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Tips for a Safe and Healthy Halloween
10/20/2020How can families with young children have a safe and healthy Halloween in this year of the coronavirus? “Under current circumstances, Halloween should look very different than we’re accustomed to in order to ensure public safety,” said Dr. Jason Goldstein, Health and Wellness Advisor for Kiddie Academy® Educational Child Care.…
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Exclusive Interview with PBS Kids’ Pinkalicious about New Podcast
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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What Do Parents Think About 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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