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Billy finds music everywhere,” says Dr. Lauren Starnes, vice president of early childhood education, research and development for Primrose Schools®. There’s so much language in music, it’s an opportunity for early phonological awareness, which is about recognizing and isolating sounds,” says Dr. Maria Shaheen, executive director of early childhood education. Music is a way of uniting.” Research into children in kindergarten through 12th grade has shown that music education improves social skills along with creativity and motivation, Shaheen says, and she’s confident those benefits are there for younger children, too. : Primrose students hear a variety of music in the classroom, including classic children’s songs, original songs unique to Primrose and international tunes.

Even babies and toddlers can learn about responsible behavior, says Dr. Maria Shaheen, executive director of early childhood education for Primrose Schools®. “Ally’s all about doing the right thing,” says Dr. Lauren Starnes, vice president of early childhood education, research and development. In addition to teaching personal responsibility, young children at Primrose schools get an introduction to social responsibility, too, Shaheen says. Use Ally’s books and video to reinforce the language used in the Primrose classroom so that children realize “what my teachers want me to do in my classroom is the same as what my parents want me to do at home.

A good place to start is the recognition, as stated by the American Academy of Pediatrics, that: “early care and education…offer a supportive learning environment for healthy child development as well as a foundation of services for young children and their families. Given the clear benefits, the question becomes a matter of how to make the return to child care as safe as possible for children and families — a task that involves limiting the spread of the virus. and are routinely introduced to the basic concepts involved in handwashing, from the ability of soap and water to wash those germs which song to sing to ensure health checks, having anyone (children or providers) experiencing symptoms stay home, limiting who comes in and out of the center, and mask-wearing all serve as ways to significantly limit the likelihood of viral spread. As simple as all these strategies may seem, the fact of the matter is that when implemented in the child care setting, handwashing, disinfecting, staying home when sick and keeping one’s respiratory droplets to oneself (i.e. mask wearing) really do work to reduce the spread of viruses.

Imaginative play requires elevated thinking of children, says Dr. Lauren Starnes, vice president of early childhood education, research and development for Primrose Schools. Think of a shoe, for example: If you show it to a young child and ask him or her to come up with things it could be (a flower pot, a toy car, a shovel, etc.), the child will come up with more than five times the suggestions an adult can, Starnes says. If we would encourage children from a young age to come up with new and creative solutions, like we do in Balanced Learning, we wouldn’t struggle to re-create that creative, divergent thinking that is so desired in teenagers and young adults,” Starnes says. So if your child says one morning that she’s not going to school, she’s going to the beach, ask her what she would do, see, smell and hear at the beach.