Stumbling Through Work
Working in education is to stumble through your everyday! We love what we do, but staff, families, policies, regulations and sometimes even the children make us quit everyday then come back the next day. Just remember, you are not in this alone.
Stumbling Through Work
Latest Episodes
Degrees, Drama, and Daycare: Confidence Is Not Competence
Viral debates about who “counts” as an expert can feel like entertainment, until you realize early childhood education lives with the consequences. I start with the online credibility mess and pull it back to the question directors, teachers, a...
From Toy Story To Tablets: What Screen Research Really Says
Toy Story 5 has everyone arguing about kids and screens again and I want to pull this conversation back to reality. Screen time isn’t automatically “good” or “bad,” and the research doesn’t support bumper-sticker parenting. What matters is cont...
Child Care Is Not Okay
We break down the newest NAEYC workforce survey data and call out the real reason child care keeps teetering on the edge: the money does not match the expectations. Then we get practical about leadership restraint, parent trust, messy staff con...
Don’t End Up On The News
Something is deeply broken when a childcare worker thinks it’s acceptable to punish a crying child with humiliation and confinement. We react to a North Carolina daycare case under investigation and say the quiet part out loud: abuse is abuse, ...
