Who Is Miss Cherie?

Cherie Mondrella, or "Miss Cherie," is a child and family coach with over 25 years of professional experience. Miss Cherie has a background in child development, early childhood education, Applied Behavioral Sciences, and in parent and educator trainings.

Throughout her earlier career, Miss Cherie taught thousands of preschool children. She also wrote a research-based curriculum for two national daycare chains. In 2002, Miss Cherie wrote curriculum for her own program, Fun-Etics, Inc! Through Fun-Etics classes, over 70,000 children have experienced enrichment in all areas of their development, with a strong emphasis in improving social and emotional competencies.

Miss Cherie has also developed successful behavior intervention programs for at-risk foster children, children with special needs, and for children posing significant behavioral challenges. Miss Cherie specializes in handling some of the most challenging child behaviors with proven positive guidance and redirection techniques and with verbal de-escalation strategies. Miss Cherie also has a strong command of useful behavior modification strategies when warranted.

Miss Cherie has a deep passion for sharing these professional interventions with parents and caregivers to help them restore harmony and happiness in homes and classrooms. Miss Cherie has coached thousands of parents, teachers and caregivers as a national conference presenter and as a national childcare director. Miss Cherie also raised three of her own sons, now young adults, and she fostered seven other boys at a residential childcare facility.

Today, Miss Cherie enjoys bringing the same research-based support to thousands more parents and caregivers via individualized family consultations, parent and educator workshops, and through the "Ask Miss Cherie" YouTube channel. Each week you can find a new "Ask Miss Cherie" YouTube video addressing a topic that parents have requested her to cover. Be sure to subscribe to her channel, and send in your own parenting questions so that Miss Cherie can help YOU find the solutions to YOUR parenting challenges today!