How To Transition to Fall Like a Pro

Summer is always fleeting, but somehow, this summer felt even more blink-and-it’s-gone. At Harmony, we are now a pack of whirling dervishes, prepping our classrooms for another year of adorable children primed to learn through play and fill each school day with joy.

As parents, we know all too well how this schedule shift can at first feel like the grind of an engine too hastily switching gears in a standard-transmission car—clunky, cringeworthy, and exhausting. But with a touch of advance planning, you’ll be shifting gears more smoothly than the winner of the Indy 500...

Our Progressive Age Series Continued!

After our two recent posts examining the loves and challenges of 18-24-month olds and 12-18-month-olds, today we are focusing on the beautiful age of 2!

We’re happy to say, the famed Terrible Two moniker is more myth than reality. The truth is, outbursts of challenging behavior can arrive at any age. If—as parents, caregivers, or teachers—we prepare, self-educate, ensure we (and our kids!) regularly get plenty of rest, and root our days in predictable routine…those twos need not be terrible at all…

AKA How to Enjoy (ALMOST) Every Minute

“Enjoy every minute, it all goes by so fast!” How many times have we all heard a well-meaning aunt or passing shopper utter these words?We know we should enjoy every moment. We do. BUT. The days are long. Some days, extremely long. Especially when we’re sleep-deprived. Or our kids are. Or if we happen to be the parents of particularly high-energy or defiant children. What if we told you we’ve figured out how to break that defeating cycle—that we’d cracked a formula to allow you to take control of the daily steamroller and use it to smooth the inevitable challenges in your path instead of being flattened by them? Well. We have. And it’s easier than you think.

A Progressive Age Series With a Sprinkle of Harmony Magic!

Every morning, circa February 2020 and for years prior, Harmony’s play studios were crawling with babies—literally! Our family-favorite Parent/Child Class series offered an opportunity for families, babies, and toddlers up to 3.5 to connect, bond, and explore. Today and in future posts, we’ll share our experience and observations of these crawling, toddling, early years with a sprinkle of Harmony magic—encouraging simple ways for you to nurture your child through the incredible, exponential growth of the first 24 months of life all the way to year 6....

Nature is full of creative inspiration for children and adults alike.

Looking for a way to inspire your little one to sit down and create? Look to mandalas! A mandala is a circular structure with radial symmetry—a design that radiates out symmetrically from the center. You can find mandalas in nature if you look closely enough…

Our journey to becoming Harmony.

Once upon a time, Harmony was not called Harmony, and it wasn’t located on the gorgeous piece of conservation-adjacent property your children frolic on today. Our story began in 2010 in a small retail plaza in Rowley, MA, when our name was Play Makers Family Enrichment Center…