Calling all mums and dads
We have a brand new feature on ECR: Parenting 101 - daily parenting tips from Durban-based expert Jenni Johnson...
* Catch Jenni on-air every day just after 10am with her tip of the day.
Jenni Johnson is our resident ‘Baby Whisperer’. She’s been a practicing child-care practitioner for 15 years, and owns a busy ante and post natal clinic in Durban.
Jenni teaches a system that has given parents structure and routine to the baby and childhood years.
Jenni has a nursing background. She’s a registered nurse, midwife, psychiatric nurse and private nurse practitioner.
“In my working hours I spend 45 minutes with each consultation that I do and have always felt a need to reach out to more new parents but could not, simply because there are not enough hours in a day! …so I launched an online clinic in 2009,” she says.
“Through the years I have had many clients from all over the world. They buy consultations online [www.jennisays.com] and have the back up of being able to ask me questions relevant to their child/children at any time.
“From the one-month old baby who hadn’t stopped crying from birth, to the mum who was so unsure about everything, to the year-old child who had never eaten a finger food, to the 19-month-old toddler who had never slept for longer than an hour at a time - my clinics allow me the opportunity to help solve these concerns for all new parents.”
Jenni is compiling the knowledge she’s gained into a series of booklets that will become chapters of a book that she is hoping to publish in 2013.
“As the years have passed, I find myself bringing life skills into the advice I give and am finding that whether teaching a parent about a child, or a child to sleep properly, or how to behave - it is in a sense the same thing - because with direction, consistent advice, routine, understanding and nurturing the end result will be successful.”
Jenni’s online clinic, can be accessed online via www.jennisays.com. For appointments, e-mail [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter via @JenniSays or on Facebook by 'liking' The Berea Baby Clinic.