Education begins with trust and faith.
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...