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Welcome to the Strong Start Early Learning Center blog! Keeping informed on your child’s growth and education is important, and Strong Start would like to help you keep up with the latest in what’s happening in the education world and beyond. Check back regularly for articles, updates on Strong Start Early Learning Center curriculum, and other news!

How questions lead to learning in inquiry based classrooms and other child care services

Questions Lead to Learning in Inquiry Based Classrooms

When you are looking for high-quality pre-K in the Trumbull and Bridgeport areas, schedule a tour of Strong Start Day Care to learn about our great learning center. We take children, from infants to pre-K.  Our pre-K, as all our classes, uses an inquiry-based curriculum. This is a system of teaching that utilizes a child’s…

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Preparing To Send Your Infant To Day Care

No matter how much you try to prepare for life with an infant by reading blogs, online forums, articles, books, and listening to everyone’s advice—it’s just not possible. Life with an infant is an experience that is different for every family due to every household’s unique situations. Adjusting to life with an infant is more…

Inquiry-based learning for toddlers and other child care solutions

Inquiry-Based Learning for Toddlers

  Strong Start Early Care and Education Center offers high-quality day care in the Trumbull / Bridgeport area. We use an inquiry-based curriculum. You may well ask how an inquiry-based curriculum is implemented for very young children. We’ve talked, in recent blogs about questions that spur thinking and problem-solving in pre-k children, but what do…

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Natural Cold Remedies For Kids

If you’re a parent to toddlers and young children, it may seem like they catch colds every other week. The truth is, no matter how clean your home is and the daycare facility your child attends, kids transfer their germs to one another at nearly every interaction. Unfortunately, there is still no cure for the…

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Early Milestones

All new parents wonder if what their infant or toddler is doing is normal. You might be asking yourself if they are on track developmentally. Strong Start Daycare in Trumbull is very familiar with these thoughts, and in an attempt to ease your mind and let you know that you are part of a wider…

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Balancing Attachment Parenting with Your Own Needs

Our blog series on attachment parenting has focused on the baby, just as attachment parenting does, but parents are human beings too, with our own needs and desires. Surely there is room for balance in this technique. Strong Start Early Care and Education in Trumbull is more than a daycare. We like you to consider…

How Early Childhood Education Becomes the Foundation for a Life of Learning

Your child’s early childhood education will become the foundation of their educational experience throughout their life. That’s why we place so much emphasis on creating a positive, successful for the child in our early childhood education program in Trumbull! We want to teach young children to have a love of learning, so they can be…

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It Takes a Village

Strong Start Early Care and Education Center is a daycare center in Trumbull, but a daycare with a difference. We pride ourselves in giving children from six weeks to four years old a safe and stimulating start in life. From the time they enter our welcoming, clean and specially designed spaces, until they head off…

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Inquiry-based Learning: Asking Questions

Strong Start Child Early Care and Education is dedicated to an early childhood education that is inquiry-based because we believe that learning from the inside-out creates life-long learners that are successful problem solvers and are emotionally secure.   Some education methods see children merely as sponges to take in information that will be used later,…

The best infant care in Sheldon

Summer Day Care Solutions

Summer break will be upon us and with it changing day care needs can arise. If you need a summer day care solution, turn to Strong Start Early Care and Education for help! With little ones, in the years before they are in elementary school, their schedule may not change much, but yours may because…

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