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The CHIRP™ Study (Child Health Inventory for Resilience and Prevention) is a new and comprehensive look at children’s health and the role that many environmental factors –like nutrition, chemical exposure, exercise—have on it. And it’s timely, as one in every two...

Set your alarm clock, it’s back to school time! Whether this is your child’s very first time attending preschool or they are returning for another year, getting ready for the first day can be both exciting and scary. At Dino, we want to help ease the overwhelming...

Early literacy skills are SO important for all ages birth and up! Sometimes it can be so hard to know what to do to integrate it into our days, right? This article gives some fantastic tips! A few quick ideas are: 🦖Singing songs in the car. 🦖 Reading stories at meal...

Singing with children builds mathematical and spatial skills. Children who have taken music classes score higher on math tests. Music enhances brain development in areas tied to pattern recognition, counting, organization, time, and division of larger notes into smaller notes (i.e. fractions).

The holiday season seems to start earlier and earlier. Kids get excited for this time of year, oh, say, around February. As December gets closer and stores start to display their holiday best, the excitement builds. It’s easy to get so caught up in wrapping gifts,...

Dropping off children at summer camp or any other childcare out of the routine can be difficult. At Dino Drop-In Childcare we get children new to daycare, every day. Here are some techniques we use to make the transition easier. 1. Enthusiasm: When trying a new...

Play in early childhood helps children explore the limits of the world in a safe, healthy way. Even the youngest children learn critical life skills from play – and repetition. Let’s take the physical world – for instance, gravity. It may just look like flinging hot...