The 10 Founding Facts
The following statistics and research greatly influenced The Baby Vine's business model and child care environment. These founding facts ensure the highest quality of care is being offered to young children and their families. 1. Children develop much of their capacity for learning in the first three years of life, when their brains grow 90% of their eventual adult weight. (Karoly et al., 1998) |
2. When we consistently and lovingly meet the needs of the young children in our care, secure attachments are formed. Children who develop secure attachments to one or more adults are more likely to develop positive social and emotional skills. (Webster-Stratton, 1999) 3. The relationships formed with significant primary caregivers become the core context of the child’s development. Interactions between infants and caregivers are the basis of the child’s learning and development across all developmental domains. (www.zerotothree.org) |
4. Developmentally appropriate music activates the whole child: The child’s desire for language, the body’s urge to move, the brain’s attention to patterns, the ear’s lead in initiating communication, the voice’s response to sounds, as well as the eye-hand coordination associated with playing musical instruments. (Early Childhood Connections)
5. Melodies and rhythmic patterns help develop memory, and when the brain is engaged, neural pathways associated with higher forms of intelligence such as abstract thinking, empathy and mathematics are stimulated. (Early Childhood Connections) |
6. Movement plays an important role in language development because early communication is entirely physical. Babies are able to create neural pathways, particularly across the two hemispheres, through movement as they learn the concept of spatial awareness and physical realities of their bodies. (www.madacademy.com)
7. With music and dance, a child will have a creative experience which involves the expression of feelings. Young children often do not have the words to express themselves and need positive ways to release their emotions. (Early Childhood Connections) |
8. People spend 90% of their time indoors and most of our exposure to environmental pollutants occurs by breathing the air indoors. Children breathe in a greater volume of air than adults relative to their body size. Infants and young children breathe through their mouths, more so than do adults, which increases their risk of pulmonary exposure to particulates and fibers that would otherwise be filtered out in the nose. (www.greenguard.com)
9. Pollutants come from activities, products and materials we use every day. By using products bearing the GREENGUARD certification mark, parents, teachers and school officials can rest easy knowing these products have been independently tested and verified to meet strict emission levels of pollutants as well as sustainably made and sourced materials for products. (www.greenguard.com) |
10. A study at Washington University in 2003 found that children who ate organic food had 6 times lower levels of pesticides in their bodies than those who did not. Pesticides have been connected with a broad range of health problems, including cancer, lung disease and disorders of the endocrine and immune system. Children under two years are more sensitive because they are consuming more food per pound of body weight than any other aged person. This can be even more alarming when research has found that mixtures of the additives in non-organic food, which are commonly found in children’s foods, have a much more potent effect on nerve cells than each additive on its own. (www.goodhealth.com)
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