education service is typically privately owned and tailored for a niche audience, so they really might not be for everyone.  The division isn't simply just a matter of wealthy or poor but many other cultural factors are often at play in the private school or services realm.  Cultural variables to consider are religion, language, country of origin (ethnicity) or even philosophy which can sometimes appear to be like a religion- for instance, often being vegetarian is a philosophy but this is even not always 100% of the time.   In public schools, schools are designed to be for everyon...

Reflection and Purpose

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  Outside my home office my child who is now ten is dropped off by her bus.  I am so fortunate to have her be able to ride a bus to and from school and be picked up and dropped up right in front of my house.  Not all students in my district have a bus driver and literally this has been the saving grace to allow me to work from home and have my student attend fifth grade.  A year and a half ago, my youngest was just a newborn and that made five kids.  At the time, I didn't have a working car and it took eight months before it was fixed.  My family and I relied on public transportation, rides from family and friends, and delivery services through out the pandemic in 2020.  In my world, lockdown was nearly a year.  I gave up searching for mechanics until one day a neighbor let me know there was a mechanic on our street.  I decided to give the mechanic a dial and for less than $300.00 my car was fixed when I thought it was just another junker....