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Kids ‘R’ Kids is proud to deliver first-class child care and early education to our community for families with children aged 6 weeks through 4 years. We also offer before and after school programs for children 5 to 12 years of age who attend local elementary schools for kindergarten through 5th grade.

We want to meet you and show you around our Learning Academy. Remember to Like us on Facebook and be sure to visit our blog often for great advice on everything from education to parenting.

Our Mission Statement

Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy provides a secure, nurturing, and educational environment for children. Our school is a place for children to bloom into responsible, considerate, and contributing members of society.

Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy wants all children to have the opportunity to grow physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually by playing, exploring, and learning with others in a fun, safe, and healthy environment.

As a family-owned and operated school, Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy welcomes positive family involvement and encourages a parent-teacher approach where the needs of every child come first!

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Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy is fully accredited and offers the ultimate foundation for your child. We are very proud to provide the most effective educational programs and innovative facilities for children 6 weeks through 12 years of age.

Our Exclusive Curriculum

Our exclusive line of curriculum is designed specifically for every developmental stage of education with theme-based units, specific learning activities and teacher-friendly lesson plans. As a parent, rest assured your child is benefiting and advancing from the most innovative curriculum available.

1/9: Large separate playgrounds are designed for ultimate play for infants, toddlers, preschool and school age children.

2/9: Our School Age Program provides an engaging and collaborative environment.

3/9: Our Toddler Program encourages each child to practice skills and develop independence.

4/9: Introduction to literacy begins with our earliest learners with exclusive Infant Curriculum that exceeds other typical childcare services.

5/9: The Kids ‘R’ Kids exclusive STEAM Ahead® Curriculum implements various activities to develop skills in science, technology, engineering, art and math.

6/9: School buses with seat belts provide transportation to and from local elementary schools as well as to planned field trips.

7/9: Hands-on activities (such as patterns, measurements and shapes) are important for developing your child into an abstract thinker.

8/9: Engaging activities thoughtfully engineered to encourage innovation, collaboration and imagination.

9/9: The Kids ‘R’ Kids Staff is central to our success. Each member is carefully selected and extensively trained to provide the best in early childhood development and childcare.

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Kids ‘R’ Kids is locally owned and operated. We are very proud of our innovative facility that provides effective educational programs for children 6 weeks through 12 years of age. Our schools are approximately 19000 square feet with over 12 classroom suites a cafeteria a computer room a large activity gym for our after -schoolers and five large playgrounds for separate age groups! At Kids ‘R’ Kids we know you want the absolute best for your children and we provide you a way to see your child all day on camera.

We have two-three cameras in room and a few in the cafeteria so you will get to see your child most of the time! Please read through our information if you have any additional questions feel free to contact us. We love children and are dedicated to making our school a great success. Our door is always open for parents to come and discuss their needs ask questions give suggestions and comments. We encourage you to come take a tour and meet our staff. We are confident that you will agree with us that this is the best environment for your child!
Kids ‘R’ Kids offers a variety of unique features and many advantages that set us apart as an industry leader.

  • Our facilities are individually owned and operated. With active involved owners the highest standards are proudly upheld in each facility and program. Owners are on-site to ensure availability to staff and parents. Most of our owners are parents and grandparents – their children are having a great time growing up in the family business.
  • Our exclusive curriculum sets Kids ‘R’ Kids Schooo of Quality Learning apart from other centers and early childcare educators. Our full-time Kids ?R? Kids Curriculum Department is always expanding the curriculum for a truly tailored approach to the early childhood industry.
  • Your child’s safety and security is important to us. Our facilities have the highest safety precautions including features such as security cameras staffed front desks telephones in every room and a coded secure entrance.
  • Our program values are exceptional. We strive to remain affordable while maintaining the highest standards in early childhood education curriculum programming and state-of-the-art facilities.
  • We offer a kid-sized cafeteria where nutritious meals are served daily. Our full-service kitchen and certified food service staff prepares USDA approved meals in a sanitary environment away from classrooms.
  • Our classrooms feature tempered glass walls for maximum visibility and safety. This promotes an open bright atmosphere as well as a clean environment. Developmental transitions to the next classroom are smoother when a child is able to see where he will be moving and of course where he has been.
  • Internet access is always available for parents and grandparents to become involved in their child?s daily activities at school by viewing a password secured site.
  • We have a large activity room for school-aged children. It is designed to promote a healthy lifestyle along with a positive approach to help diffuse the built-up energy with which we are most familiar.
  • Infant child and adult certification in CPR and First Aid is mandatory for our entire staff.
  • All of our facilities have a similar look and layout therefore families relocating have a familiar place for their childcare and school age needs in their new community.
  • Kids ‘R’ Kids is dedicated to maintaining a loving happy friendly environment. We understand that love is the most important key to any child’s growth.
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ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE? – Our Texas – Russian Newspaper in Houston, Dallas, San-Antonio, Austin, Texas

I met Phillip Irwin when he was one of the first to come to the Russian Cultural Center to study Russian. People decide to learn Russian for very different reasons: some want to find a Russian bride, some need to speak Russian on business… Phillip decided that he needed to know the language because he and his wife adopted two girls from Russia. Moreover, the children were very small and, of course, did not remember anything: Kira – 7 months, and the eldest Masha – 2 years. Often, not all Russian-speaking parents care about the preservation of Russian culture and language in their children. Pam and Phillip Irwin have a completely different attitude to the Russian roots of their children.

