day care centers

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…

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…

Overcoming Hurdles to Learning

No two children are the same. They all vary in their personalities, interests, and learning styles. Here at Strong Start Early Care & Education, we are focused on many aspects of childcare, from daily needs to an overarching interest and passion for educating young children to give the best, strongest start in life. We believe…

Two young girls peeking up from behind a bush

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…

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…

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…

Using inquiry based learning and child care services in the snow

Using Inquiry Based Learning in the Snow

At Strong Start Learning Center, we believe that every day is a good day to learn and that every experience can be used to broaden a child’s horizons. We offer quality daycare and pre-k in the Trumbull and Bridgeport areas. While there is snow on the ground, take the chance to have fun and help…

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…

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…