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Celebrate the Real Heroes this Halloween
10/21/2020Superheroes look a lot different in 2020. Instead of Luke Skywalker, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, this year we have Julia the doctor, Richard the nurse and Carol the grocery clerk. That’s why this Halloween season, Kiddie Academy locations across the nation will be celebrating and elevating these everyday superheroes who…
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Exclusive Interview with PBS Kids’ Pinkalicious
09/29/2020Kiddie Academy® Educational Child Care is proud to have a longstanding relationship with PBS Kids and many of the great shows on it. Among them is Pinkalicious & Peterrific, about an imaginative and adventurous girl who loves the color pink, and her little brother, the purple-clad Peterrific. We recently had…
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Sending Kids to Child Care During COVID-19
08/05/2020The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things, including how parents feel about sending their kids to child care. We wanted to understand more about the current attitudes of our parents, so in late June we sent out 20,800 surveys to current and formerly enrolled Kiddie Academy parents to gauge their…
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How Children Can Stay Safe, Part #4: Symptom Monitoring
07/16/2020Looking out for signs of sickness is an integral part of curtailing the spread of the coronavirus. That’s why we include symptom monitoring as one of the four guiding principles behind Kiddie Academy® Educational Child Care’s Health EssentialsSM initiative. “Health and wellness are paramount to the operations of a child…
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How Children Can Stay Safe, Part #3: Enhanced Hygiene
07/08/2020"Handwashing has always been the gold standard of illness prevention,” says Richard Peterson, Chief Academic Officer at Kiddie Academy® Educational Child Care. That’s why it’s the cornerstone of the Enhanced Hygiene principle of our Health Essentials initiative. We’ve increased our frequency and focus on handwashing procedures. In recent posts, we’ve…
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