Lil' People's World

Locally & Family Owned Since 1994

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Parent Resource Center

Our Parent Resource Center aims to provide our parents and prospective parents with resources and information channels available to them that may aid them in their child's development and ensure their child receives the care they deserve.

Financial Support

King County Resources
  • King County Child Care Financial Assistance Program (CCFA)

King County has allocated funding to support King County families with the cost of their child care. Eligible families may receive financial assistance to pay for their child care at eligible providers. Click Here to learn more.

Washington State Resources
  • Working Connections Child Care (WCCC)

Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) helps eligible families pay for child care. When a family qualifies for child care subsidy benefits and chooses an eligible provider, the state pays a portion of the cost of child care. Click Here to learn more.

  • Seasonal Child Care

The Seasonal Child Care program pays child care subsidies for eligible families who: (1) Are seasonally employed in agricultural work; (2) Live in designated counties; and (3) Are not receiving TANF benefits.

The program’s purpose is to provide safe, licensed child care while parents work in agricultural settings. Click Here to learn more.

  • Other Statewide Financial Assistance Programs

The State of Washington provides a number of other financial assistance programs that are available for families. Click here to learn about them.

National Resources
  • ChildCare.gov

ChildCare.gov is a federal resource that helps families identify both state and federal programs that may be able to assist them with financial aid. Click here to learn more. 

  • Tax Benefits

The United States government has historically offered a variety of tax breaks for families that incur child care expenses. The total benefit can vary each year, and may be different from one family to another. Please refer to the IRS’s official website or a tax professional for any potential tax benefit you may receive. 

Department of Defense Child Care Network
  • DoD Child Care Network

Lil’ People’s World proudly partners with the Department of Defense Childcare Network.

Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN) is a DoD and U.S. Coast Guard fee assistance program for eligible families who cannot access military-operated child care due to distance or waitlists. With fee assistance, a portion of your child care costs is paid to offset the costs of community-based care. 

Fee assistance varies by branch of service. Please click below to learn more about your fee assistance and total benefit.

Childcare Advocacy

Advocate for Access to Childcare

The state of Washington is currently suffering from a shortage of child care, leaving thousands of families without the care they need. Learn of ways to get involved and advocate for the expansion of childcare through Child Care Aware of Washington.

Communicating with your Representation

One way you can get involved is by contacting your local government representative. Click Here and type in your address to identify your state and federal representation, and to retrieve their contact information.

Early Achievers

Early Achievers is Washington state’s quality recognition and improvement system, known in statute as a Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). It was developed to help early learning and school-aged programs offer high-quality care to support each child’s learning and development. Early Achievers is designed to:

  • Ensure children have high-quality early learning experiences to develop skills they need to be successful in school and life.
  • Support early learning professionals with resources like professional development, coaching, mental health consultation, and financial supports.
  • Help families and caregivers find high-quality child care that fits their unique needs.
 
Early Learning Facility (ELF) Development Grant

The Early Learning Facilities (ELF) Grant program was created in 2017 by Substitute House Bill 1777. Administered by the Washington State Department of Commerce, the program’s intent is to help meet the critical need for high quality early learning opportunities for children from income-eligible households through the expansion of early learning classrooms.

The ELF grant plays an instrumental role in the expansion of access to quality childcare statewide.Through grants and loans, the ELF program provides financial assistance to eligible organizations for the planning, renovation, purchase, and construction of early learning facilities and classrooms.

Washington State Legislative Agenda

Stay informed and review Washington State’s Legislative Agenda, and what your legislators are doing to pursue greater access to affordable childcare.

Common Parent Resources

Responding to Biting

The National Association for the Education of Young Children offers parents a greater understanding of biting behaviors in their article, Understanding and Responding to Children Who Bite.

Managing Screen Time

Click Here, and read our tips on how you can better manage your child’s screen time in an ever-evolving technological world.

Developing Communication Skills

Click Here, and read our Five Tips for Communication Development in Early Childhood

Inclusion

Click Here, to read our take on teach Inclusion to our young ones.

USDA Nutrition Guidlines

USDA offers a number of resources to help educate you on how you can best prepare nutritious meals for your child. Click Here, and select your child’s age group to get started.

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Pre-School Curriculum

We use a teaching strategy called “Creative Curriculum,” when educating our Pre-Schoolers. Creative Curriculum primarily focuses on:

  • Meeting the child’s basic needs
  • Fostering social-emotional development
  • Developing relationships
  • Supporting cognition and brain development

Creative Curriculum for preschool is a comprehensive, science based, early childhood education curriculum that has demonstrated through studies to have a positive impact on the quality of the child’s classroom conduct, as well as improvements to cognitive and social-emotional development.

Creative Curriculum promotes positive physical, social, and cognitive outcomes for children through a variety of activities including fine motor, large motor, sensory, art, dramatic play, and science activities.

Toddler Curriculum

We use a teaching strategy called, “Creative Curriculum,” when educating our Toddlers. Creative Curriculum primarily focuses on:

  • Meeting the child’s basic needs
  • Fostering social-emotional development
  • Developing relationships
  • Supporting cognition and brain development

The goal of our toddler curriculum is to help children develop both their body and their minds in a safe and healthy place. These early, positive interactions with caring adults can give young children the confidence they need to explore their surroundings and take joy in their day-to-day discoveries.

Examples of their day-to-day activities can be found in the weekly sample schedule included below.

Infant Curriculum

Our daily infant curriculum is broken up into four categories of development:

  • Physical Experience
  • Listening and Talking Experience
  • Creative Experience
  • Learning From the World
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Physical Experience
To assure our infants reach their appropriate physical development milestones, we employ our Physical Experiences curriculum. Physical Experiences utilizes motor activities that focus on both large and small muscle development.
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Listening and Talking Experience
Before the age of one, infants are learning to understand the things that we are saying. For this reason, we provide a Listening and Talking Experience, which includes reading books, singing songs, and talking about the surroundings to aid in their communication development.
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Creative Experience
Creative Experience allows infants to explore the many beauties that arts and crafts expose our minds to. The process of ‘art with infants’ enables our children to explore and experiment with different smells, textures, and artistic tools as a means of facilitating an early understanding of creative thought and design.
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Learning From the World
Learning from the World introduces the infant to the world around us, allowing us to aid in their sensory development within a free, yet controlled environment. Examples of these activities can be found in the weekly sample schedule included below.