Kids Want the Gift of YOU this Holiday! I don’t mean you need to wrap yourself up in wrapping paper with a bow on your head and slide yourself under the Christmas tree or the glowing lights [...]
I often come across great articles regarding the development of children that I can’t wait to share with my staff or parents. I was listening to a podcast the other day driving home, as [...]
What does it mean to be fit? For a lot of people, being fit means maintaining a healthy weight with diet and exercise. For me, being fit means being able to do things I love not just today [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I took my two young children to Round Table for a fun end of season soccer party. They both played at least $20 worth of arcade games, ate gooey pizza, played with [...]
What is teasing? How can it be avoided? Is there any way to prevent it from happening all together? As you can imagine, most of these questions are completely dependent on the individual. What [...]
Children need time to explore outdoors. They need access to a wide variety of materials and to have opportunities to manipulate or “mess about” with them. We’ve created our sensory garden [...]
The beginning of a new school year can be overwhelming for both kids and parents. We want to ensure that we are setting our kids up for success for the coming year. Creating routines helps give [...]
Children are naturally motivated to learn until they’re about 7 years old. After this time, they’ll need the ability to motivate themselves. A vital skill to succeed once learned. [...]
By Michelle Rupiper With technology evolving at breath-taking speed, we must prepare children to live in a future world that we can neither predict nor imagine today. Who knows what new advances [...]
Welcome back Parents! The P.E. team at Walnut Acres Children’s Center is excited to help foster and grow your kids into physically literate children. In a nutshell, physically literate [...]
