About Me
Teacher, Mother, Wife
I'm Jamie, nice to meet you!
When I was pregnant the first time, I took an improv class. I was participating in a game where your only task is to keep talking, the whole time, without stopping. I was randomly assigned the topic of babies. I started talking about how I don't know much of anything about babies, I'd never actually been around any, and how unfortunate since I was pregnant with my first baby. After the activity, a soft-spoken woman (who was very funny on stage) came up to me and asked if it was true or whether I was just riffing. She offered me a piece of advice, a book she said had changed her life. The book was Dear Parents: Caring for Infants with Respect by Magda Gerber. This book would go on to change my life, teaching me how to see babies as whole, entire people.
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This realization was the first thing I learned about parenting my own kids. I had worked with kids for years and thought that I already understood them. But parenting my own children led me down a path of self-discovery that I never expected. It has been challenging and painful, but also rewarding and uplifting.
Career
I started my career in consulting, doing design work for public engineering projects as well as construction project management. I have also worked in museum education as well as consulted on STEAM education curriculum for informal settings.
Education
I hold a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering as well as a Masters in Education focusing on curriculum and instruction. I have taken additional early childhood development courses as well as positive discipline classes and other parenting courses.
How Did I Get Here?
Everywhere I go, I meet people who ask me questions about the parenting they see me doing. They can see that there's something different and they want to break cycles, too. I have become a natural leader in this space and can't wait to share what I've learned with everyone.