The holidays give us lots of opportunities to be grateful. Thanksgiving is, of course, a holiday about being grateful, but it is also a good time to teach children about thankfulness, particularly in looking ahead to holidays like Christmas and Hanukah where many children anticipate receiving gifts. At Milestones Learning Center, we celebrate the season […]
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At Milestones Learning Center, we know that music does more than just create a joyful atmosphere. Research shows that listening to and engaging with music supports language development in children from the earliest ages. A report of the scientific literature from the National Institutes of Health in 2023 concluded, “musical properties, such as rhythm and
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A child’s ability to learn to speak a language is near miraculous. Long before a child ever speaks his first word he is absorbing the sounds and patterns of the language around him. Research shows that young children can learn a second language much easier than adults because they are already using the brain processing
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