Infants and Toddlers Together?

11/14/2018

Infants and Toddlers Together?

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.
John Erskine

“There’s no consensus on the best ways to group children under age two and one-half,” wrote Jim Greenman in the popular book, Caring Spaces, Learning Places (newly revised by Mike Lindstrom). “Travel from state to state, or country to country, and you will discover all sorts of grouping arrangements for children under three. They range from separating children every six months… to multi-age rooms for children six-weeks to two or even three-years-old….

While there are few ‘best ways’ or ‘set in stone’ requirements, there are certainly undesirable choices that lead to low quality, including the invisible cost to the child of drastic change every six-months.”

Are you in a program that serves infants and toddlers? If so, you are invited to leave a comment explaining how you’ve chosen to group infants and toddlers, and why. Thank you!

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