Meet the Founder

Why I Created EarlyChildhoodEduNet

EarlyChildhoodEduNet grew from my journey in early childhood education, my work with children and families, and my curiosity about how children learn.

For a long time, I noticed that my own brain was always busy, constantly thinking, exploring new ideas, and looking for the next challenge. I started recognising that many of the things I experienced were similar to ADHD traits, although I do not have a formal diagnosis. Understanding this shifted the way I looked at learning, attention, and behaviour, not just in myself, but in the children I worked with too. It made me curious about how children experience the world, and what happens when we look past behaviour and try to understand the child behind it.

I’m Dewi Griffith, and I have a PhD in Early Childhood, a Master’s degree in Education, and professional training in early childhood education, training and assessment, and social media marketing.

None of that learning happened only through study, though. I’ve worked directly with children and families, completed NDIS training, and spent time working as a support worker. Those years taught me things no course could. I saw how much pressure parents carry trying to do right by their child, often without anyone telling them clearly what actually helps. I saw how a small, practical change could ease a whole evening, and how often the missing piece wasn’t more effort from an already exhausted parent, it was the right kind of support, offered at the right moment.

I still think about the families who let me sit with them through the hard, ordinary parts of their week, the tantrums before school, the worksheets nobody wanted to finish, the quiet worry about whether their child was doing okay. Those moments shaped this website more than any textbook did. They’re the reason everything I make starts with a real situation rather than a theory, a tired parent at the kitchen table, a teacher with fifteen minutes before the bell, a child who just needs one small reason to try.

Over the years, I have learned that children do not all learn in the same way. The more I worked with children and families, the more I noticed the importance of creating learning experiences that feel practical, engaging, and achievable.

During COVID 19 in 2022, while a lot of the usual ways of working with families were on pause, I completed a Victorian Government funded digital marketing program. It taught me how to actually share what I knew online instead of keeping it inside classrooms and home visits, and that’s really where the idea for this website started. The first thing I ever made was a single worksheet with a one-line story scribbled at the top, mostly just to see if it would change anything. It did. That small shift, giving a task a reason to matter before asking a child to sit still for it, is still the idea everything here is built around.

This website is a place where I share ideas, activities, and resources based on my studies, professional experiences, and ongoing learning. I’m also continuing my own professional development through PESI Australia and PDP autism focused training, because I’ve come to see learning as an ongoing process rather than something you finish once and move past.

I am always learning too. My goal is to create resources that make it easier for parents and educators to find simple ways to support children’s learning, without pretending I have every answer, because I don’t, I’m still figuring plenty of this out myself, one worksheet and one honest conversation at a time.

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