Articles & Insights
Explore articles, news, and insights shared by our early childhood experts. You’ll find advice for making your child’s early childhood education a positive and joyful one, fun and engaging activity ideas, seasonal insights, and more!
Strengthening Pre-Writing Skills at Home
Many of our parents ask what they can do at home to help their children excel at school, and our answer is almost always to READ! Reading is so, so important for students. Reading with your child not only helps to develop their language skills, but it also helps...
4 Things You Might Have Missed During Your Kids Village Tour
At Kids Village, we invite prospective families to come to our school for a tour at any time (you don't even have to give us notice if you come during school hours). We think it's important for parents and children to see classrooms and workshops in action as part of...
12 Ideas for Keeping Children Occupied on Thanksgiving
We don't know about you, but Thanksgiving can be...well...a little chaotic at our houses, especially with so many little ones in the mix. while it can be tempting to turn on a movie marathon and settle the kids onto beanbag chairs with a little Chex mix (no judgment...
Helping Your Child Transition Into Preschool
Transitioning into preschool can be scary for the parent, but it can be especially cumbersome for young children. They haven’t been exposed to many new things before, and you, as their parent, have been such a consistent presence in their life that it may be difficult...
How to Teach Kids to Share
Any time there is more than one child in the room, there’s likely to be some tension over some knick-knack or other. Kids under the age of 5 are just starting to develop their sense of self. They’re starting to explore and experiment with what that means for them and...
4 Ways to Enhance Your Child’s Ability to Focus
Being able to focus helps increase productivity, reduce stress, and helps you produce a better quality of work. When you are able to pay attention to just the task at hand, you’re able to dedicate your whole self to whatever it is you’re doing. Cultivating mindfulness...
How to Raise Self-Motivated Children
Raising kids who have the wherewithal to work past challenges and persevere can be a fine line to walk. You don’t want to be overbearing and force your kids to succeed; that’s a miserable and exhausting experience for both of you. It’s a balancing act: giving your...
5 Life Skills to Start Teaching Now
Parents have a lot of responsibility. We have to address our children’s immediate needs: feeding them (which sometimes feels nonstop), clothing them, and educating them. Outside of conventional education like learning the ABCs, multiplication tables, and the formula...
Six Toddler Friendly Science Experiments
Six Toddler-Friendly Science Experiments Cultivating your toddler’s interest in science may seem a bit overwhelming. They don’t have a lengthy attention span. Their limited interactions mean that there’s not much foundational knowledge from which to build, but that...
Tips for Teaching Good Manners to Children
Manners are constantly evolving. It’s not as common anymore to hear parents scolding their children for speaking in the presence of adults. Things like not resting your elbows on the table started for a reason, but have outlived their usefulness. That being said,...
How to Raise Children with Adventurous Spirits
As parents, our knee-jerk reflex makes us immediately intervene with anything we see as risky or dangerous. The second they start crawling towards the stairs, we run and pick them up. We make sure that hot mug is immediately out of reach. And these reactions are well...
Ideas for Keeping You Child Learning During Summer
Learning is critical for cognitive development, and children thrive on routine. During the summer months, it’s important to keep up the routine of daily learning. You’ve still got your daily routine and expectations to fulfill, so keeping your kids occupied can be a...