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Bright Horizons at Belltown

Downtown Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Keyfey Child Care

New Holly

Seattle, WA

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Bright Horizons at West 8th

Downtown Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Bright Horizons at Fourth & Madison

Downtown Seattle

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Bright Horizons at Seneca Street

Downtown Seattle

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West Seattle Bright Horizons

Fairmount Park

Seattle, WA

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Bright Horizons at University Village

Northeast Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Bright Horizons at South Lake Union

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South Lake Union

Seattle, WA

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Bright Horizons at Interbay

Interbay

Seattle, WA

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Cultural Care Au Pair

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Aaliyah Family Learning Program

New Holly

Seattle, WA

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Northgate KinderCare

Northgate

Seattle, WA

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Maymun Childcare

New Holly

Seattle, WA

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Anisa’s Daycare

Seattle, WA

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Seattle KinderCare

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Downtown Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Wallingford KinderCare

4.0

Seattle, WA

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Ganamo Nugesi Hussein

Seattle, WA

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Once Upon a Time Early Childhood Bilingual Family Home Daycare

Seattle, WA

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Linda Y Mai

Greater Duwamish

Seattle, WA

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University Temple Children’s School

Northeast Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Edugether

West Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Hidaya Family Child Care

Northgate

Seattle, WA

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CDFD Mandarin Childcare

Seattle, WA

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Suad Home Daycare

North Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Northgate Early Learning Center

Northgate

Seattle, WA

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The Meadowbrook Schoolhouse

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The Meadowbrook Schoolhouse

5.0

Seattle, WA

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Seattle Amistad School

Northwest Seattle

Seattle, WA

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North Seattle College ASB Child Development Center

Northwest Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Washington International School – Seattle

5.0

Seattle, WA

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Kim Hong Daycare

5. 0

Greater Duwamish

Seattle, WA

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Friends & Learn Family Home Daycare

Highline

Seattle, WA

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Fatax Home Childcare

Rainier View

Seattle, WA

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Bedriya Adem Kamal

High Point

Seattle, WA

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Fatuma Ahmed

Seattle, WA

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Whizz Kids Academy (Northgate)

Northgate

Seattle, WA

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Discovery Child Care and Preschool

Seattle, WA

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Seattle Amistad School (Amistad Central)

Minor

Seattle, WA

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Orange Tea School

Seattle, WA

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Little Laurels Montessori Preschool

Cedar Park

Seattle, WA

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University of Washington Children’s Center at West Campus

Northeast Seattle

Seattle, WA

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University of Washington Children’s Center ( Laurel Village)

Northeast Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Tiny Talking Hands

Ballard

Seattle, WA

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Ages In Stages Childcare Infant Center

West Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Cosmopolitan Kids Uptown (Queen Anne)

Lower Queen Anne

Seattle, WA

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Mother’s Place Quality Daycare

Minor

Seattle, WA

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Paradise Family Home Childcare

Rainier Beach

Seattle, WA

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Primm Tabernacle Day Care Center

Rainier Valley

Seattle, WA

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Whizz Kids Academy (Magnolia)

Southeast Magnolia

Seattle, WA

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YuChai Childcare and Preschool

Northeast Seattle

Seattle, WA

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Fairview Christ Child Center

Northeast Seattle

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West Seattle Montessori School

Highline

Seattle, WA

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About — Seattle Infant Development Center

History & Mission

SIDC was first organized as an infant childcare center in November of 1977 by Dee McQuesten, a woman on a mission desiring high quality childcare in close proximity to her place of employment. Consistent since its inception, SIDC fosters the familial relationship and encourages parental involvement.

Since 1977, SIDC has continued to expand to include children up to six years of age with over 50 children enrolled across five different classrooms.

1. SIDC works tirelessly to create a community where families, staff, and students treat each other with respect. We do this by constantly evolving, allowing for the integration of new ideas, and focusing on tolerance, compassion, and appreciation of our differences. Teamwork between these stakeholders allows us to collaborate and create culturally competent networks and partnerships.

