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Family Consultant –

NVQ Level 3 in children’s care, learning and development. • Diploma in Child and Adolescent Counselling. • Diploma in advanced special educational needs. • Diploma in Play Therapy.
• Certificate in Paediatric first aid. • Level 3 certificate in Forest School Training. • Training certificates in autism awareness, behaviour management, birth to five, speech and language in the early years and cosmic yoga.

For the past few years while building my company and making my nurseries busy and successful, I have spent a lot of time with various families supporting them through different obstacles.

Hi, I’m Sally-Ann Makin and I’m the creator of
Makin Connections. I am predominantly a childcare practitioner/ provider with 20 years of experience in the field. 

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I am the founder of Potter’s House Preschool Limited which houses three nurseries (so far) – Potter’s House Preschool, Blossom and Bloom Day Nursery and Garden of Eden Preschool. 

I hold many and various different childcare related qualifications, including child and adolescent counselling and play therapy.

For the past few years while building my company and making my nurseries busy and successful, I have spent a lot of time with various families supporting them through different obstacles. I have worked with families providing guidance through tricky stages of child development such as poor eating habits, sleep training and more complex concerns such as referrals to the child development centre. I have supported childcare practitioners with their qualifications through apprenticeships and advised other settings planning to open. 

I also write articles for ABC Magazine that focus on various areas of child development – somewhere in there I do school runs and swimming lessons and football training but I’ll be honest, I rarely manage to cook a hearty meal and my washing basket is NEVER empty.

On a personal level, I am a mum of 4, step-mum of 2 girls and am married to my very lovely mechanic. Between us my husband and I have 3 girls aged 15, 12 and 11, 3 boys aged 9, 10 and baby Eden who is 9 months. Life is crazy and busy and flying by so quickly that I sometimes have to remind myself to stop and take it all in.

Raising children is hard, nobody ever really wants to admit that they find it hard because society is always showing us that everyone around us finds it a breeze. I’m yet to meet a parent who hasn’t googled something along the lines of  ‘why won’t my baby sleep’ or ‘why is my toddler biting’. Or a parent who admits that the temptation to go and hide in a pantry (or the toilet) to cry for a minute or eat the snacks you’ve been hiding because you’re trying to promote fruit to your kids and want to set an example is all encompassing. 

But this is where I can help – with downloadable easy to follow guides with realistic and non judgemental tips for all those tricky phases of child development to ease the ‘parent guilt’ and help you to enjoy those short years that they’re children.

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