Kids Quarters Infant Program is centered on the natural curiosity and energy of very young children. We’ll provide your infant with lots of attention, a variety of appropriate activities, and abundant conversations and nurturing so your baby’s world is fun, interesting, safe and loving.

Our Infant Program provides an enriching environment designed to enhance babies development while allowing them to experience and learn at their own pace. At Kids Quarters we surround babies with attractive pictures, mobiles, colors and soft toys to stimulate exploration. Our safe, age-appropriate equipment, and soft, cuddly toys are designed to meet each baby’s special developmental needs. We talk to infants, hold them and rock them to encourage their overall development. We work to form basic trust. We show each baby that his or her needs will be met and that this is truly a wonderful new world with all sorts of pleasant experiences. Once babies learn to trust, they will respond openly and securely to new acquaintances.

Our Infant staff is trained to incorporate literature, educational materials, music, and other specially selected materials and resources, all with the goal of enhancing the rapid changes that occur in a child’s development in the earliest years of life.

Kids Quarters staff believes that each infant has his/her own schedule, which will include eating, sleeping, quiet play, active play and outside time. The curriculum of the infant program will focus on the individual child and provide each infant with a variety of activities and experiences to develop new skills about the world around them. The center’s staff will help infants develop a sense of trust and encourage independence. This will further provide ample opportunities to foster language acquisition and cognitive development.

The infant environment is planned and organized to maximize:

Large and small motor experiences: for younger infants: looking, reaching, grasping, holding, crawling in, out, over, under etc. For older babies: gripping, throwing, manipulating, walking, climbing, pushing, pulling, etc.
Sensory Experiences: explorations of texture, color, size and shape, smell, taste, and weight.
Cognitive Experiences: object permanence, spatial relationships, collecting and dumping, cause and effect, problem solving.
Language: adult-child conversations, labeling, books, music, rhyming, and sound exploration.
Social Development: caregiver-child one-to-one, child initiated interactions, guiding and modeling positive peer interactions.
Expression: art-movement, doll and stuffed animal play, imitation and beginning dramatic play.

A typical day will include outside play, rotated toys, music, use of textures and other sensory play, and books.