Child Development Specialist & Early Childhood Educator
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Şeyma Gül (Talmaç) is a Child Development Specialist with a Bachelor's degree in Child Development and Education from Istanbul University. With over 12 years of hands-on experience in early childhood education, she has dedicated her career to nurturing young minds through play-based learning and creative approaches.
In 2017, Şeyma founded and directed her own preschool in Erzurum, Turkey, where she led a team of educators for six years, developing innovative curricula that combined creative drama, art-based assessment, and cognitive games. She holds 13 professional certifications including Creative Drama, Child Assessment Tests, Drawing Analysis, and Mind & Intelligence Games Training.
Her expertise spans classroom-tested strategies for preschool readiness, social-emotional development, and creative play. She brings a unique perspective that bridges professional education practice with practical parenting guidance.
A newborn who feeds in bursts all evening and sleeps only against your chest is doing two ordinary things at once. Neither one is a habit you accidentally taught.
The light goes off, the door closes to the exact width your child demanded, and within ninety seconds a small voice calls out that there is something in the clo...
On the first morning of kindergarten, a five-year-old once stood at the classroom cubbies and recited the alphabet for me, flawlessly, both directions. Then the...
A three-year-old hands you a page covered in loops and announces, “It's a dog.” You see a tangle. He sees a dog. Most adults smile, say “lovely,” and miss the f...
The internet will sell you a translator. Apps that turn your baby's wails into five neat categories. Books with chapters on “the five distinct cries.” A whole s...
In February 2022, the CDC moved walking from twelve months to fifteen. The babies hadn't changed. The chart had.For decades, the official developmental checklis...
Your daughter walks into the kitchen with marker all over her hands. The wall behind the couch now has a green stripe running across it at three-year-old height...
Two four-year-olds are rolling on the carpet, grabbing each other's arms, laughing so hard they can barely breathe. Nobody is crying. Nobody is angry. And every...
Parents photograph the picture. They tape it to the fridge, text it to grandparents, sometimes post it online. But the picture is the least interesting part of...
"Good job!" You've said it today. Probably more than once. Your toddler stacked two blocks and you said it. She put on her own shoe — wrong foot, but still — an...
Your toddler points at the sky and says "boo." Then she points at the grass. "Boo." The dog. "Boo." Everything in her world has become blue. You're starting to...
Your toddler has been inside for two hours. She's climbed the couch twice, emptied a kitchen drawer, and tried to scale the bookshelf. You've redirected her six...
Your toddler picks up a blueberry. She holds it between her thumb and one finger, studies it for half a second, then drops it into her mouth. Three seconds. You...
Watch what happens at a family gathering when a two-year-old ends up in a room with a five-year-old cousin. The toddler doesn't play beside her. She plays with...
A twenty-month-old watches her father sit on the couch and rub his eyes. He's had a long day. She walks over, presses her palm flat against his knee, and just s...
Every toddler has that one thing. The blue cup. The left shoe first. The exact same route to the park, every single morning, no exceptions. The moment you chang...
Your toddler is banging a wooden spoon on an upside-down pot. The noise is terrible. She has been at it for five minutes straight, getting louder with every hit...
Thirty years ago, a two-year-old’s morning looked like this: blocks on the carpet, mud in the backyard, maybe a picture book before lunch. Nobody worried about...
Between 20% and 25% of children aged one to five resist bedtime on a regular basis. That number comes from a clinical review published by the American Academy o...
You cooked it from scratch. Cut it into small pieces. Put it on the plate with the right fork. Your toddler looked at it, pushed it away, and asked for crackers...
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