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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…

Flex Care

Strong Start Early Care and Education in Trumbull is proud to provide high-quality child care that meets your child’s needs while accommodating the parents’ schedule too. We offer Flex care to accommodate hard-working parents’ schedules. Flex Care Day Care in the summer can be a conundrum. You need the kids cared for while you work…

Tantrum Coping Skills

Between the ages of three and five, your toddler blooms into a preschooler. This time with your precious child is full of delights and new challenges. One such challenge is dealing with tantrums. During this phase of development, most children are learning to deal with their emotions. Outings can become a new kind of challenge.…

How to deal with toddler negativity and other child care solutions

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…

How a bedtime routine sets the stage for a good night

A Bedtime Routine Sets the Stage for Good Night

Our day care in Trumbull is called Strong Start Early Care & Education and we believe in doing everything we can to give children just that, a strong start in life and education. We offer programs for preschoolers, toddlers, and infants. During these early years of life, patterns are set that will determine future behavior,…

The Benefits Of Early Childhood Education Reach Beyond Your Child

Here at A Strong Start Early Care & Educationin in Trumbull, we understand just how important early childhood education is to your little one. Many people may not realize this, but the first years of your child’s life is their most important years. Our early childhood education program gives your children distinct advantages to make…

The Importance of Nighttime Self-Soothing

It has been said that the most important thing we can teach our children is frustration tolerance. Every adult needs this skill and it is important to learn this skill early, as life will deliver frustrations at regular intervals from the earliest days. One of the earliest chances we have to teach our children this…

Common myths about early childhood education debunked

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…

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…

Why our Sheldon day care center is different from the rest

A Day Care with a Difference

Strong Start Early Care and Education Center is more than a daycare, we are a childhood education center that uses an inquiry-based curriculum. We believe that this curriculum fosters independent thought and problem solving skills that will enable a child to have an edge in the future. We can’t even begin to imagine the world…