Supernanny Icon: Aibileen Clark
Posted: September 18, 2012 | Author: Mrs. Cheryl | Filed under: Miss Cheryl, Supernanny Icons, Tales, Tips | Tags: aibileen, aibileen clark, baby girl, Boss lady, cherish, compliments, confidence, nanny, self-esteem, the help, viola davis, you is important, you is kind, you is smart | 5 CommentsChildren, on an almost universal level, are always seeking some kind of approval. Some are hoping to feel treasured, others to feel smart, still others to feel that they are a good little person. Some want to be all three, some would be happy for any praise sent in their direction. Welp, enter Miss Cheryl. I am monumentally magnanimous when it coms to doling out accolades on my charges. I praise them to help establish their self-confidence, but mostly I pay them compliments because they are true. Watching The Help, and acknowledging its clearly problematic emphasis on white people capitalizing on black stories, I was so moved on a professional level, by the relationship between Viola Davis’s Aibileen Clark and her charge, Mae Mobley whom she calls “Baby Girl”. In every scene with Mae Mobley, Aibileen’s whole body language changes, into a mode of care and comfort. She’s definitely a Supernanny! Read the rest of this entry »
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