Month: June 2018
Natural Cold Remedies For Kids
If you’re a parent to toddlers and young children, it may seem like they catch colds every other week. The truth is, no matter how clean your home is and the daycare facility your child attends, kids transfer their germs to one another at nearly every interaction. Unfortunately, there is still no cure for the…
When To Keep Kids Home Sick From Daycare
As adults, it seems as if we find ourselves in a bind more often than not, especially as parents. If you work a full-time career and you’re a full-time parent to an infant, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners, then you have likely been faced with many obstacles in your daily routine. For example, you have an…
Preparing To Send Your Infant To Day Care
No matter how much you try to prepare for life with an infant by reading blogs, online forums, articles, books, and listening to everyone’s advice—it’s just not possible. Life with an infant is an experience that is different for every family due to every household’s unique situations. Adjusting to life with an infant is more…
Home Activities For Your Toddler
Ah, the toddler years. They’re fun, but they’re busy years! Toddlers have a natural yearning to explore anything and everything, which is why they seem to be non-stop. And just when you think you’ve finally found an activity that will keep your toddler occupied so you can get some things done around the house, your…
Why Day Care is Best for Your Infant
Now that your bundle of joy has arrived, you have to make several necessary arrangements, and child care is likely one of the main concerns. Approximately 60% of new mothers are in the workforce and will return to work once they have reached the end of their maternity leave. Somehow people have fallen for the…
Places Your Preschooler Should Be Going to
There are so many theories and concepts about how to best raise a child. Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish what is a groundbreaking development, and what is simply the latest trend or fad. However, one thing that can be said is that there are a few places that every preschool-aged child should be…
Overcoming Hurdles to Learning
No two children are the same. They all vary in their personalities, interests, and learning styles. Here at Strong Start Early Care & Education, we are focused on many aspects of childcare, from daily needs to an overarching interest and passion for educating young children to give the best, strongest start in life. We believe…
Attachment and Separation Anxiety
It’s hard to imagine a world where children were purposely separated from their parents in order to avoid them becoming attached. This attachment was seen as coddling, and it was thought that the child would grow up to be weak and a less effective adult. This was the case in Western culture up to and…
Raising a Confident Child
When you are watching any playground, there will be children who hold back from the crowd, and those who charge into a crowd and take control. There are tomes of research about the cause of this: is it nature or nurture? In their book, The Confidence Code, by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman look at…
Twins!
When you are the parent of twins, you know that there is no shortage of challenges that parents of singles can only guess. From telling them apart to time management, you will be developing new skills all the time Here at Strong Start Early Care & Education we know that having children is hard and…
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