2. SIDC takes pride in our ability to instill reliability and integrity in our students by teaching them to be moral agents, active members of democracy, and responsible, fair, and altruistic problem-solving citizens of the future. Both our staff and our families are expected to role-model these behaviors for our students and one another.

3. SIDC’s education is geared toward not only well-rounded academic skills, but also teaching life-long, independent and interpersonal skills. Our teachers, Early Education professionals, teach interdisciplinary knowledge, inquisitiveness, patience, exploration, autonomy and character-building. We strive to create opportunities for families to extend this learning at home.

4. Our school represents a home-away-from-home for our families and we believe communication and cooperation in parent-school-community partnerships allow us to be the resilient, ever-growing, proactive and understanding Center it is today. We are actively working to serve and continue representing a diverse community of learners and provide a safe, warm, and supportive environment to all those with us.

Philosophy

SIDC provides a warm and caring environment to all families regardless of special needs, lifestyles, race, or religious beliefs.

To ensure high quality childcare, SIDC’s philosophy rests on seven core principles:

• Each child is a unique individual with differing needs, rhythms and rates of development. Interaction with each child takes place in accordance with the child’s own level of maturation and unique temperament.

• Children are naturally motivated to learn. SIDC emphasizes a safe and stimulating environment, filled with age-appropriate materials that encourage freedom of exploration and the development of competence.

• Children develop a sense of security by learning to trust. We therefore stress the importance of consistency and appropriate responses to the child’s expressed needs.

• One of the prime ways children learn is through their interactions with the people around them. To this end we attempt to integrate children and staff of diverse backgrounds.

• The best group care setting for a child’s development is one that closely models care given in the home and supports each child’s primary caregivers, their parent(s). We work to accomplish this through close contact with parents and parent participation.

• Children develop a valuable self-concept when respect and consideration are used on a daily basis in interactions.

• Small group size, as well as low child-to-staff ratios, help encourage a warm loving environment.

Quick Facts

• Founded in: 1977

• Located inside Plymouth Church (if interested for more information on the Church, click here)

• Enrollment: 50+ Children

• Full-time and part-time care provided

• Ages served: 1 month through 5 years

• Classrooms: Infant through Pre-Kindergarten

• Faculty: Over 20 teachers, with an average of 8 years experience

• Tax status: 501(c)3

Facilities

• Age appropriate classrooms

• Partially shaded playground

• On site kitchen – wholesome meals and snacks prepared daily

• Exterior doors equipped with security keypads

• 20-minute free parking in garage below the Center

Normal Hours of Operation

Monday – Friday 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Affiliations & Partnerships

• Early Achievers: Level 3

• Seattle Police Department

• Member Child Care Directors Association of Greater Seattle

• USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

Spanish Language

SIDC includes Spanish language learning as part of its program for all enrolled children. This weekly program is provided in SIDC classrooms by The Spanish Language School, a local multi-lingual language school. Their goal is to create an environment where exposure to language is both natural and fun. Children acquire language best as they interact with people and play. The program is designed to include words and phrases that children want to use and is presented in multiple ways. During each class, children will be exposed to a rich language environment as the teacher covers functional language, vocabulary and conversation builders.

Learning a second language at an early age has a positive effect on intellectual growth, enriches and enhances a child’s mental development and leaves children with more flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, a better ear for listening and a head start for language requirements in college.

Emergency Preparedness

SIDC conducts routine fire and earthquake drills with staff and children.

Since 1995, the Center has implemented a program focused exclusively on preparedness in the event of an earthquake emergency. The following highlights a few key components of the program:

• Out-of-state sister childcare center. Non-effected place where parents can call to get information if local phone lines are down.

• The Center retains on site emergency supplies and individualized 72-hour survival kits for every enrolled child, every staff member and several for visiting parents.

• All classrooms have large furniture secured and shatterproof film applied to windows.

