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How Does Your Garden Grow?
What could be more appealing for young children than an opportunity to play in the dirt, to be creative and to watch things grow? Gardening with young children can be both fun and educational. Whether you are interested in planting … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Joni
Tagged children, gardening, gardens, gardens planiting children, planting, play, preschool
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Expanding Your Family Child Care to a Group Child Care Home
If you have a family childcare, maybe you have considered expanding your program to a group childcare home so you can serve more children. Your first step is to check your local laws and regulations. Each state is very different. … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, Joni
Tagged daycare, educational, family daycare, group daycare, licensed, provider, regulations, requirements, training
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Caring for Mixed Age Groups
Karina is not unlike many other family child care providers. She opens her home to care for four other children in addition to her own four year old son. She cares for a young infant and his two year sister … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, Joni
Tagged activities, age groups, care, caregivers, child care, childcare, children, family daycare, infants, mixed age, mulitage, providers, teachers, toddlers
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Do You Have a Child Care Website?
Child Care Lounge is happy to announce our affiliate program! Our program is free to join, it’s easy to sign-up and requires no technical knowledge How Does It Work? When you join our affiliate program, you will be supplied with … Continue reading
Witches Don’t Wear Black Shoes: Responding to Children’s Fears
Noah was a four-year-old who had been enrolled in my preschool for a few months. We spent a lot of time together and I had established a very warm rapport with him. Because of this, I was shocked when I … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Joni
Tagged caregivers, comforting, creatures, fear, fearful, fears, frightened, imaginary, preschool, reassuring, responsd, scared, scary, terror
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A Shot in the Dark
I originally published this in a child care newsletter where I was working. You may be able to use the content or message to share with parents. Although this happened to me 12 years ago, the message here is as … Continue reading
Posted in Joni, Safety, Uncategorized
Tagged accident, firearm, gun, gun safety, safety, shoot, shooting preschoolers, tragedy
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Welcome!
This is the first post for our new blog! Child Care Lounge has been around since 2002 and we are still growing. I first started the website to share the many ideas and resources I gathered in the many years … Continue reading
