What's early education? In the U.S., we tend to think about education as starting when kids enter kindergarten. For the most part, it’s the entry into our public school system and, for many kids, it’s the start of their first full-day program. Our systems, ...

  Drumroll, please: We’re very excited to announce that we’re heading to Orlando next week to be a part of the NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo! We will be exhibiting at booth #240, so come by and say howdy! At the expo, we’re thrilled to be the lead sponsor ...

If you run a childcare business, we bet that paperwork gives you more headaches than crying babies. Tracking sign-ins and sign-outs, logging meals and potty trips, generating monthly invoices, your to-do list is endless. We often hear that billing causes the ...

  Here’s the setting: You just picked your daughter up from preschool, you buckle her in the car seat and head towards home. You: “What did you learn at school today?” Kid: Blank stare out the window. You: “Well, what did you do at school?” Kid: “What’s for ...

To quote the inimitable Fred Rogers, “Play is really the work of childhood.” In recent years the importance of play for the youngest learners has been threatened by the pressure to develop kindergarten readiness in preschool. Common core has set the stage for ...

Being trusted with the livelihood of such little people is quite a responsibility--even an honor. Families hand over their hearts to you each day at drop-off. Sending kids off to school gets easier with each passing year; but for preschool families, this ...

  Being trusted with the livelihood of such little people is quite a responsibility--even an honor. Sending kids off to school gets easier with each passing year; but for preschool families, this process can be gut-wrenching, to say the least. Getting parents ...

  As a child care administrator, you not only have to keep your kiddos happy, but their families as well.  After all, word of mouth is one of the top ways parents find a childcare facility. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) ...

According to a 2015 survey done by Northwestern University, more than half of preschool teachers use tablet computers in the classroom, a number that doubled from a survey done just two years prior. This is an incredible statistic, considering that experts ...

Did you know how expensive childcare was going to be? For some, it might not even seem worth it to go back to work, depending on your income level. According to Care.com, the average family spends $18,000 a year on childcare. But the good news is that you are ...