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Welcome to Childtime Learning Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma!

Our facility offers a superior Infant program, Preschool program, and more. We are NECPA accredited and a 3-Star facility. Our staff averages more than 20 years of experience and continue to receive ongoing training in Early Childhood Education and safety.

We’re committed to keeping you connected throughout the day while your child is in our care. Get access to live streaming video of your child’s classroom, plus other real-time updates, with our exclusive mobile app for families, SproutAbout.

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I love the school and the school staff, Ms. Rhonda and staff are great. I will not go anywhere else, they are that great

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Lots of love and care for my grandchildren .

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I had a very good experience with Childtime so far . The teachers are friendly and loving to my daughter who has been going there since she was 4 years old and our experience so far has been very positive .

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The teachers are kind caring people that value all the children, they know every child and their parents by name and the adminstrative staff is knowledgeable friendly and extremely competent. I would never consider another facility.

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Local School Phone Number: 405.751.6930405.751.6930


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Oklahoma City’s Child Advocacy Center

We are committed to safe & healthy exchanges and visitation interactions for children and their families

Committed to fostering healthy and harmonious exchange & visitation interactions for children and their families

What We Do

We offer the best choices for your child

We offer the best choices for your child

Supervised Visitation

The Child’s Time offers on-site visitations with a trained supervisor, who is present with the child(ren) at all times.

Therapeutic Supervised Visitation

The Child’s Time offers family therapy with licensed, professional counselors.

Monitored Child Exchanges

The Child’s Time offers safe transitions between the custodial parent and non-custodial parent.

Co-Parenting Classes

The Child’s Time offers “Building the Child’s Resiliency in a Divorce.” This class meets state requirements for parents seeking a divorce/separation (43 O.S. Sec. 107.2).

Who we are

We are a professional organization

We are a professional organization

The Child’s Time works for the rights of children to maintain contact with their parent and significant people in their lives in a safe and comfortable setting. Children’s wellbeing, emotional and physical safety are our primary concerns.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need bring with me for intake?

Bring your state issued identification, copies of any court orders, VPO, and other documentation you believe would be beneficial.

How do I schedule a visit?

The Child’s Time director in accordance with the parties’ schedules and the availability of the supervisors set the schedule for visitation.

Who supervises the visitation?

Supervisors all have backgrounds in child welfare and/or law and/or social work. The supervisors are trained and work under the protocols and guideline of the Supervised Visitation Network.

Security

Your Safety & Security is important to us

We are committed to assisting families

Safety is very important while providing or taking part in our services. Therefore, The Child’s Time has several security measures in place. Our staff is trained in supervised visitation, domestic violence and child abuse and have passed a criminal background check.

Important Information

Contact Information

Facility:  6903 NW 122nd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73142

Mailing:  6907 NW 122nd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73142

Phone: 405-999-2606

Scheduled Visitation: Tue – Sun 10 am to 8 pm

Office Hours: Tue – Fri 4 pm to 8 pm

Intakes:  By appointment only

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“Special time” for a child

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“Special time” for a child

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The concept of “special time” may initially cause confusion for many parents, because they already spend a significant part of their time with their child. And the younger the child, the more parental attention he receives. However, there is a significant difference between daily communication as needed and specially allotted time that is completely devoted to the child.

In the first case, this is communication at the household level, associated with parental responsibilities: feed, change clothes, take a walk with him; check the lessons of a student, discuss family issues with a teenager, etc. And it’s a completely different thing when parents put aside all routine tasks and pay full attention to the child. It is this time that psychologists call special.

The essence of “special time” is that an adult communicates with a child as an equal and follows his rules, focusing his attention on the child as much as possible, attending only to him, without being distracted by any extraneous matters.

Why a child needs to allocate “special time”

Firstly , those moments when parents listen and hear their children gradually form a sense of self-worth in the child.

Secondly, , children react more calmly to the busyness of their parents, because they know for sure: after some time, mom and dad will definitely pay attention to them.

Thirdly, , for a child, this is an opportunity to talk about the difficulties he has encountered in life, and together with his parents to beat situations.

Is “special time” hours or minutes?

The main thing is not the quantity, but the quality of the time spent with the child. Even ten minutes of a truly sincere and confidential conversation will, in its effect, block an hour during which, being together, everyone was doing their own thing.

You should start with the amount of time that the parent can allocate (and sometimes endure), because during this time the child can do whatever he needs.

The child always offers a game, an activity! At this time, he is in charge. The parent plays the role that the child offers him.

It is very important to fully accept children’s feelings: at this time, the child can express his feelings as he wants, and adults should not be angry, annoyed and offended by him. How long parents can withstand the manifestation of children’s emotions – from this amount of time you should start.

