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Wellborn Learning Center – Preschool & Child Care Center Serving Bryan & College Station, TX

Children Write

Their
Own Destiny

As They

DISCOVER

LEARN

& GROW

Children Write

Their
Own Destiny

As They

DISCOVER

LEARN

& GROW

Children Write

Their Own Destiny

As They DISCOVER, LEARN & GROW

Explore Boutique-Style Child Care That Meets Your Every Need

Experience The Difference
Of Locally-Owned Care

Feel welcomed by smiling faces as you drop your kiddo daily at a center that knows what families like yours need. Owned and operated by College Station locals, this is care crafted for your community and your children.

Intentionally Small Classes For
Warmth, Love, & Connection

Your child will be so happy in a nurturing, encouraging environment. Teacher-to-student ratios stay low to ensure they get the individualized attention they need to learn, discover, and grow with an enormous smile every day.

Farm-To-Table Eating Teaches
Your Child About Nature & Health

Your child grows, waters, tends, and harvests vegetables like cucumbers, lettuce, and tomatoes in the garden each day. They learn about nature’s ecosystems and feel excited to eat the tasty, healthy produce they grow.

In The Loop With Frequent
Updates On Your Handy App

Your child’s day is at your fingertips with the free Procare® parent app, where you’ll see real-time updates from their teachers. Stay informed about every feed and diaper change, and enjoy a break from that perfectly natural parent guilt.

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Security Cameras For
Your Peace Of Mind

Internal-use cameras keep a watchful eye as your child plays and grows in the care of CPR-certified staff. Access controls ensure that no unauthorized people can get in, and sturdy fences surround the yard so you can rest easy. 

Teachers With Experience
Nurture Your Little Learner

Your little one’s teachers dedicate themselves to early education. Not only do they hold credentials, including Child Development Associates or bachelor’s degrees, but they bring years of experience to the loving care they offer your child every day.

Our Curriculum Ignites Your Child’s Curiosity

The carefully crafted blend of techniques and approaches that your child experiences every day helps to unlock their potential, imagination, and a lifelong love of learning. They explore interactive, hands-on, exciting activities, scaffolded by world-renowned programs.

• Reggio-Inspired learning centers the child by setting all resources at eye level, so learners can explore and discover independently.

• The research-backed Creative Curriculum® emphasizes experiential learning so your child can apply their discoveries to life.

• Ready 2 Advance transforms your child into a global citizen by blending social-emotional learning with Spanish.

• Weekly STEAM activities unlock their critical thinking through projects that combine science, tech, engineering, art, and math.

Spanish Early Learning
Gives Your Child Advantages

For every new, exciting topic your child explores, they learn Spanish vocabulary through songs, games, and activities. Introducing an additional language at an early age boosts cognitive development and opens your child’s eyes to the world.

Baby Signing, Gardening,
& More Included In Tuition

Engaging enrichments are part of your child’s happy, fun-filled day at no extra cost. They develop early communication skills with daily baby sign language sessions, connect with nature through gardening, and start to think outside the box with fun STEAM experiments. 

2 Fun, Safe Playgrounds
For Outdoor Adventures

Watch your little one let loose each day as they skip, jump, run, and play in the fresh air. With 2 age-appropriate playgrounds, your kiddo builds their gross motor skills at their own pace, and in the garden, they plant and tend the veggies they’ll snack on later.

A Director On Site Every Day
To Make You Feel Welcome

Seeing the same, happy, familiar faces every day makes your child feel confident and gives you peace of mind. Feel free to communicate with your teachers and an engaged, on-site director about what’s best for your child.

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Interview: Natalia Pakhotina – Russian Cultural Center

– Tell your story in America. Where did you study and work before Texas? Was Texas your choice, or was it a coincidence?

I came to the USA from Siberia, from Novosibirsk Academgorodok, both my husband and I graduated from Novosibirsk State University, however, in different specialties: I am an economist, and he is a physicist. Together they decided to continue their studies in the USA for a doctoral degree. Getting into one university wasn’t easy, but fortunately we were both accepted at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Texas was not a conscious choice, it so happened that my husband was offered a job at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and we moved to College Station (College Station), a year later I also got a job at the university, so we stayed in Texas.

– Please tell us about your work. Which of your projects stand out the most and why?

It will soon be 10 years since I have been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at TAMU. I love my job: it is creative, it always makes me develop and grow professionally, master new technologies, and this year I suddenly had to master video editing. I also like the fact that teachers have a freer schedule than in other professions, long vacations for the new year and summer. Not to say that there are projects in the teaching work, we rather have semesters and courses. I remember how scary it was for the first time to go to a class where 250 students were sitting in the audience at once. But then, on the contrary, it became more comfortable when there are a lot of students, and if the hall is half full, then something seems to be missing. It is remembered when the semester went well, there was good contact with students, when at the end of the semester they come to you to shake hands and say thank you. For one year, I tried to organize the Study Abroad program – to take American students to Russia in the summer, I planned to show them Moscow and St. Petersburg. For the program to be approved, 10 students had to be recruited. Just before the spring break, there were just 10 people, the program was approved, and then during the holidays one student changed his mind and everything was suddenly canceled. It was a shame, since then I haven’t tried it anymore, but maybe someday in the future it will be possible to implement this project.

What do you like most about Texas?

