Early Childhood Development
Welcome to the Early Childhood Development blog, brought to you by Strong Start Early Learning Center. In this blog, we cover topics relevant to childhood development, including guides on local care, socialization, early learning, and preschool daycare. Check back regularly for news, article, and updates.
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…
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…
Common Myths Surrounding Early Childhood Education Debunked
Today we’re fact checking and debunking some of the biggest misconceptions and myths about children and early childhood education programs. Myth #1: The Achievement Gap Isn’t A Real Problem. It’s completely unreasonable to deny the existence of an obvious achievement gap in education and by doing so, it perpetuates the problem and the myth. If…
Teaching for the Future
Strong Start Early Learning Center is an Early Care and Education Center providing high-quality care for children in the Trumbull and Bridgeport area. We support emotional, physical, and cognitive growth for all the children in our care through a curriculum that is centered on early childhood development. Our curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach to teaching.…
On the Importance of Daydreaming
Here at Strong Start, we like to stay up to date on the latest thought and research about education and educational psychology, so we can better assist your children on a day-to-day basis with learning in the most effective ways. A recent article on KQED News entitled Why Daydreaming is Critical to Effective Learning, got…
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…
How Early Childhood Education Becomes the Foundation for a Life of Learning
Your child’s early childhood education will become the foundation of their educational experience throughout their life. That’s why we place so much emphasis on creating a positive, successful for the child in our early childhood education program in Trumbull! We want to teach young children to have a love of learning, so they can be…
Inquiry-based Learning: Asking Questions
Strong Start Child Early Care and Education is dedicated to an early childhood education that is inquiry-based because we believe that learning from the inside-out creates life-long learners that are successful problem solvers and are emotionally secure. Â Some education methods see children merely as sponges to take in information that will be used later,…
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