Teaching is a very rewarding job and a valuable career. The main role of the teacher is to deepen the knowledge and understanding of each child in the class, which can sometimes be very difficult. Although I am not yet a teacher, I have had many educational interactions with children. I am a math teacher for a primary school student named Chaniya who lives in my neighborhood and, also, a nanny for a two-year-old named Regina. In this article, I intend to discuss the educational experiences I had with each child and how I helped them achieve their educational goals. The children I work with are normally still in their sensitive period. The sensitive period is the age range during which a certain aspect of a child's development is particularly sensitive to environmental conditions (Ormrod, 2008 p. 25). During their sensitive period, children are influenced by environmental factors such as parenting practices, family structures, educational activities at home, and community learning opportunities. I believe all of these factors influence a child's educational opportunities. A child learns to adapt and make acquisitions during his sensitive period. There are different stages of the sensitive period which are determined by the age of the child. Ages generally range from birth to six years. The children I worked with were both in the birth to six age range. There are many aspects to a child's sensitive period. First, I will discuss the parenting practices of the children I work with. Parenting styles have been described as the set of parental behaviors that create an atmosphere of parent-child interaction in all situations (Menon, 2013). The two young girls...... middle of paper ......nce to work with children and be part of the infrastructure of the educational process that will evolve throughout their lives.Works CitedBallarini, F. , Martinez, M.C., Perez, M.D., Moncada, D., & Haydee, V. (2013). Memory in an elementary school child is improved by a new, unrelated experience. PLOS, 8(6), Menon, A. (2013). Children's perception of parental styles in relation to school career. Golden Research Thoughts, 3(3)Obukhova, LF and Korepanova, IA (2009). The zone of proximal development: A spatio-temporal model. Journal of Russian and European Psychology, 47(6), 25-47.Ormrod, JE (2008). Educational psychology: Developing learners. (6th ed.). CarlislePublishing Services. Sherwood, R. and Pearson, J. (2010). Closing the mind's eye: Incoming luminance signals disrupt visual imagery. PLoS ONE, 5(12), 1-6.