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Addressing Lack of Communication

September 4, 2024AngelLearning Informational

Stay Connected to Your Child’s Day with Real-Time Updates at Our Childcare Center

As parents, staying informed about your child’s daily activities is more important than ever. At Angel Learning Center, we understand the peace of mind that comes from knowing how your little one is progressing throughout the day. That’s why we’re committed to providing clear, consistent communication to keep you in the loop at all times.

Our childcare center prioritizes transparency by offering daily updates, photos, and real-time notifications right to your smartphone. Whether it’s capturing fun moments during playtime, creative projects, or important milestones, you’ll always be engaged with your child’s journey and growth.

With a strong focus on open communication, we strive to create a supportive and trustworthy environment for your child’s care and development. Trust and transparency are at the heart of our relationship with parents, ensuring you never miss a moment of your child’s experience at our top-rated childcare center.

Benefits of Block Play

March 12, 2021AngelLearning Informational

The Benefits of Block Play
Written By:
Charlie Chewter

Block play can boost children’s development like few other activities, as Charlie Chewter explains…
Block play offers an open-ended, creative, and valuable play and learning experience available to every setting. It offers children freedom – to explore, take apart, and put back together any block-based creation they can think of. There are a host of benefits to be gained from this activity. Here are 10 aspects of learning that can expect a boost, many originally highlighted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children:

1. Increases imagination skills
2. Self-expression enhanced
3. Problem-solving – Blocks offer a great platform to develop problem-solving and reasoning skills. This can be deliberate, with children consciously working to develop a solution, or as a natural consequence of play, as they learn first-hand what does and what doesn’t work.
4. Mathematics – Due to the many shapes, sizes, and colors on offer, blocks offer ample opportunity for children to practice important math skills, covering measurement, number, symmetry, balance, and estimation.
5. Physical development – Block play promotes the development of spatial awareness and develops hand-eye coordination as children reach for, lift, move and build with blocks, strengthening their fingers, hands, and arms.
6. Creativity – Blocks are loose parts, meaning children are free to combine and recombine them in countless ways.
7. Science – Through the exploration of cause and effect and experimentation, children can develop their problem-solving skills, test hypotheses, and practice scientific reasoning. Blocks help them to become familiar with balance, weight, spatial awareness, and gravity.

Container Baby Syndrome: How Equipment Can Hinder a Child’s Development

November 19, 2020AngelLearning Informational

An infant container is any device that limits movement of a baby and includes:

• Infant carriers such as slings and packs
• Nursing pillows or cushions
• Floor seats, car seats and highchairs
• Jumpers or walkers
• Infant swings

Time in a container can quickly add up throughout the day if a child rides in a car seat, falls asleep in a swing, sits in a highchair then stands in a baby walker or other such equipment. Switching from one container to the next reduces the amount of time and ability for a baby to kick, turn their head side-to-side, wiggle and move as a baby is supposed to do in order to develop the needed strength and coordination to learn new skills such as rolling over, sitting up, crawling and walking.

While many of these products make parents feel the baby is working on these skills by standing in an activity center or sitting in a floor seat, containers actually prevent children from sitting or standing in correct alignment and result in an inability to activate important muscles. Equipment can hinder the development of skills and place inappropriate stress on developing bones and joints – placing the child at risk for other injuries.

These issues mean that children who use containers may actually take longer to develop skills such as sitting, standing and walking. When a child is already at risk for developmental delays due to prematurity, Down syndrome, or other medical concerns, overuse of equipment can result in even greater impact and delays for the baby.