Working With Your Child’s Strengths and Challenges

Helping children grow academically, socially and emotionally has been a heartfelt mission of mine throughout my life. I have worked in public and private education as a teacher, across all school grades, for more than 4 decades. Kids with special needs and their families occupy an extra soft place in my heart for their courage to help their child navigate their world. Most often, families are on a poignant journey, accompanied by challenging emotions, especially at the beginning of the journey.

I have a Master’s Degree in Learning Disabilities (Kindergarten -12th grade) and for most of my career, I worked at a cutting edge school with wise mentors, where work was done collaboratively, using the latest brain-based research teaching methods and approaches. This support enabled me to zero in on the strengths and challenges of my students.  Although I am now retired, I continue to tutor and stay abreast of the latest developments in this field.

While studying for my advanced degree, I also rekindled my interest in astrology. Over the course of more than 4 decades, I have learned and studied from the best. Also, beginning 6 years ago, I mentored with Steven Forrest, an internationally well-known evolutionary astrologer. My belief is that evolutionary astrology is an effective, positive and complementary tool for parents of a child with special needs. While both education and astrology look at a child’s strengths and challenges, your child’s birth chart can highlight a deeper, and broader view into your child as a learner, communicator, family member, worker, friend, and goal setter. A birth chart can address any number of concerns.

For example:

• What would be most motivating for my child?

• What would naturally improve their self-worth?

• Does my child have an untapped ability?

• What is upsetting for my child?

• What would bring my child greater contentment?

• What strategies might best address specific challenges?

• What are my child’s most important life lessons?

Astrology is a comprehensive quide for answering these questions, and others you may have. It can also shed light on the effectiveness of parenting approaches. Each child deserves the most broadly informed support we can give them.

Like a finger print, each child has their own unique gifts and challenges. Whether your child is gifted, on the autism spectrum, has a physical or medical challenge, struggles with motor, social or emotional skills, or has a learning disability or learning difference, just know that these are just labels. Your child isn’t a label. Your child, like all children, is on a sacred journey to becoming more than the IEP can suggest. There is so much more that can be known.

My experiences as a teacher working with children with learning differences informs and inspires my esteem and empathy for children and their parents. I approach each reading, each family, each child from that place.

Learn More

Here are a few brief blog posts on understanding astrology, your child’s birth chart, and a few of the various exceptionalities or learning differences your child and your family may be facing.