Our Story

Baby Ellington is a company dedicated to providing educational and enrichment resources for parents and children. In 2006 our company was created as a result of our four year old daughter returning home from school expressing her hatred for her beautiful head of curly hair. After searching numerous resources, reading articles and shedding some tears late at night, the author, Sabrina Carter, decided to write a poem for her daughter to express how wonderful she is and that poem resulted months later in the first of many positive self image and inspirational books for children.

In September of 2010 Baby Ellington and author Sabrina Carter released its' first book, 'Please Don't Yell at We', in a three part series on the Impact of Positive Parent Child Relationships. With the support and guidance of child psychologist Alicia Henderson, Please Don't Yell at We addresses in a fun and non-threatening way the impact of yelling and has been distributed and shared in workshops nationwide. Currently Baby Ellington is meeting with a number of local and national child advocacy groups around the importance of communicating with our children and the impact that yelling has on their emotional, mental and physical growth. In addition to this author, Sabrina Carter, meets with schools, educational and parent organizations conducting workshops as well as doing chats & author readings to students on the importance of building and maintaining positive relationships with their parents.

The next two books in the series on The Impact of Positive Parent Child Relationships, are titled, "Please Won't You Listen to Me and Please Spend a Little Time with Me." The books deal with the importance of listening to and spending quality time with our children respectively. In conjunction with these two books, Baby Ellington will also be releasing the second edition of "My Hair is Curly", a whimsical tale that seeks to build the confidence and self esteem of children by helping them embrace and celebrate their curly cues.  

The Impact

With the decrease in funding for non-traditional education programs and the growing rate of demeaning behaviors such as playground and cyber bullying, social prejudice, verbal, mental and physical abuse, more cost effective and creative programs are needed to help build awareness and provide educational tools and resources that help strengthen communication among parents, educators, child care providers and our children. While this project or any other alone may not change the world overnight it can have an immediate and lasting effect. Frederick Douglas said, "It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair a broken man"; this project and Baby Ellington seek to aid parents in creating strong children!

Think about these statistics:

- Pre-schoolers are the fastest growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers, over a million, are clinically depressed. [Study published in Psychiatric Services, April 2004. Reported in our health news archive: Pill-Popping Pre-Schoolers, Even Toddlers Get the Blues]

- The rate of increase of depression among children is an astounding 23% p.a. [Harvard University study reported in Harvard Mental Health Newsletter, February 2002.]

- Chronic or life-long (endo