Better Beginnings Child Development Center
Preschool in Hightstown, NJ 08520
Better Beginnings is committed first and foremost to providing affordable, quality child care, giving parents the opportunity to be self-supporting, contributing, and involved members of the community, while providing their children with developmentally-appropriate learning experiences in a safe, healthy, nurturing environment. Better Beginnings is further committed to be as responsive as possible to the unmet needs of the families and children of its community, providing programs wherever feasible to meet such needs.
Better Beginnings seeks to serve all people in need of its services regardless of religious affiliation, race, sex, age, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, handicap, sexual orientation, or marital status. Better Beginnings encourages self-esteem mutual respect and harmonious relationship among all the diverse elements of the human community.
- Child Ages:
- 2.5 years - 13 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- New Jersey Department of Children and Families - NAEYC Accredited
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday-Friday 7:30am-5:30pm
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Helping each child build a positive self-image through intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development is basic to our philosophy. Our goal is to provide a broad range of experiences and developmental activities, suited to the individual needs of each child, in a warm, safe, healthy, accepting, multi-cultural, bi- lingual environment. We believe that learning is exciting for young children, and that learning is both work and play for them.
Our approach is child-oriented rather than teacher-directed. For example, we believe that children learn by doing rather than by being lectured or watching demonstrations; we believe that children learn best at the teachable moment and when they have free choice to pursue their inner drive for knowledge. We are success-oriented: we believe that success breeds success. We reinforce the positive and discourage the negative at every opportunity.
We believe that children with positive self-image are more likely to succeed and that our most important task is encouraging the development of self-esteem, independence and self-confidence. We encourage problem solving and discovery, and we ask questions to develop the spirit of inquiry rather than drill. We believe in giving children choices, and using natural consequences. Even if correcting is necessary, we assure the child that while we may dislike a particular “action”, we love and respect their “person”. We encourage children to make friends and to be friendly.
