You already have the most important piece of equipment needed for teaching your child to swim: your very own backyard swimming pool. The amount of time it takes to teach a person to swim varies greatly, but the most significant factor is frequency of swimming opportunities. You’ve got that covered! So after teaching your child […]
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Keeping Germs at Bay in Your Child Care Center, Part 2
If you’re not careful, your child care center can easily become a place where contagious illnesses thrive. As important as policies for exclusion may be, the most significant factor in preventing the spread of common childhood illnesses is actually proper hygiene. Unfortunately, many illnesses become contagious while they’re still asymptomatic (lacking visible symptoms). So no […]
Keeping Germs at Bay in Your Child Care Center, Part 1
When flu season rolls around, it’s easy to resign yourself to the idea that a barrage of illnesses will be making its way through your child care center throughout the winter months. If it seems to you that kids are more likely than adults to get sick, your instincts are right! As children’s bodies build […]
Teaching Your Child To Swim: The Basics
Once you have the proper equipment, you’ll be in a good place to begin to teach your child how to swim! Believe it or not, the steps are really pretty simple and natural. You can do this — and so can your child! First Things First: Moving and Blowing Bubbles For children, kicking their legs […]
Teaching Your Child To Swim: The Four Basic Strokes, Part 2
Did you know that if you know how to swim, yourself, and you have a backyard swimming pool, you already have most of what you need in order to teach your child to swim? Now, don’t get us wrong: parents may be at a slight disadvantage when it comes to teaching their own children. But […]
Teaching Your Child To Swim: The Four Basic Strokes, Part 1
There are certainly obstacles to teaching your own child to swim, but — like so many obstacles in life — their presence does not mean you can’t succeed in this endeavor! If you have a backyard swimming pool already, you’ve already overcome a significant obstacle: frequent opportunities to experiment with swimming skills. However, as with […]
Teaching Your Child to Swim: The Right Equipment
If you can swim yourself — or maybe even if you can’t — you can teach your child to swim! And if you have your own backyard swimming pool, you’ll have ample opportunities to do just that. Like other life skills, swimming needs to be taught one step — or one splash — at a […]
Understanding the Multifaceted Role of a Child Care Center Director, Part 3
In the first two articles of this series on understanding a child care center director’s complex role (see Parts 1 & 2), we’ve focused primarily on interpersonal relations. Though connecting with students, teachers, staff members, and parents is vitally important, there are some other practical aspects to directing a child care center that must not […]
How To Efficiently Memorize Choreography, Part 2
When it comes to memorizing choreography, the same basic principles used to memorize anything come into play. Not only can your dance instructors guide their students in this process, but you can also communicate it to dancers who are ready to memorize their own choreography. In Part 1, we discussed the first four steps to […]
Understanding the Multifaceted Role of a Child Care Center Director, Part 2
When it comes to hiring a child care center director, finding the right person for the job can be a daunting task. If you’re someone serving in the role of a child care center director, you know what a huge responsibility you have to provide your young students with a safe, caring educational environment in […]
How To Efficiently Memorize Choreography, Part 1
Do your dance students struggle with memorizing choreography? There’s no magical formula, for sure, but there are some definite principles about how a person’s memory works that can help inform choreography-memorization practices and make the process a little easier, allowing your dancers to have more time to focus on mastery and form. Step 1: Just […]
Understanding the Multifaceted Role of a Child Care Center Director, Part 1
In his book The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow, Dr. John C. Maxwell states, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” If an organization has effective leadership, it has a huge advantage toward reaching long-term success. This adage holds just as when it comes to the director […]
PTO’s Have Plenty to Offer Your Preschool
If you’re a preschool director, teacher, or staff member, chances are you’re already on board with the idea of parents getting more involved with their child’s education. The challenge is finding meaningful ways to help transform that goal into a reality. Some schools opt to open a Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) chapter, but sometimes parents […]
Bridges to Community Offers Help & Hope in the Dominican Republic
Many who people have seen pictures of the glamorous resorts in the Dominican Republic assume that it is a wealthy nation. Outside of the luxury hotel district, however, there are plenty of people in the Dominican Republic who are struggling with extreme poverty. They often lack basic necessities such as adequate food, water, as well […]
How to Stop Bullies
Bullies are everywhere, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They can be found on the school playground, in the neighborhood, or even in the workplace. It is important to stop bullies before they physically or emotionally hurt you or a loved one. Bullying is a very serious issue in today’s society and can […]