Meet Miss Deanna (pronouns: she/her)

Originally from Seattle, Deanna returned to the Pacific Northwest after a 20-year career in L.A.’s music industry. Once settled in Portland, she began pursuing the work she knew was her life’s passion and pursuing the career path of her university education. early childhood Deanna’s studies and training expanded to include Waldorf Early Childhood Education and Lifeways Early Childhood philosophies. She dreamed of creating spaces for little ones that offered them opportunities to learn and grow through nature-based free play. Remembering the absence of this type of child care option while raising her own children, Deanna recognized a need that wasn’t being filled and went to work filling this need in her own community. Deanna founded Wow and Flutterville with the mission of creating a “home-away-from-home” for infants, toddlers and preschoolers that honors attachment parenting, family nursing choices, Mother Nature, inclusion, community, and a child's most important work: to play.

Music, the arts, yoga, movement, song, and time spent in nature fill each day at Wow and Flutterville Playgardens. Committed to creating a playgarden culture based on kindness, repair, equity, empathy, community and inclusion in beautiful, warm, inspiring home settings, Deanna opened her first playgarden 12 years ago. Since then, her program has expanded to 3 childcare centers, which we call playgardens.

In addition to being the owner of Wow and Flutterville, Deanna enjoys spending time with her husband, her daughters and their dogs and hamster. Her other loves include Kundalini yoga, nature, the arts and music. Deanna looks forward to caring for and inspiring your babies and precious children at times when they can't be under your loving care.

I am Deanna Cohen, it’s nice to meet you,