Welcome to the Nurturing Home
A developmental approach to the preschool years, birth to five.
If you’ve got a preschooler, we’ve got help!
- One size doesn’t fit all; each child is unique.
- Children need a solid foundation on which to build–that includes security, love, and a curious mind!
- Brains grow and change more in the first five years than during any other period of life!
Let us help you create a nurturing home that helps kids grow and flourish!
Building Blocks
Building Blocks are easy, age-appropriate educational activities. This part of “Active Learning” is optional, but if you have “homeschool curriculum” in mind, there are seventy pages of Building Block activities!
Passive Learning
Passive Learning recognizes that children learn all the time, 24-7, whether we think we’re “teaching” them or not. They learn from absolutely everything around them, and they absorb everything like sponges. So if we consider what we’re exposing our children to, we can choose what they are learning. How easy is that?
Read Aloud
One of the components of “Active Learning,” Read Aloud introduces your child to the world! Kids learn that words go from left to right and pages turn right to left. The words on the page don’t change, and they give more meaning to the illustrations. Read Aloud is a special time with Mom or Dad as books become familiar and beloved friends!
Your Guide from Birth to Five
You don’t need a ton of books or a preschool “curriculum!” This one book will walk you through a developmental approach from birth to age five, one easy step at a time. With short chapters and practical fill-in-the-blanks planning pages, it will have you feeling confident in quick order!
Bonus: The last appendix has seventy pages of developmentally-appropriate learning activities, divided by age and ability. It’s like getting an extra bonus book absolutely free!
Explore a bit more!
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Isn’t kindergarten when kids are really ready to learn?
Aren't the first four years just a "holding time" until kids start kindergarten? We've been convinced that they are, but these may actually be the most important years of a child's life, laying an inescapable foundation for all of life! Vital neural connections are...
Choosing a preschool
Have you been wondering which preschool to choose for your two or three-year-old? Do you worry about your child being well-socialized, exposed to enough, and learning all he should? Kudos to you for caring enough to ask such questions! These are good concerns since...