The Irwins live in Katy, and their Russian neighbors were very surprised to learn that Phillip and Pam, who at the time already had one adopted girl from Houston, were going to Russia to adopt another child. “Why do you need this,” the neighbors did not understand, “after all, these are problem children. It’s hard to make good people out of them.” As Phillip points out, the same stereotype is common in Russia. But he and his wife thought differently: “God wants us to do this.”

They first came to Russia in 2004. It was January, and from warm Houston, Pam and Phillip ended up in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region. We lived for a week in a hotel, came to the orphanage, met with the staff, with the chosen baby, processed the documents. The adoption process is very lengthy, requiring a huge amount of paperwork and a lot of money. The adoption of each child costs about 50 thousand dollars. Since this is done through an American adoption agency, it provides everything you need: housing, transportation, and an interpreter. After arriving and getting to know the child, you decide if it is right for you, then you are assigned a date for a hearing in court. You leave and return to this day, so that later, if the decision is positive, you can go home with your adopted child. The whole procedure takes quite a lot of time, as all your documents will be checked, including health status, criminal history, financial status and much more. “The social worker came to our house and talked to our friends and neighbors,” says Phillip. “The fire inspector checked the security of our house, but this is correct, it is very important to know which family a small person falls into.”

Phillip notes that the orphanage in Kemerovo was very clean, the staff is friendly and they try very hard to do their best for the little ones. But when one teacher has 14 children, she physically cannot pay enough attention to them. Nobody rocks the babies, does not hold them in their arms, which is so important in infancy. Due to the lack of heat, these babies develop more slowly.

The second girl was adopted in the Moscow orphanage #10. She was very thin – skin and bones. The child is used to rocking himself, covering his face with his hands and gently rocking. The girl continued to fall asleep like this for a long time, having arrived in Houston. I had to come to Moscow three times, there were some problems with the visa. “Of course, this entailed additional expenses, but the whole family spent 3 weeks in Moscow, and even invited 16-year-old Lyudmila Panushkina, a girl from the Kemerovo orphanage # 95, who became friends on the first visit,” Phillip recalls. – How happy she was: we showed everything that could be shown in Moscow. After all, she had never been there and saw little in her life. It is a tragedy when children grow up in an orphanage, as they are completely unprepared for an independent life. 90% of them will fall into the criminal world, use drugs. These children need families! ”(They have been corresponding with 20-year-old Lyudmila ever since, her fate is not indifferent to Irvin).

When the girls arrived in Houston, they were immediately taken to the doctors at the Texas Children’s Hospital. The Irvines were lucky, both were practically healthy, only one had a rash all over her body, and she remained a very shy child for a long time.

Now three wonderful daughters are growing up in the family: Kayla is 13 years old, Kira from Novokuznetsk – 9 and Kenne (Masha) from Moscow – 7. Pam’s mother is a housewife. She still goes to special courses to this day, where they teach how to deal with children who were deprived of maternal attention in the first years and months of their lives. In America, as in many Western countries, they abandoned orphanages – children are sent to other families for education.

Until recently, many couples chose Russia as a country for adoption, because the process was well organized there. For example, in Vietnam, Romania was either allowed to take children, or forbidden. In Russia, everything was stable.

Now, according to Phillip, the situation with orphanage children in Russia is terribly bleak. He is very fond of the Russian people, but he considers what the Russian government is doing to be fundamentally wrong. “Political and economic issues should not be confused with social ones. You can’t sacrifice the fate of children,” Phillip Irwin is sure.

He does not even think of interfering in the internal affairs of Russia, as some Russians now, unfortunately, believe. He just does what he can to keep the kids happy. His girls are very active in church, they do gymnastics, dance, and this year they started playing softball. We look at family photos where everyone smiles happily. On several of them, there are not three girls, but four. “Last year, a girl from a small Bashkir town, Alina Gabdrakhmanova, came to us on a student exchange program,” Phillip explains. “She was so happy when the whole family went to Disney World for spring break!”

