Ep: 80 - Demystifying Home Childcare
With special guest, Michelle Marks
Welcome to Leading Inspired Learning: A Strive Podcast! In this episode, Ally, Strive Manager, hosts Michelle Marks, a home childcare provider based in London. They discuss the misconceptions around home childcare, its unique challenges, and Michelle’s journey to finding her home in home childcare. Listen, learn, reflect, enjoy!
Guest Bio
Michelle Marks is a Licensed Home Childcare provider working with London Children's Connection - Community Home Childcare in London, ON.
Michelle has worked with families in her neighborhood community for the past 8 years, preparing children for their transition into Junior Kindergarten. She is currently working toward her ECE certification in Fanshawe College London's Child Development Practitioner Apprenticeship program. Michelle is passionate about her childcare journey, the hurdles she overcame to become a care provider, and the positive impact that her early years pedagogy has already had on the children she has had the privilege to care for.
Michelle has lived in London, ON for 17 years where she and her husband, Jeremy are raising their daughters Nora (11) and Claire (8). As a family they enjoy music, game nights, squirrel watching, and their rescue dog "Babs".