Early Childhood Development

Welcome to the Early Childhood Development blog, brought to you by Strong Start Early Learning Center. In this blog, we cover topics relevant to childhood development, including guides on local care, socialization, early learning, and preschool daycare. Check back regularly for news, article, and updates.

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Healthy Snacks For Kids

As busy parents juggling the responsibilities of having children with other expectations of being an adult, we don’t always have time to pick the healthiest snacks for our kids. When shopping for groceries, we too often reach for packaged, factory-created snacks because they are convenient, but we fail to recognize that many of the foods…

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New Year’s Resolutions Your Kids Can Make And Keep

In this latest blog, brought to you by the folks at Strong Start Early Learning Center, we’ll be discussing how you can get your child involved in the now-classic tradition of the new year’s resolution, along with some suggestions to get them started on creating their own ideas. It isn’t just adults that feel the…

Benefits of introducing your child to school at a young age part two

Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 2

In our last blog post, we touched on a few of the reasons that introducing your child to a school setting can be so beneficial, but we were far from mentioning all of the ones that we see. In today’s blog post, we will continue to cover a few of the ways that your child…

Learn about the benefits of introducing your child to school at a young age

Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 1

Children are being introduced to education programs at an early age, and while some may feel that this is throwing children to the fire much to early, there are plenty of benefits that we have seen in exposing children to education early on. Maybe the reason that so many people disagree with children attending school…

How to answer your toddler's "why" questions

How To Answer Your Toddler’s “Why” Questions

Toddlers are fun, aren’t they? They’ve reached an age where independence, freedom, and curiosity has overcome them. Toddlers are like sponges, ready to soak up every ounce of information they desire, resulting in non-stop energy. For many parents, the toddler age can be exhausting as they are constantly trying their best to fulfill every demand…

How Early Childhood Education Becomes the Foundation for a Life of Learning

Your child’s early childhood education will become the foundation of their educational experience throughout their life. That’s why we place so much emphasis on creating a positive, successful for the child in our early childhood education program in Trumbull! We want to teach young children to have a love of learning, so they can be…

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Preparing To Send Your Infant To Day Care

No matter how much you try to prepare for life with an infant by reading blogs, online forums, articles, books, and listening to everyone’s advice—it’s just not possible. Life with an infant is an experience that is different for every family due to every household’s unique situations. Adjusting to life with an infant is more…

Inquiry-based learning: asking questions

Inquiry-based Learning: Asking Questions

Strong Start Child Early Care and Education is dedicated to an early childhood education that is inquiry-based because we believe that learning from the inside-out creates life-long learners that are successful problem solvers and are emotionally secure.   Some education methods see children merely as sponges to take in information that will be used later,…

Inquiry-based Learning: Data Collection

Welcome back to our blog series on inquiry-based learning. Strong Start Early Care and Education is dedicated to providing an early childhood education that will help your child become an inquisitive-minded child who will be secure in their ability to learn and solve problems. We use an inquiry-based curriculum from the earliest ages to reach…

Inquiry based learning: the hypothesis

Inquiry Based Learning: The Hypothesis

Welcome back to our blog series on inquiry-based learning. Strong Start Early Care and Education is dedicated to providing an early childhood education that will help your child become an inquisitive-minded child who will be secure in their ability to learn and solve problems. We use an inquiry-based curriculum from the earliest ages to reach…

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