Shawn & Brian are visited by Faith Golden, a special education teacher, childhood development professional, & Grandmother to a child with a rare condition, Tuberous sclerosis. Join in as she shares her journey, challenges, & lessons.
Faith’s career with children goes back to age 8 when she began as a mother’s helper in her neighborhood. The parents really appreciated having an extra pair of hands, especially the family with four children, two of them twins.
Her major in college was a natural one, Home Economics with an emphasis on Child Development. The child development classes included developmental milestones, child psychology, family systems and a lot of observation and practice in the campus preschool.
Faith graduated with her degree and teaching credential in Home Economics. She continued her course work with epidemiology and health science classes and a course to become a Lamaze teacher, which she taught for 13 years while she raised her son and daughter.
When a fellow Lamaze teacher asked her, she took a job working with pregnant and parenting mentally disabled adults and found the work so fascinating that she went back to school to get a master’s degree and credential to teach Early Childhood Special Education.
After teaching special education adults and children for close to 20 years and working with over 2400 families. Faith left to open It’s Aparent, Parenting and Behavior Specialists so she could work with individual families, with both “typical” and special needs children, to empower them to be the parents to their children that they always wanted to be. Faith also wanted to help all families whose children had special needs to navigate the special education system.
Today, Faith is the Nana to 7 wonderful grandkids ranging in age from 11 to 26 months. She volunteers at (Child Development Institute) CDI helping with Child Development Screenings and other areas of need.
