Honoring Childhood

🌸 so excited to be getting back out there offering workshops to educators and early childhood programs! had the absolutely a couple weeks ago to give a workshop to a great group of early childhood educators and family child care providers and they had some wonderful things to say! It brings me so much joy to be in community with folks and to know that they things I have to share resonate with folks, encourage them, and help support them in the very important work they do each and every day.

🌸 want to bring one of my workshops to your program? just send me a DM and let’s chat! I would be so honored to be able to support you and your team! 🫶🏼

In fact, it is important for children to make mistakes! Making mistakes teaches children how to think deeper and more critically, how to overcome disappointment, how to find power in themselves, and how to not take life so seriously. Think about your own childhood for a moment: were you ever encouraged to make mistakes? What happened when you did make a mistake? Was it treated as a positive or negative thing? Now think about how you feel or react when you make a mistake as an adult. There is a huge correlation between those two things! For me, I want children to have a different experience than I did and the only way for that to happen is for me to give them a different experience. So let’s start encouraging mistakes and celebrating the as an important part of life instead of using them to make ourselves (and each other) feel badly. Because you know what? We all make mistakes. It is what we do with those mistakes that make us who we are. 🫶🏼