Snow & Extreme Weather Closures

The SIDC Snow Closure Policy generally follows the same closure schedule as the Seattle Public Schools. Usually, if Seattle Public Schools are closed for inclement weather we are also closed.

Non-Discrimination Statement

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English. OSPI CN Programs Reference Sheet OSPI CNS November 2015 To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D. C. 20250-9410; fax: (202) 690-7442; or email: [email protected].

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

A test by a child, or How to prevent happiness from destroying relationships

Ekaterina Ushakhina

When all your life you try to notice only the good around you, then you perceive the birth of children as cloudless happiness. And all the people who complain about how hard it is to raise a baby, you consider pessimists.

And one day a happy day comes – a cute little ball is at home. And along with it, sleepless nights, fatigue and the first family conflicts.

From this moment on, the rose-colored glasses fade, and you begin to perceive parenthood and everything connected with it more objectively.

The book “Trial by a Child” from psychologists Gottman helps to survive all the difficulties that appear in a family with the birth of a child.

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Its authors John and Julie Gottman became parents rather late (after 40), but before that they devoted their whole lives to solving problems of marriage and even opened the Family Relations Research Center in Seattle.

And when a baby appeared in their house, they finally understood how it happens in practice, not in theory. It turned out that it was not easy. The birth of a child does not improve the atmosphere in the family and relations between spouses. Yes, children are happiness, but at the same time a serious test for parents and a test of the strength of family ties.

According to statistics, 75% of couples have serious quarrels, misunderstandings and insoluble problems in the first year after the birth of a child.

These frightening figures are also reflected in the Gottman family. When their child grew up, they decided to share their experiences with other parents by writing a book. In it, they open their parents’ eyes, help them overcome difficulties, avoid mistakes and avoid divorce. They also suggest behavioral tactics that will help save a marriage.

All the advice of psychologists is quite simple and obvious, but this is exactly what we all forget about most often.

1. Distribute housework and childcare

Of course, we don’t live in the Stone Age anymore, but still in many families, all housework and childcare is made to be shouldered by women. This is especially acute in the first time after the birth of a child. Endless diapers, night feedings, walks, cooking, laundry, chronic lack of sleep… And so every day in a circle. If the father does not take any part in household chores at all, then sooner or later the mother loses her nerve. She starts to get offended and conflict. This could be the first crack in a marriage.

How to solve the problem? Do not want quarrels – distribute responsibilities. Agree on this in advance, while still on the shore.

The participation of fathers in children’s games like “cuckoo” or “ball” predetermines a higher intellectual development of the child in the future. Children with fathers actively involved in their upbringing have stronger speech abilities, a higher IQ, and better school performance.

But children are not the only ones who benefit from good fathers. Wives also feel happier and give more to their children if their husbands show themselves as gentle and sympathetic parents.

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2. Thank each other

A kind word is also nice for a cat. This saying becomes especially relevant when there are more than two of you. Thank each other for everything, even the little things.

For a delicious dinner, for a diaper change, for a light bulb screwed in on time. It’s very simple, but extremely useful.

When you say thank you to a friend, you show that you appreciate your spouse and let him know that he is dear to you.

Numerous studies by child psychologists indicate that even the youngest children are very receptive to parental relationships. Children under one year old, whose parents often quarrel, develop worse than their peers. Both intellectually and emotionally.

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Touch each other

When you sleep for three hours a day and don’t have time to just take a shower, you don’t want to hug your partner and make at least some signs of attention. There is simply no strength for it.

This is perhaps the most important mistake of spouses, which leads to alienation and quarrels.

Do not forget that you are husband and wife. Each of you needs warmth and care. And even a simple one-minute hug or massage can be the lifeline of your marriage.

Psychologists say that daily massage is very useful for women after childbirth: it acts on them in the same way as antidepressants. In addition, it brings partners together, helps to get rid of depression and fatigue.

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4. Talk

Psychologist Dan Wile believes that the basis of any quarrel is a failed conversation. If the partners had talked at the right time, there would have been no quarrel.

