Teacher / Mother / Writer - A Portfolio

If you are pregnant with your first child, other than the absolute basics (diapers, wipes, car seat, clothes, something to lay them in when they’re not attached to you , which is like 20 mins out of the day), figuring out what else you need for baby can be really really overwhelming. There are thousands items you could make a strong case for buying, and thousands more versions of that one item to pick from.  If you’re about to have your second, third, fourth....(I’ll just stop there), there’s always some new or cool “necessity” that didn’t exist before this time around. Or, in my case, there’s an old favorite that got recalled so you need to find a replacement favorite. With everything that’s available, it’s hard to know what is a “must haves”.  I can’t assume to know what your favorites are or will be, but I can tell you what I found to be mine. And just know, I only had two of the products I’m going to tell you about before having my daughter, but the rest were...

In early 2019, my 2 year old daughter started speech therapy. Various assessments showed she was developing normally in all other areas except for her speech, where she had an obvious, and then test proven, delay. As part of the infants and toddlers program she recieves her speech services through, she is also assessed in other areas of development about every 6 months to check for continued overall growth.  As I watched the assessments take place and as I answered assessment questions, I started to panic. “Oh my God. I never even thought about whether she could do that...or that...or that.” My daughter has been at home with me since birth and I started to feel as if maybe I would be confident that she could do more of the skills being assessed if she was attending a toddler/preschool program.  Then I started to realize that any skill my daughter needed exposure to, I was capable of showing her. I just needed to know what those skills were. So I opened up google...

Hello Potential Clients. I created this site for you to have easy access to my portfolio of work. I hope you find the examples of blogs and articles helpful in getting a feel for my quality and style of writing and you’d be encouraged to allow me the opportunity to work for you. Just a little about myself. I am 37 years old, married, with one daughter and another child on the way. I graduated from Towson University in 2004 with a degree in Early Childhood Education. I taught kindergarten in a Title One school in Baltimore County, MD for twelve years, earning my Masters of Science in Education from Walden University during the course of that time. After the birth of my daughter, I transitioned into being a stay at home mom and will continue that after the birth of my next child for the foreseeable future. I have always had a passion for writing and sharing information and my perspectives on issues I’m passionate about in a creative and concise way. I’m looking for different oppo...