Distinctions About Our Centers...

A personal note to parents from Philip Adams, President of Child's Play, Inc. (click here)

Some parent's letters about us (click here)

Our company was founded in 1985 by a group of teachers and parents who had it as their goal to make a quantum leap in the quality of early childhood care and education for their own children. As parents in search of high quality educational child care we saw the explosive growth of national chain child care as a missed opportunity. Most of it appeared to be an exercise in great marketing with so many useful and beneficial possibilities for children and parents completely missed.

Our philosophy is to create learning opportunities for our children in an environment of unconditional love, support, and respect. We consider it our job to help parents begin to prepare their children to be happy and successful in life in general, and for their school years in particular.

In designing our programs, we have drawn on the educational methods and philosophy of Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, and Rudolf Dreikurs. We emphasize the importance of the quality of teacher-child interactions. Teachers are seen as important role models for children.

Two major elements of our program are the context and the content. Context refers to how we do what we do with children. Content refers to what we do, such as classroom activities and academic subjects. A great context is the most important element in nurturing a child's love of learning and love of school!

The Context...

We purposefully create an environment (or context) of unconditional love, support and respect for our children. This philosophy shows up in action in the quality of the interactions between our staff and the children, no matter what their behavior may be!

The Content...

Our content includes reading, writing, social interaction skills and much more! (see curriculum and special programs) We read and write about everything all the time! It is our intention to allow (not teach) our children to learn to read and write early, the same way they learn to speak; by having it present on an everyday basis (not as something taught, as something we just do that they learn naturally).

Ten simple "first visit" measures for quality child care. . . (click here)