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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…
Inquiry-Based Learning for Toddlers
Strong Start Early Care and Education Center offers high-quality day care in the Trumbull / Bridgeport area. We use an inquiry-based curriculum. You may well ask how an inquiry-based curriculum is implemented for very young children. We’ve talked, in recent blogs about questions that spur thinking and problem-solving in pre-k children, but what do…
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…
Early Milestones
All new parents wonder if what their infant or toddler is doing is normal. You might be asking yourself if they are on track developmentally. Strong Start Daycare in Trumbull is very familiar with these thoughts, and in an attempt to ease your mind and let you know that you are part of a wider…
Balancing Attachment Parenting with Your Own Needs
Our blog series on attachment parenting has focused on the baby, just as attachment parenting does, but parents are human beings too, with our own needs and desires. Surely there is room for balance in this technique. Strong Start Early Care and Education in Trumbull is more than a daycare. We like you to consider…
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