My name is Maureen (Mo) Weinhardt, and I’m a professional educator. Throughout my career I’ve sought out opportunities to work with students of all ages. Teaching positions I’ve held include:
~Middle School Teacher
~High School Teacher
~Director of a Middle School Program
~Director of a Summer Camp for grades 1-12
~Toddler & Preschool Teacher
~Kindergarten Head Teacher
~In-Home Care Provider for an 11-month old, 3 year old, and 6 year old
I began my teaching career working with adolescents with behavioral issues and learning disabilities. It was not an easy crowd, and many students didn’t seem to care about school or learning. Working with these students taught me the importance of cultivating strong, respectful bonds with kids.
I was blown away by the transformative influence my relationships with students had on both their behavior and academic achievement.
I became curious about how these students had acquired certain patterns of behavior in the first place. To get a better understanding of growth and development, I looked for an opportunity to work with younger children.
While earning a Master’s degree, I began teaching full time at an early childhood center. The same skills I’d acquired working with adolescents came in handy with younger children as well. I continued learning how to nurture positive behaviors while effectively discouraging unwanted behaviors.
Parents often came to me at the end of the day and sought my advice about changing their child’s behavior at home. Although I had lots of good ideas to share with them, I realized that my experience in the classroom was fundamentally different from what parents face at home. To give parents tools they could really use, I decided to find an opportunity to work with children in a home environment.
Working as an in-home care provider has given me extraordinary insights into the daily lives of moms and dads, and how their challenges are similar (yet different) from what teachers face in the classroom. It has allowed me to test and refine behavior management methods in wildly different contexts, and the expertise I now offer you is quite unique.
GrowingWithYourChild.com is the website where I will share all that I’ve learned. Every week, I will post new articles that will expand your parental “toolbox” of skills, knowledge and behavior management techniques so you can strengthen family relationships and be exactly the kind of parent you want to be.
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