Coping with Separation Anxiety: Tips for Parents
Separation anxiety commonly impacts many babies and toddlers—and it can be heart-wrenching for a parent. If your child cries or clings to you as you try to leave the room, they’re likely experiencing separation anxiety. Learn how to identify common signs and tips to help your child feel safe and sound. What is Separation Anxiety? […]
Helping Children Cope with Tragic News: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
In today’s hyper-connected world, tragic events—whether natural disasters, violence, or global crises—can reach children quickly through television, social media, or conversations at school. As a parent or caregiver, it’s natural to want to shield children from distressing news. But when exposure is unavoidable, how we respond makes a big difference in how children process and […]
Emotional Health Series: 3 Ways to Teach Your Child About Emotions
Helping children build a vocabulary about how they feel has a tremendous impact on their entire lives. As a parent or caregiver, you can integrate learning about emotions into your child’s daily routines, setting them up for success in the long term. At One Place, all of our preschool programs prioritize social-emotional development. Through nurturing […]
How One Place Supports Children Facing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress
For some children, experiencing traumatic events during the formative years of childhood can have a profound impact on their life. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can cause a long-term impact on a child’s brain development, social-emotional skills, and ability to thrive as an adult. ACEs are defined as traumatic events that occur during a child’s early […]
Building a Foundation for Resilience: Child Edition
What is child resilience? In our previous two blogs, we unpacked what resilience means for both parents and early childhood educators. Today’s blog takes a deeper look at the four key factors that contribute to building resilience in children at a young age—and different activities parents, caregivers, and educators can use to support early childhood […]
How Social-Emotional Skills Develop in High-Quality Preschool Programs
Beyond the ABCs and 123s, a child’s social-emotional health is absolutely critical to the long-term trajectory of their lives. When social and emotional health is prioritized in the preschool classroom, it has a cascading impact on a child’s long-term ability to grow, thrive, and succeed. At One Place, we serve over 700 children each year […]