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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…
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…
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…
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.…
Why Inquiry-based Curriculum is Best for Your Child
Strong Start Early Care and Education Center is a day care with a difference. We are a child developement center in Trumbull, CT that is dedicated to fostering intellectual curiosity and the development of critical thought in young children. We know that children are not simply empty vessels to be filled with facts and figures…
What is Attachment Parenting? 1/2
It might be hard for modern parents to imagine that there was a time when parenting was just done, without having to read a shelf of books, having a list of sites bookmarked and online groups to ask questions. Those days when this wasn’t the case were also the day, it would seem, that…
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,…
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…
What is Attachment Parenting? 2/2
Strong Start Daycare in Trumbull is committed to providing the very best in childcare for children from infant stage to pre-school age. We offer flexicare as well as enrichment programs in order to give both parents and children what they need to live successful lives. In our last blog, we started discussing Attachment Parenting. We…
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…
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