We haven’t lived anywhere but the south of the USA, so it’s hard for me to compare. I love the Texas fall, winter, and spring – the fact that most of the year you can leave the house without wearing warm clothes. Spring flowering in the fields. That you can at least every day cook food on the street on the grill. I like many economic factors: relatively low prices, a good labor market. We enjoy going to local events like Brazos Valley Fair and Rodeo, TAMU Physics Festival. It is very nice that people, organizations and the city always try to organize family events.

– What traditions and habits have you retained from your pre-Texan life?

We always cook soups at home (borscht is our favorite) and pancakes, and for the holidays we make Olivier and other Russian salads. We continue according to the Russian tradition to celebrate the New Year more than Christmas. We want our children to know and love the snowy winter, for this, from the age of 3 we take them regularly to the skating rink, and in winter we try to go “to the snow”. True, it didn’t work out this year, but snow itself came to us in Texas, a lot of snow fell, so the children even built a snow fort in front of the house.

– How are your relations with your homeland? Do you miss any aspects of life at home?

Yes, I miss you very much, I am always drawn to Russia, I try to keep in touch with my friends who stayed there. But I don’t follow the news, I usually learn about everything from friends and relatives. I travel to Russia with great joy, I miss the change of seasons, golden autumn and snowy winter, my hometown, friends and parents. There is not enough cultural life in a big city, we live here in a small city, there are not enough theaters, museums, a center where you can walk around.

– Please tell us about your family.

Our family is friendly: me, my husband and three daughters. Home is always fun and there is something to do. It will soon be 20 years since my husband and I have been together. The older daughters are twins, they are 10 years old, and the younger one is 8.

– What do you do outside of work? What are your interests and hobbies?

I love to travel! Sometimes I draw, in the past I regularly practiced yoga, skated, now I suddenly took up tennis. I love watching movies and reading books, baking cakes, playing board games, going to the Escape Room with my friends.

– What else would you like to tell us about yourself?

Our family loves to travel, we try to go somewhere whenever possible. Last year we were in Montenegro and Russia, in the winter we often go to Vermont, this year we went to Colorado in the summer, and in the fall we went closer – to Lake Travis. We are strongly connected with Austin, as my husband has been working at General Motors in the north of Austin in recent years, and three years ago we seriously considered moving, then it did not work out, but who knows, maybe in the future we will still become residents of your wonderful city!

– How do you participate in the life of the Russian-speaking community in Texas?

Most of all, I am involved in organizing children’s events. College Station, unlike Austin, is a small city and does not have its own Russian school, so if we want to attend some Russian-language events for children, then the parents themselves need to organize everything. For five or six years now, my friends and I have been holding a New Year’s party for children with fairy-tale characters, Santa Claus, gifts, contests in Russian. We have a Russian-speaking children’s theater, also completely amateur, under the guidance of parents. We ourselves are directors, and producers, and make-up artists, and sound engineers, and stage workers. They staged musical performances “New Year’s Adventures of Masha and Vitya” and “Mama”, and last year they swung at Pinocchio, and, despite the coronavirus and a break in rehearsals for six months, they nevertheless recently staged a performance in a street amphitheater.

Photo: Inna Krieger

But we are also actively involved in other events: we organize barbecues in the park, celebrate Maslenitsa, play “What? Where? When?” in the art gallery Degallery.

– What events do you remember the most?

All our children’s performances left vivid memories. Individual meetings are remembered. For example, how they saw off friends who were leaving the city for good, or how last year a huge Russian-speaking company gathered in the park for barbecue just shortly before everything closed due to a pandemic and it became impossible to meet with a large company.

What are your favorite books and movies?

Different books at different ages. As a child, for example, I adored “The Headless Horseman” by Mine Reed, the book takes place in Texas and then it seemed so exotic, who would have thought that then I would live here! In her youth, she was very fond of Eco, Fowles, Maugham, Bulgakov, Strugatsky, Khmelevskaya. Then my husband got me into fantasy and sci-fi, I was one of George R.R.R. Martin’s early A Song of Ice and Fire fans long before the series, and even met him when he came to AggieCon at College Station in 2013. By the way, it was our library at TAMU that he chose as the official repository of his correspondence, manuscripts and books. Now I’m mostly reading children’s books again – the circle is complete. I often don’t have enough time and energy to read for myself, but sometimes it happens that I still read something new. In recent years, Kurt Vonnegut has made the biggest impression on me. Not to say that this is a pleasant read, but it makes you think, and he knows how to surprise with unexpected plot twists. From the fascinating reading recently, I liked Expanse (by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), at first I liked the series, so I wanted to read the book as well.

I also like a variety of films. Every New Year, for example, we always watch a musical comedy from childhood – “Magicians”. I really love the old Soviet adaptation of Maugham’s Theater with Viya Artmane, Sherlock Holmes with Livanov and Solomin, Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, in my opinion, everything came together perfectly in these films: actors, script, directing, music. From romantic comedies, I like Bridget Jones’s Diary the most (and the book, by the way, too), from recent films – I won’t be original – I liked the mini-series Queen’s Gambit.

– What would you like to wish the Russian-speaking residents of Austin and Texas?

Health, prosperity, do not forget the Russian language and culture and continue to keep Austin weird!

Contact information:

TAMU personal page: https://econ.tamu.edu/nataliya-pakhotina

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliya-pakhotina

90 002 Facebook : https://www. facebook.com/nataliya.pakhotina

Email: [email protected]

Interviewed by: Dmitry Ovcharenko

Editor: Olga Falkovsky

Publisher: Russian Cultural Center 900 09