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When your child is at child care, it may look like he’s just playing; but he’s actually hard at work. Toddlers learn by playing. Play helps your toddler develop the muscle control, balance and coordination necessary to master gross motor skills like running and pedaling a tricycle. Play also helps your toddler hone the fine motor skills he needs to feed and dress himself. Each new skill your toddler masters prepares him to take the next step in his physical development.
Topics: Learning, Child Care, Toddler Care
Learning is an adventure and a journey we begin the first time we become aware of our surroundings.
According to The Ounce of Prevention Fund, the first three years of a child’s life is especially important as a way to predict future successes — in school and in life. More specifically, they note how “Early experiences that are language-rich and nurturing promote healthy brain development. So finding a high-quality early learning setting is essential for parents who work and seek child care.”
Here are tips to help prepare your toddler for their big day: that first day of child care.
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Topics: Toddler Care
Horizon Education Centers sent out a survey recently to its families to better understand their concerns regarding COVID-19. Part of the survey included a section for questions families have about when the centers reopen. We have put these questions together to help our families make this process easier. The questions and answers are below.
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Topics: Horizon Education Center, Child Care, Summer Camp, Toddler Care
If you’ve read about potty training, talked to friends with young children and are still seeking additional help, here are six potty training tips you may be overlooking.
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Topics: Toddler Care
Language use begins to blossom when a child is a toddler, and there are plenty of ways to encourage your child. Here are four of them.
When you understand what’s typical for the toddler stage, you can:
Topics: Toddler Care
In the past 50 years, kindergarten has moved well beyond block building and naptime. Today, children are expected to hit the ground running on their first day of kindergarten. This doesn’t mean that kindergarten teachers expect their students to arrive knowing how to read and add, but it does mean that kindergarteners are expected to have obtained certain prerequisite skills that will allow them to succeed in school.
Topics: Kindergarten, Learning, Toddler Care
Your toddler who is rather shy or one who is already the life of any gathering. No matter where your child falls on this spectrum, he or she will benefit from age-appropriate opportunities to socialize. Socialization, in fact, is an important part of your child’s development overall — with social milestones helping your child to “manage personal feelings, understand others' feelings and needs, and interact in a respectful and acceptable way.” Read on to learn how socialization benefits toddlers.
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Topics: Toddler Care
Mix mud, water, add toddlers and what do you get? A fantastic, sensory-filled experience that your child will love. At North Olmsted Horizon Education Center, the toddler Mud Day is always a great time for the kids.
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Topics: Summer Camp, Toddler Care
Question: Why is six afraid of seven?
Answer: Because seven “ate” nine!
Question: What did the sea say to the sand?
Answer: Nothing. It just waved!
Question: Why did the boy throw his watch out the window?
Answer: He wanted to see time fly!
Although YOU may not find these riddles side-splittingly funny, it’s likely that your preschooler will laugh out loud at the answers – and may want to ask you these riddles over and over again.
It’s important, though, to encourage the development of humor in your preschooler. Here’s more about why.
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Topics: Preschool, Toddler Care
Is Junior or Juniorette testing your sanity in the potty training arena? If they are, chances are you are committing one of the 7 deadly sins of potty training:
Topics: Toddler Care
