My Purpose

I want to equip you for the challenges of caring for children by learning to take care of yourself and understand the physical, emotional, and neurological needs of the people in your family or classroom.

Teaching and fostering are my passions! As a foster mom, my husband and I have parented over 40 foster children in our home with different personalities, needs, and trauma that changed how their brains worked. 

I would love to share with you what I have learned about identifying and meeting children’s needs over the years. As a teacher, I spent ten of my eighteen years teaching elementary in an isolated village. As a result, I had the opportunity to love and learn from children in my classroom that would not typically be in a regular school setting. I had a few students with severe behavior challenges, a legally deaf child, a child who was in diapers and was non-verbal in third grade, and students with significant fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

Prevention and intervention strategies are crucial to supporting children, their families, and classrooms. It begins with understanding, so we can extend children’s ability to function and learn without pushing them in ways that cause negative behaviors or in ways that could sabotage their healing and progress.

More recently, I experienced a traumatic brain injury that changed how my brain works and the amount of information I can process before I experience symptoms or it shuts down. It has opened my eyes to understanding my students and foster children’s blank looks or needs for long naps. Not only have I come to understand the frustration of a brain that works differently, but I have learned strategies that help to engage in life to increase the brain’s ability to function. I would love to share these strategies with you for your children.

As some readers have commented, I hope my insight and strategies as a mom and teacher create positive changes in your children and your relationship with them.

My book and blog take you along on my journey to let you know you are not alone in yours. 

BE BRAVE & LOVE WELL!

Robin LaVonne Hunt