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Infant Caregivers Should Be Celebrated and Treated Respectfully!

Writer's picture: Nanci BradleyNanci Bradley

Updated: Jun 4



If you care for children during their first few years of life, I'm talking about you. Whether you're a provider, a parent, a grandparent or a health care provider, you're building their ability to care for others, with every caring interaction you have with them. It's not easy to make those interactions special. In order to do that you have to be cared for, too.


Stressed out caregivers don't produce relaxed environments filled with happy and relaxed children.


Do you work and live with people who care for and support you? If you don't, it might be time to make a change.


According to current research from Harvard University, the infant brain forms more than 1 million neural connections every second! And those connections form the foundation for all learning over the child's lifespan. So their experiences, both positive and negative, really do matter more than we previously believed.



That means you and your feelings matter. A lot.


Here's a mindset trick that you can use to feel better about everything when toddlers misbehave. Although it might feel at times that they're out to get you, it's probably just this....

Have a wonderful week!





Nanci J Bradley is an early childhood and family educator, author, teacher, family aerobics instructor, and an all-around fun-loving person. She believes in the power of sleep, healthy eating, lifelong learning, and most of all, PLAY!  She studied early childhood ed at Triton College and received her BS in education in 1986 from NIU. She received her MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College in 2011. She lives and teaches in Madison WI.



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