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The Top 10 Qualities of a Great Child Care Provider & Preschool Teacher
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7 Gift Ideas for Child Care Provider Appreciation Day
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How I Started a Home Daycare When My Baby Was Born (and Her Dad Left Us)
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Is Full-Time Daycare Too Much?
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How to Choose a Special Needs Preschool
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5 Reasons Why Your Child Should Attend a Language Immersion Preschool
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6 Tips for Raising Multilingual Children
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5 Common Sense Benefits of Preschool
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How To Prepare for Preschool Picture Day
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4 Reasons To Take Your Kids To The Library – Happy National Library Week!

The Top 10 Qualities of a Great Child Care Provider & Preschool Teacher

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Taylor Abrams

Thanks for bringing up the fact that a real early childhood educator is someone with a heart since young children…

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Being a great child care provider or preschool teacher is a tough job that doesn’t usually get the type of social respect it should. Let alone the let alone the financial reward it should!

Throw in a demanding and sometimes fussy bunch of parents (and oh yeah, their kids), and you will find classrooms led by the few, the proud, the brave, the amazing caregivers and preschool teachers!

But wait:

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7 Gift Ideas for Child Care Provider Appreciation Day

Never heard of National Child Care Provider Appreciation Day? Not on our watch! It’s every year, the last Friday before Mother’s Day, so it’s coming up. Consider yourself warned. Do your homework and organize something for your child’s child care provider or preschool teacher.

There are quite a few tongue-in-cheek “appreciation days” out there. Today, for example, is Star Wars Day – May the 4th be with you! But you really should take this Friday seriously: Besides family members, your child care provider is probably the single most important person in your child’s life.

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Is Full-Time Daycare Too Much?

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So, you finally found the perfect daycare center. The teachers are great and your child wakes up every morning happy to go see them! Congratulations, you’ve come a long way!

But there’s one last big question: how much child care is OK? Is full-time daycare a good idea? Should I really be leaving him there all day?

Excellent question!

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How to Choose a Special Needs Preschool

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CareLuLu

Hi Patricia - of course, thank you! The only thing we'd ask is that you please link back to our…

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Homework and parenting go hand-in-hand. The big question is who does it!

When your child gets a little older it is a little bit easier on you. There is a standard definition of “homework” and he or she will (or is supposed to, anyway) do most of it.

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5 Reasons Why Your Child Should Attend a Language Immersion Preschool

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I had no idea that children have a window of time where learning a new language is easy. I'd love…

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So, you have decided to give your child the gift of languages. Congratulations, your child will thank you for it! As promised in our previous post about raising multilingual children, in this article we are going to dive deeper into language immersion preschool programs and the reasons why they are a great idea!

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6 Tips for Raising Multilingual Children

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CareLuLu

Yay, thanks for sharing María José! Playing games and cooking time are great ideas to help children learn the language…

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If you’re like most of us, you started to appreciate your own parents a lot more when you became a parent yourself. “Jeez, Mom, was I like that? Thanks for putting up with me!”

Even if your parents were multilingual, though, they may not have seen the point of raising you to be so. Times were very different back then. If that’s the case, you probably wish they had held your nose to the language grindstone when you were younger. Today the world is a small, fast place where fortune favors the multilingual.

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5 Common Sense Benefits of Preschool

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Eli Richardson

We're thinking about taking our son to preschool, but we were a little worried about it being too soon. But…

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Education and politics: what a great mixture for drama in the media.   President Obama’s push for universal Pre-K has given rise to all kinds of debates surrounding the issue. Is it good for kids? Do parents need it? Is it fair? Is it cost-effective? And so on.

Even otherwise peace-loving Swedes seem to be weighing in from across the Atlantic. (Hint: don’t mess with Swedes when it comes to public benefits surrounding kids. They take it very seriously.)

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How To Prepare for Preschool Picture Day

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Have you ever checked how many gigabytes of digital pictures and videos you have of your child? Here’s a fun thought exercise: 1 GB was worth more than a house back when you were born. At those prices you may have bought a subdivision just on the day your child was born!

Even so, there is still something special about daycare or preschool picture day. These types of pictures actually get printed out and framed! Here’s a quick checklist to stay on top of the big day.

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4 Reasons To Take Your Kids To The Library – Happy National Library Week!

Do you remember the card catalogues they used to use in libraries? Now you can buy those cabinets as antiques on eBay. Most libraries switched over to computer based systems in the early 1990’s. In some ways, though, the card catalogue was more fun. You had to invest more time in finding each title and there was a certain sense of exploration involved. And preschoolers were too short to use it.

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