Child development

She's been teaching since 2009 and has spent a decade working with children, parents, and educators through astrology, yoga, mindfulness, healing, and early childhood education.

With extensive training in astrology, yoga, and Meditation, Energy, Healing, and Childhood Development, Danielle brings together ancient wisdom, mystical teachings, and her real-world experience working with children and families.

Her work explores everything from Burt Chart to her medic philosophy, meditation, ritual, and the deeper questions children naturally ask about who they are and the world around them.

Little Mystic School grew out of Danielle's own healing journey and the transformation that came through becoming a mother.

[instrumental music] Hello, this is Alexis Halkovic, your host for Catching North Stars.

This is season two, episode six, Be in the Room: Cognitive Privacy, Childhood Development, and What We Owe Kids in the Age of AI with Timothy Cook.

Part of our season, Being Cyborgs, where we explore the ways people are learning from and getting creative with technology as it evolves at breakneck speed.

Timothy Cook teaches third grade in Amman, Jordan.

And that was the beginning of my journey as a podcaster.

I got two master's degrees, one in psychology focused on child development, another in education, and just kind of sharing what I was learning as I was going with other parents and sort of developing my own approach from there.

Yeah.

And what I love most about your podcast is that you just take all of this research and I call it evidence-based parenting because you're just putting all of it into, you know, what's actually going to work, what's going to help, what's going to be best for my child.

And it's amazing how I know, like with the Rye research, that it really goes to the newborn period where children do respond to things that their parents say.

They do, yeah.

And RIE itself is actually not an evidence-based framework, but because so much of my work is evidence-based, and I think I've read definitely more than 10,000 academic articles and books on parenting and child development at this point, it's kind of my jam.

And so I was curious at one point, if you look at the main principles of RIE, are they actually supported by academic research? And I found that the vast majority of them are.