I believe that parents and parent-figures play a critical role in a child's development. Parents are the first teachers and are crucial to a child's growth, development, and resiliency. Parents and caregivers who continue to develop their own parenting skills are more likely to have children who do well in life – mentally, physically, and emotionally. 

I believe that every child can learn, as well as adults, too. Learning is an invaluable opportunity to connect with the world through discovery and imagination. Once learning takes place, it fosters perspective expansion while allowing us to develop new skills for navigating the world in which we live. Learning is not just for children but for everyone!

I believe in the growth mindset where we encourage the idea of learning from our mistakes while understanding that no one is perfect. Of course, we shouldn't expect them to be. The growth mindset individual understands that hard work and dedication is what makes you successful and merely seeing yourself as “smart” limits the mind's potential to learn more. Having a growth mindset will help to establish resiliency and an openness to new concepts and ideas. Now, that's real growth!