Such a family is not unique. The Irwins maintain relationships with other Houston parents who have adopted children from Russia. There are many such families all over America. Since 1990, about 60,000 Russian children have been adopted in the United States. But in the Irwin family, it is precisely the respect that they instill in their children for Russia that is striking. It may be hard for the reader to believe, but Pam and Irvine hired a special agent to track down the girls’ biological mothers, which also cost a lot of money. They contacted these women and recorded their video messages for their daughters. Each had their own reasons for sending their children to orphanages, the Irwins do not condemn them in any way and want their daughters to understand this as well.

It is not clear how some Russians are inclined to see some kind of trick or selfish interests in such pure human impulses?

CHILDREN AND STRESS – Our Texas – Russian Newspaper in Houston, Dallas, San-Antonio, Austin, Texas

Professional psychologist’s advice

We all know about stress. And we talk about stress much more than we would like. But what to do, we live in a world where stress has become an integral part of life. What is stress?

When something happens around us, especially something that is unusual and unfamiliar to us, tension arises in our body. This is normal and good in its own way – all our organs are ready and waiting for our brain to answer the questions: Is it dangerous? Should I fight or escape? Or just wait? And our body continues to be in tension – adrenaline, norepinephrine and cortisol are released into the blood, the heart rate rises, muscles tighten, all feelings become aggravated – we are ready. Why exactly – it will decide the brain. Maybe you need to resist, maybe you need to run, or maybe you just need to relax – it was a false alarm.

Once upon a time at the institute, I observed an experiment in the physiology laboratory. There were rats in the cages. Fed, groomed. A cat walked around the lab. Also fed and groomed. He could not get to the rats, and apparently did not want to. But the caged rats saw him all the time. And after a while, these fed and well-groomed rats began to die and an excess of corticosterone (a hormone similar to cortisol in humans) was found in their blood. This interesting but brutal experiment was carried out as part of research into the effects of prolonged stress on organisms.

Hans Selye, a Canadian physician and scientist, dealt with stress in the middle of the last century. He defined stress as a general adaptation syndrome of the body, consisting of three stages.

The first reaction of the body is a surge of anxiety, a readiness to run or fight. But what happens if the brain does not make any decision, we do not run and do not fight, and the tension builds up?

Then comes the second stage of the reaction to stress – resistance. That is, our body is trying to adapt to an external situation that causes tension in the body. And also regulate hormone levels, heartbeat, relax muscles, etc. Like how we can function in this state, like how we can concentrate on finishing a project, kind of like we can not flinch at the mention of the name of the boss, whose presence causes the heart to beat, involuntary contraction fists and gnashing of teeth. It seems to be…

But for some reason, our stomach starts to ache (an old gastritis?), our back hurts (we sit a lot?), our hearts prick (pressure?)… We catch colds easily, concentrate with difficulty, forget a lot, sleep poorly, gain weight. We are not happy with children, irritate spouses, and we are nervous with or without reason. This means that the third stage of the stress response has begun – exhaustion.

We often forget that children live in the same world as we do, that children have the same reactions to stress as adults, and that children can be much more sensitive to environmental factors than adults, and that there are many more factors for children than for adults.

One of the biggest stressors for children is stressed parents. Children feel very well when their parents feel bad, and for them this parental state becomes a constant source of stress.

What else is a stress factor for children? Morning rush. Yes, don’t be surprised. “Hurry!”, “What, you haven’t dressed yet ?!”, “Yes, hurry up, you bastard!” , “Well, how long can you wait ?!” And this is repeated day after day, and day after day the child experiences stress.

What about parental disappointment when a child doesn’t win a tournament or takes first place in a drawing competition? (“We spent so much money on this art school, and you?”)

there would be no time for stupidity. Overload for the child, as well as for the parents, is stressful. What about changing schools? What about peer pressure? What about parent fights? And this is just a small part of what can cause prolonged stress in children. And prolonged stress is both psychological and physiological disorders.

But even if you become ideal parents, you cannot remove all the stressors from children. You will not be able to protect the child from his friend, who suddenly for some reason did not want to be friends with your son anymore, from the boy with whom your daughter is in love and who does not pay attention to her, from the injustice of the teacher who punished the innocent, from the news on TV after which the child cries and asks “Well, why is that?”

In other words, you cannot shield your child from a life that is often cruel and unfair. But you can help him and teach him how to deal with stress. It is very important to teach the child to manage their actions in stressful conditions – to regulate emotions, attention and behavior. It is necessary to help the child find the source of stress, ask him to tell how he feels and ask what he can do in this situation.

Loss of control of a situation often causes loss of control of feelings. And vice versa. Guide your child to problem solving. Together with him, plan actions, help him determine what consequences may be after certain actions. Guide him, but do not decide for him. Teach your child to regulate emotions – slow breathing (inhale for four counts, exhale for four counts) or meditation.

And please don’t deny his feelings. Do not say “Forget it!”, “It’s okay”, “It will pass”, “You will find other friends / girlfriends”. By doing this, you belittle the feelings of the child, as if you were telling him, “And you are nothing, and your feelings are not important to me.