Fostering Healthy Attachment Relationships
Healthy attachment relationships are critical for successful early learning during the infant years and provide the essential foundation on which all subsequent learning occurs. Caring staff work with families and provide personalized care for each infant, following the family’s schedule for their infant, and recognizing each infant’s individual cues for eating, sleeping and diapering.
Infant rooms are safe and sensory rich spaces for children to explore, roll over, pull up and crawl. Families can enroll as early as 6 weeks of age.
Learning Outcomes
Infants learn best through meaningful play, sensory interactions, and active exploration of their environment as well as through interactions with adults during routine care. Staff provide opportunities for infants to develop language and communication, social emotional, fine and gross motor skills through meaningful experiences.
Trained staff nurture curiosity and help infants explore music, art, science and nature and math through developmentally appropriate activities.
Infant Program Locations
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Families can enroll as early as 6 weeks.
Families provide crib sheet, sleep sacks, bottles, changes of clothes, diapers and wipes, infant foods dependent on location.
All items brought from home shall be labeled with the child’s full name.
Infants spend most of their day exploring their environment on the floor. We actively encourage breastfeeding by allowing nursing mothers to feed in the classroom and by having refrigerator and freezer storage for human milk.
Our infant programs typically have a waitlist so we encourage touring and putting your name on the wait list as soon as you know you will need future care
Handwashing occurs upon entering the classroom, before handling food and feeding, after handling body fluids, before and after messy play.
Mouthed toys are set aside for washing and sanitizing before being placed back in the play area.
Infants are fed on demand and are gradually transitioned to the center’s schedule for snack and meals times when they move up to the next classroom.
Infants are kept in the infant room until about 12 months of age. Transitions are conducted in consultation with the family, introducing new foods shall occur at home for at least 2 weeks prior to be offered in the care setting.
Our infant rooms are shoeless – staff do not wear their street shoes in the classroom and families are encouraged to remove their shoes or use a show covering prior to entering the classroom.
Infants do spend time outdoors so appropriate outerwear is necessary.
We follow a 1 adult to every 4 children ratio.
Screen time is not permitted in infant rooms.
Daily notes on foods eaten and quantities, sleeping, photos and activities are provided through Tadpoles.