Psychologists note that in these moments adults can expect not only conversations, but also games of “Mothers and Daughters” with punishment of mom or dad in the corner, as an educator and pupil with the designation of problems. A teenage daughter may want mom or dad to read aloud a given piece before bed. There is also a desire to fight – you just need to stipulate the rules: do not hit on the head and stomach, fight only with pillows so as not to damage the body, but at the same time free the soul.

Until the age of two, children need constant care. Receiving maximum parental attention, the baby feels that he is loved, and therefore there is no need to allocate special time for communication with him – there is already enough of it. But the older the child becomes, the more he needs such moments when parental attention will belong only to him.

Preschoolers need at least ten minutes of special time each day. To do this, you don’t need to come up with something complicated at all – just talk with your child, ask him about what he did in kindergarten, what he learned new things, what he would like to play. Here it is important that the baby feels that his worries, experiences, new knowledge and skills are important and interesting to parents. And this interest must certainly be sincere. Children are keenly aware of falsehood, and if communication with them is formal, then the special time spent with them will only cause mutual irritation.

Children between the ages of six and twelve may not need to set aside “special time” every day, but it should certainly be at least half an hour a week. It is important that children know exactly when they can expect individual time with their parents.

Teenagers no longer need parental attention so much: they can’t wait to feel like adults. But it would be a mistake to think that they do not need it at all. This opinion is often formed due to the “ruffy” behavior of a growing child, for whom friends for some time become closer to their parents. However, despite their demonstrative independence, teenagers, albeit not as often as before, still want parental attention. And they should know that they can count on him. Even if your child doesn’t know how to spend a few minutes with his parents, just sit next to him.

There is no strict schedule here – each family decides for itself whether it will be heart-to-heart conversations after school or joint leisure on a day off. The main thing is that the child knows for sure that he will spend certain minutes or hours in a comfortable, trusting atmosphere with mom and dad and express his feelings.

“Special time” with boys

Many boys spend more time with their mothers than with their fathers. Psychologists recommend that fathers, no matter how busy or tired they are, give their sons at least ten minutes a day of “special time. ” If dads come home when the kids are sleeping and leave while they are still sleeping, daily emails or text messages may be an option for interaction.

On weekends, you can get up ten minutes earlier than everyone else and talk to your son – sincerely and with interest.

If possible, on any holidays and weekends, fathers should find time to communicate with their sons.

When the people most important to children constantly show a desire to spend time with them, the child’s self-confidence grows.

How to Organize “Special Time”

• Choose a real time that you will regularly set aside as “special” time for your child.

• Do not allocate time “by force” – no one will benefit from this.

• Only if the child finds it difficult to independently determine what to do at this time, offer options.

• If the “special time” is not daily, then inform the child in advance about the next “special time” – let him think about what he wants to do.

• Don’t punish your child by canceling “special time.”

• Don’t cancel the “special time” no matter what happens. In special cases, it can be “shifted” a little.

• If there is more than one child in the family, designate a “special time” for each child, regardless of age.

Try this technique and see how your child’s behavior improves as you get closer to him.

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6 tips to teach your child to tell time – and turn this activity into a fun game

Why is half past six 06:30 and not 7? And on an electronic clock, is it generally 18:30? Why does time increase when we fly east? These questions confuse children. We tell you when and how to talk to your child about time – and teach him to be punctual.

When to teach a child to tell the time

In order to know the time by the clock, a child needs a number of skills:

• be able to count within 30, and preferably 60;
• determine which number is greater and which is less;
• navigate in space, know where the right, left, top, bottom are;
• basicly navigate in time, understand when morning, afternoon, evening and night come.

A child usually acquires these skills between the ages of 5 and 7. However, you can begin to introduce the child to the clock in the process of learning these concepts.

How to get started with time

The first steps in learning time do not have to be about numbers. The main thing is to show the child that time is part of our daily life.

For example, pay attention to the child what time it is on the clock at the moment when he wakes up, brushes his teeth, goes to kindergarten or school, returns from there, goes to bed. Ask him to restore the sequence of habitual actions and distribute what is usually done in the morning and what is done in the evening. If the child makes a mistake, gently correct him. Or you can try to confuse him, for example, by asking: “We all have dinner in the morning, right?” The main thing then is to explain what the mistake was.

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In a situation where you and your child are late (for example, standing in a traffic jam), calmly explain that usually the journey takes you a certain amount of time, and now – so many minutes more . Or indicate that the child has 20 minutes for cartoons: let him mark the time, and you set a timer. So he will gradually feel the importance of time, and he will have the motivation to study it.

How to explain to a child what time it is on the clock

When your child has a basic understanding of time, it’s time to start teaching him to tell the time by the clock. You can study a real clock with hands or make a cardboard model with your own hands. To do this, you need:

• Make a dial – it can be a circle cut out of cardboard, or a disposable plate.
• Put numbers around. To make it even, it is better to draw a vertical and horizontal reference line with a pencil through the center – they will have the numbers 12, 3, 6 and 9. Each quarter of the circle must be divided into three parts and the remaining numbers should be written on their borders.
• Draw and cut out the hands: the hour hand is shorter and the minute hand is longer. They can be made of cardboard of different colors.
• Attach the hands to the center of the dial with a push pin or wire.

