Living, Loving and Being

01/02/2018

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Maya Angelou

"What makes an institution a good place to care for others?" asks Jim Greenman in the book, Caring Spaces, Learning Places (now newly revised by Mike Lindstrom). "It's the same furnishings that one finds in homes to accomplish the tasks, only now selected with an eye toward the rigors of group living...

Homes have 10 to 20 times the amount of square feet per occupant, and home furnishings receive much less wear. Caring for children means many soft places to hold and snuggle like couches and chairs, comfortable floors, pillows and the like...Caring requires rocking chairs, swings and hammocks, and out of the way padded places to help children through moments of lost control, humiliation and inconsolable loss."

For more information about Exchange's magazine, books, and other products pertaining to ECE, go to www.ccie.com.