Try at least sometimes to talk heart to heart with each other. At the same time, you should not complain and blame your partner for all the troubles. Talk about how you feel and ask your spouse for advice and support.

It’s as simple as two and two.

5. You are a team

Remember that you are a family, a team and more than just people living together. Do not pull the blanket over yourself, turn off selfishness, put the interests of the family above your own, and look into each other’s eyes more often.

Do not criticize your partner or make him feel guilty. Avoid insults and caustic remarks.

Research shows that the transformation of a couple into a team, into “we”, not only determines how well partners survive pregnancy, but also what kind of child they will have – whiny and passive or cheerful and active.

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Remember. You are parents. And everything that you say and do today in one way or another is reflected in the child.

Based on the book “Child’s Trial”.
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The US Labor Relations Administration found it illegal to fire two Amazon employees. They criticized the company

The US National Labor Relations Administration found it illegal to fire two Amazon employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa. Reuters calls them “the company’s top critics”.

• The designers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters were laid off in April 2020. Prior to that, they circulated a petition among colleagues demanding better working conditions during the pandemic, extra pay for work in hazardous conditions, more funds for child care and more paid sick leave.
• Amazon spokeswoman Jaycee Anderson said the company parted ways with these employees because they repeatedly violated the organization’s internal policies when they publicly spoke out about its work and incited other employees to do so, and not because they were critical of management.
• Former Amazon designer Emily Cunningham called the Labor Relations Board’s decision a “moral victory. ”

Amazon employees dissatisfied with the company’s actions at the beginning of the pandemic

Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa are not the only employees who left the company after publicly criticizing its actions during the spread of the coronavirus.

• Amazon has fired Chris Smalls, the organizer of a strike at a sorting center in New York State. At the end of March 2020, about a hundred employees demanded to close all sorting centers and warehouses for two weeks, send employees on paid leave, and also carry out a complete disinfection of the premises where cases of coronavirus infection were detected. One of the strikers’ posters read: “It’s hard to close a company for 3-4 weeks, but it’s even harder to close the coffin of a loved one for the rest of your life.” However, the company did not heed the demands. Cases of COVID-19 infectionwere identified in 19 Amazon warehouses, but only those located in states with strict quarantines were closed. The dismissal of Chris Smalls in the company was explained not by a strike, but by the fact that he created a threat to his colleagues because he approached them too close, violating social distance. Moreover, Smalls went to work, despite the fact that the day before he was in contact with an infected coronavirus.
• Following this, it became known that the company was parting ways with Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa.
• Tim Bray, Vice President of Amazon and Lead Engineer at Amazon Web Services, left of his own accord. Thus, he protested against the actions of the company. In his open letter, he stated that “Amazon’s poor attitude towards employees was the result of toxicity that has permeated its corporate culture.” Bray said that, despite the high salary of $1 million a year, he could not stay in this job, because it would have meant approval of the actions of the company’s management, which he despised.

How big companies fire the unhappy

• In 2018, Tesla parted ways with Richard Ortiz, one of the organizers of the campaign to form a union at the plant in California. And then the head of the company, Elon Musk, posted a tweet: “Nothing can stop the Tesla team at our plant from holding a vote on the formation of a union. We can arrange tomorrow. But why pay membership dues and give up stock options just like that? We already have twice the safety as when there were unions at the plant, and everyone already receives health insurance.” Two years later, the US Labor Relations Administration declared Ortiz’s dismissal illegal. The organization decided to return him to work, to compensate for the loss of earnings resulting from the dismissal. Elon Musk was ordered to delete a tweet criticizing unions, which the management considered threatening.
• In 2019, Google fired Lawrence Burland and Katherine Spears, who, along with others at the tech giant, were opposed to a contract with IRI Consultants, which specializes in crackdowns on labor unions. Berland tried to persuade colleagues to organize a protest, Spears created a pop-up that was displayed when visiting the IRI Consultants website.