The numbers can be designed the way the child likes: cut out of paper, placed on multi-colored figures or molded from plasticine. You can add associations to them, which usually happens to the child at each of the hours: he sleeps, eats, walks.

On the outer circle of the dial (both homemade and real), you can add stickers with the time on the electronic clock – next to the hour it will be 13, with two – 14, and so on. So the child will remember these correspondences over time. You can also add the designations of minutes: 10, 15, 20, 30, 45.

When the clock is ready, it is worth showing the child how the hands will be located in different circumstances: if it is exactly one in the afternoon, half or a quarter to two, fifteen minutes to three. Ask him to memorize the location of the hands and then line them up on his own when you verbally name the time.

On a real watch, you can invite the child to observe which of the hands runs faster – hour or minute, and discuss together why this happens (after all, an hour is 60 times longer than a minute, and when the hour hand made only one circle, the minute hand managed to turn around as many as 60 times ).

“Time is the first hour” – how to explain it

Adults use temporary concepts that often only confuse the child. For example, why is half past one 1:30 and not 2:30? Or what does “the first hour has gone” mean – where did he go, why is he the first and what time is it then?

You can solve the problem with the help of a pie or pizza – they need to be cut into two halves and explained: “Let’s pretend that you are an hour. This half is yours, and this is half of the other person. You already have a piece: it means you are an hour and a half, 01:30. When you have received your share and at 01:30, the time comes for the second to eat his half – half past one. The same with quarters: the child will get a quarter of a pie or pizza – and a quarter of the second will come.

But the concept of “a quarter to two” cannot be explained in this way

You can just imagine that it’s almost two o’clock in the afternoon, but a slice of pizza is missing until the exact time. If you close your eyes to this and count “a quarter to a minute”, then just two will work out.

To reinforce these concepts and not overeat pizza with pies, you can draw circles and hatch them in halves and quarters. Coloring pages will also help you remember five-minute intervals: by analogy with halves and quarters, you can discuss what time it is when adults say “five minutes to three” or “five minutes past seven”.

Concepts like “the first hour has begun” can be represented with the help of a relay race of runners. If the first hour has started, then the clock is a little over 01:00. At a distance of 01:59, he comes to the finish line, then the second hour starts. A child can also draw a runner on the dial – and dream up what will happen if the runner stops (or the clock breaks).

How to teach a child to tell the time using an electronic clock

Pay attention to the child that on a regular watch each digit is repeated twice a day. For example, 12 o’clock happens at noon and midnight, so we distinguish between “2 o’clock in the afternoon” and “2 o’clock in the morning.” But on an electronic clock, this is not necessary: ​​each of the 24 hours of the day is taken into account there.

Now you need to count together with the child in a circle of the dial from 1 to 12, and then continue counting from 13 to 24 (do not forget to note that on the electronic clock instead of 24 hours 00:00 is used and the countdown of a new day begins).

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The resulting figures should be signed on the drawn dial. And to better remember them, we offer a game. You will need dice: one pair will indicate hours, the other – minutes. Let’s drop the first pair. Dropped, for example, 1 and 6, which means 16 hours. Now the second pair, on it 4 and 5 – 45 minutes. We draw or show the resulting time on a homemade dial. Happened? And if you compete for time?

What else to tell a child about time

There are many interesting facts about time. With stories about them, you can interest the child, push him to explore the world. If he asks a “stupid” question, do not rush to brush it off – it is better to share your knowledge or look for the answer together. For example:

• Why, when we fly in an airplane to some countries, do we change the time? Because the planet rotates around its axis and the sun in different parts of the Earth rises at slightly different times, so the entire globe is divided into time zones. When we get to another time zone, we need to check what time it is there. And in some countries, they change the clock to adjust to the length of the day, because in winter the day is much shorter than in summer.
• Why are the watches so different: on the arm, on the wall, in the phone? People invented watches a very long time ago, and even mechanical watches did not exist back then. They were guided by the sun – there is a sundial even now. There are also hourglasses, water clocks, candle clocks, in which time is determined by the rate at which the candle melts. Mechanical watches were invented about 7 centuries ago, and electronic watches were invented not so long ago. Each person uses the watch that is more convenient for him.
• Why do I sometimes wake up before the alarm goes off? Because inside a person there is an internal biological clock – it is connected with sunlight and natural cycles that run daily. If you develop a mode, the alarm clock may not be needed at all.

When the child is older, you can tell him about the theory of relativity – that time can flow in a completely different way than we are used to.