According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age two.  A child's brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.”

We puree our own baby food right here at The Learning Center!  We use fresh vegetables and fruit to make cubes of nutrition for your little one.  We know and understand how much you care about your infant’s nourishment, so we’ve made it easy for you to choose us to meet his or her dietary needs.

By age one, most toddlers can understand about 70 words.  Around 18 months, your little one will add a new word to his or her repertoire at an approximate rate of one word every two waking hours.

Vision development boards can help infants develop their eye sight.  As your baby grows, his or her eyes will take in huge amounts of information about the world.  Infants’ developing eyesight will help them learn to grasp, sit, roll over, crawl and walk.   Your little one focuses well on black and white images with big, bold lines.

It is advised, by the Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing, that we provide daily outdoor play, unless prevented by inclement weather.  We feel that daily outdoor experiences are vital to children’s growth.  Not only do we focus on key gross motor skills (hopping, jumping, running and climbing), but we also utilize this time as a way for children to release energy so they can come back into their classrooms with a more focused mind and calm body. 

When your preschooler screams out “Mine!”, don’t worry!  Children this age are going through a period in life called primary individualization.  This milestone is of cognitive importance because it shows that he or she sees himself as an individual, a person apart from you, his or her Educators and his or her friends.

We’ve all heard the phrase, “kids are like sponges; they soak up everything”.  This means they are able and willing to learn about anything and everything!  However, do you know why?  According to Zero to Three, a nonprofit educational group, the cerebral cortex adds more than 2 million new synapses between the ages of one and two.  By age two, your toddler will have more than 100 trillion synapses.  Because this is the most he or she will ever have in his or her life, your child has an incredible capacity to learn.  Spanish…or Algebra…why not?!