Our Values…

While the children grow with us, one thing that will remain a constant theme throughout our center is a strong focus on KINDNESS. Much of this is modeled after the theory published in the book “How Full is Your Bucket” by Tom Rath & Donald Clifton. The following is a description from Publishers Weekly:

“In this brief but significant book, the authors, a “grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Clifton and Rath suggest that we all have a bucket within us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise. When we're negative toward others, we use a dipper to remove from their buckets and diminish their positive outlook. When we treat others in a positive manner, we fill not only their buckets but ours as well.”

In the illustrated children’s edition, a little boy named Felix discovers how being kind to others not only helped to fill their buckets, but it helped fill the bucket within him! The theory of the effects of kindness became the foundation to model for our day care center. So while your children will learn their colors, numbers, letters, sign language, etc.… by time they graduate from our care, they are certain to have learned the importance of kindness.