My career as an Early Childhood Education teacher started already in 1981. One year later I started my ten-year lasting job as a chef in a Kindergarten. After my Special Education studies, I worked 17 years consulting Early Childhood Education teachers in the town of Rauma. I interrupted my special education teacher work for one year because I was establishing a Day Care Center to the neighbor municipality. After completing my Master´s degree I worked for two years in a national welfare project "Kaste" as a project planner. The purpose of that project was to develop psychosocial services to children under 18 years old in an area of four municipalities. In Rauma we succeed to develop a model of Family Center with a multi-professional group of professional workers in the area. The Family Center started to work three years after the project ended. During this project, my interest in children´s participation grew and I made my study plan to the University of Turku. Soon after the acceptance to the University, I got a place of a doctoral candidate. In another area in the welfare project "Kaste", in Parainen, there was introduced International Child Development Programme. I started to study the principles of ICDP and now I´m an educated ICDP teacher. Now I´m working as a University Teacher. Half of my work is Special Education and working as a teacher tutor to the students. The other 50 % is the work of Project Manager in a project of InnoPlay (2019-2021) which is a project of the Ministry of Culture and Education. It concerns developing Craft and Technology Education and Digitalization. I have coordinated teacher collaboration between the University of Turku and the University of Namibia in the Department of Teacher Education (2018-2019) due to the voluntary work I have made with Namibian students at the same time. My mixed-methods study (monography) concerning children's´, teachers´, and parents´ participation in Kindergarten is waiting until I finish the InnoPlay project.