The Early Childhood Educator
Welcome to The Early Childhood Educator
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" - Nelson Mandela

Family Culture
If a major catastrophe were to completely devastate our country's infrastructure and we were made to live in another country. If I was...
Research that benefits children and families
If I had the opportunity to conduct a research topic on any subject right now in the Early Childhood field, I would research the affects...
My Personal Research Journey
For my research competencies class, I chose to research the effects of positive adult-child interactions as a Training and Curriculum...
Excellence and Equity of Care and Education for Children and Families
On the issue of standards in the early childhood educational setting Delila Vasquez said,"...at least it puts a goal in front of the...
Shared Resources Part 2
The Global for Children (GFC) theory of change is a ideal that we should all get behind. The GFC believes that the most effective way of...
International Organization: Concern Worldwide
The Concern Worldwide organization implements a large number of programs in 23 countries that are designed to address specific causes of...
Sharing Web Resources: Global Fund for Children
The Global Fund for Children is a wonderful organization that provides resources around the world. "We strategically unite community...
Expanding Horizons and Expanding Resources
The Global Fund for Children appears to be a wonderful organization with a global reach but a local impact. The Global Fund works by...
Daily Supports
Available resources to help one complete the task at hand. That would be my definition of support. I am fortunate to have many support...
My connections to play
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” -Mr. Rogers “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo...
Relationship Reflections
My husband. We have been married for 20 years. We attribute our meeting to God's divine plan. I knew his bestfriend, who dated my cousin,...
Educational Quotes
"It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it...
Assessment
Is there a way to measure the mind or intelligence of a child? Intelligence as defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as (1): the ability...
Hunger
For a few brief years a dear friend of my family fostered at risk children. She and her husband cared for children which had experience...
Breastfeeding: One Momma's Opinion
As a mother that breastfeed, both of my children, this is a topic, for which I am extremely passionate. In the United States, there has...
A Birth Story
My first pregnancy was delightful until it came time to give birth to my child. I had done everything right, diet, exercise, read all the...
Codes of Ethics that have meaning to me
Code of Ethics of NAEYC P-2.3—We shall inform families of and, when appropriate, involve them in policy decisions. P-2.5—We shall make...
Resource Toolbox
Position Statements and Influential Practices: https://class.content.laureate.net/e4c50f3b013b48cd9e7dac380753570d.pdf...
Quotes from "The Passion for Early Childhood":
"We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child's life for the better and so that's what makes me...
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
Marian Wright Edelman
