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Welcome to the Strong Start Early Learning Center blog! Keeping informed on your child’s growth and education is important, and Strong Start would like to help you keep up with the latest in what’s happening in the education world and beyond. Check back regularly for articles, updates on Strong Start Early Learning Center curriculum, and other news!
How To Prepare Your Toddler For Daycare
Sending a toddler to daycare can be an intimidating experience for both parents and the child. But with some preparation and planning, you can make the transition easier. Here are four tips on how to prepare your tot for toddler daycare from our team at Strong Start Early Learning Center in Trumbull and Shelton, CT.…
Healthy Snacks For Kids
As busy parents juggling the responsibilities of having children with other expectations of being an adult, we don’t always have time to pick the healthiest snacks for our kids. When shopping for groceries, we too often reach for packaged, factory-created snacks because they are convenient, but we fail to recognize that many of the foods…
What To Look For In A Connecticut Daycare
Finding the right daycare in Connecticut for your child can be overwhelming and exciting at the same time. For starters, you want to find a school where your child will learn, grow, and mature with others. Whether you opt for a childcare center, an in-home daycare, or a family daycare facility, it’s important to do…
Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 2
In our last blog post, we touched on a few of the reasons that introducing your child to a school setting can be so beneficial, but we were far from mentioning all of the ones that we see. In today’s blog post, we will continue to cover a few of the ways that your child…
Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 1
Children are being introduced to education programs at an early age, and while some may feel that this is throwing children to the fire much to early, there are plenty of benefits that we have seen in exposing children to education early on. Maybe the reason that so many people disagree with children attending school…
How To Answer Your Toddler’s “Why” Questions
Toddlers are fun, aren’t they? They’ve reached an age where independence, freedom, and curiosity has overcome them. Toddlers are like sponges, ready to soak up every ounce of information they desire, resulting in non-stop energy. For many parents, the toddler age can be exhausting as they are constantly trying their best to fulfill every demand…
Dealing with Toddler Negativity
Strong Start Early Care & Education offers child care that incorporates early childhood education based on an inquiry-based curriculum. This curriculum nurtures a child’s natural curiosity. We believe this type of education creates emotionally secure children and this leads in turn to children who can confident children who know they can succeed. Toddlers Anyone who…
Is Waiting for Kindergarten Right For Your Child?
When you are looking forward to the momentous day when your child will start kindergarten, you may be experiencing some trepidation as you wonder if your child is truly ready to start their formal schooling. Having mixed feelings is completely normal when sending your baby off to meet their future. Some parents wonder if it…
Summer Activities!
It is summertime once again! With the improved weather comes so many things you can do with your child outside. Here at Strong Start Early Care and Education, we love it when our kids come to day care and tell us about all the fun they have with their parents outside over the summer. If you…
Teaching Children Emotional Intelligence
Experts recognize that there are other types of intelligence than just the IQ that we’ve become accustomed to. It is becoming increasingly apparent that emotional intelligence also plays a role in a person’s success, both personal and business. The daycare teachers at Strong Start Early Care and Education have elements built into the curriculum that…
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