Look and Listen

Biography

As long as she can remember, Cheryl has always loved working with children. She began her career with the typical babysitting. With her first degree in Early Childhood Education, she became the Director of a Daycare and Kindergarten. (Cheryl worked as a bouncer on the weekends to meet potential husbands.) Cheryl's next career move was to the dream position of mother of two. (The bouncer job worked.) While raising her children, she completed a BS in Education from Eastern Michigan University and remained active working with children by teaching religious education, leading a girl scout troop, organizing children's activities for the community and teaching preschool. Eventually, when the children were in school full time, Cheryl went back to teaching full time. While teaching Kindergarten, First and Second grades, she completed her MA in curriculum education. Cheryl presently is in heaven teaching first grade in southeastern michigan.

Inspiration

The inspiration for Being Bella developed because of all the struggles and frustration Cheryl saw her children and classroom children experiencing. She wasn't able to find the right comforting words or literature that could help her little people understand that the goal in all we do isn't perfection, but best work. Children are under immense pressure externally and internally to push themselves to perfection. Being Bella provides strategies that children can naturally incorporate into their thinking which will enable them to be proud of their best work and not compare themselves to others.