Secrets to Creating Balance, Organization & Peace In Your Everyday

Whether your days are spent in your home or an early education classroom, life with littles is relentless. One moment rolls into the next and the next, and soon an entire day has slipped past. As a result, our minds, homes, and classrooms can get cluttered and disorganized without us even noticing. True to our name, at Harmony, we are overjoyed to have mastered the art of creating smoothly flowing organization systems to make our littles-laden world go ‘round. (We honestly don’t think we could function any other way.) The great news? If we can work this magic, anyone can. The secret is stepping back, assessing your environment, and making a handful of small changes…

Our Progressive Age Series Continued!

After February’s post looking closely at 12-18-month-olds, today we are focusing on the blooming abilities and interests of 18-24-month cuties.

The caregiving role for this age range continues to be about protecting our little ones while stepping back incrementally more to allow them the space to grow and discover independently. …To nurture their natural developmental bursts of cognitive and motor abilities. …To meet toddlers’ processing pace with calm, patience, and observation—staying tuned in, and intervening only when support is needed.

Simple Tricks to Maximize Your Child’s Learning

You may have heard this famous quote often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Play is the highest form of research.” Day after day, throughout our 11 years of thoughtfully setting out materials and carefully observing children at play, our own research has proven itself true: the highest quality of learning through play occurs naturally when we keep it simple. When you spend time with young children, you can easily do this too…