Welcome to the Nurturing Home
A developmental approach to the preschool years, birth to five.
If you’ve got a preschooler, we’ve got help!
- One size doesn’t fit all; each child is unique.
- Children need a solid foundation on which to build–that includes security, love, and a curious mind!
- Brains grow and change more in the first five years than during any other period of life!
Let us help you create a nurturing home that helps kids grow and flourish!
Building Blocks
Building Blocks are easy, age-appropriate educational activities. This part of “Active Learning” is optional, but if you have “homeschool curriculum” in mind, there are seventy-five pages of Building Block activities!
Passive Learning
Passive Learning recognizes that children learn all the time, 24-7, whether we think we’re “teaching” them or not. They learn from absolutely everything around them, and they absorb everything like sponges. So if we consider what we’re exposing our children to, we can choose what they are learning. How easy is that?
Read Aloud
One of the components of “Active Learning,” Read Aloud introduces your child to the world! Kids learn that words go from left to right and pages turn right to left. The words on the page don’t change, and they give more meaning to the illustrations. Read Aloud is a special time with Mom or Dad as books become familiar and beloved friends!
Your Guide from Birth to Five
You don’t need a ton of books or a preschool “curriculum!” This one book will walk you through a developmental approach from birth to age five, one easy step at a time.
Bonus: The last appendix has over seventy-five pages of developmentally-appropriate learning activities, divided by age and ability. It’s like getting an extra bonus book absolutely free!
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What does the Nurturing Home provide?
A comprehensive guide for the first five years. Your Guide from Birth to Five addresses how to build attention spans what the brain needs during the preschool years how to build the right foundation for reading, math, science and academics in general routines (habits)...
Outdoor play does more than you might think!
When we invest our heart in it, learning can be natural and fun! For instance, scrap the hours of educational TV and spend lots of time outside instead, preferably in a place where there are ant hills in the dirt and squirrels scurrying through the trees. Where there...
Does “preschool” help my child?
The idea of preschool can seem so sweet and nice. And, at first glance, it may appear that those of us who stayed home for five years and only began formalized school at age six were underprivileged somehow. Or maybe it seems reasonable that given the advancement in...