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Reciting the pledge of allegiance is almost a thing of the past. I remember saying it every day in elementary school followed by The Lord's Prayer. Yeah, that won't happen today but at Little People's Academy we think it's important to teach our children to be proud patriots. We are even brave enough to keep "under God" in it. We observe all the national holidays and help the kids understand how blessed they are to live in a free country. And we're not ashamed of it.

3 Important Questions

The three most important questions to ask yourself every day: Have you loved fully? Have you lived fully? Have you made a difference? A powerful blog post on the subject: tinybuddha.com/blog/3-important-questions-ask-yourself-every-day

Free Haircuts!

Yesterday was our first FREE haircut day and it was a huge success! A great big thank you to Kami Lynes from Salon 1920 for sharing her talents and making our kiddos adorable. We will do it again next month so watch for our post for time and date.

Teaching Your Kids the Value of Money

Schools may well teach your children how to add and subtract, but learning the value of money is one lesson that has to come from home. Unless you teach them otherwise, they will continue to think that money grows on trees and that banks just give away cash – until they have to make their own way in the world. While financially indulging your children might feel like kindness at the time, you could be doing them a grave disservice by not teaching them valuable lessons for life. Here are a few ideas on how to teach youngsters the value of money. Children are not born understanding how paid employment and banks work. Explain these things to them simply as soon as they are old enough to understand. Help your children to distinguish between needs and wants. Teach your children the principles of spending and saving money as well as those of making money grow. As soon as they are old enough, give them an allowance of their own to permit them to put principles into practice and learn from their own mistakes. Open an interest-bearing account for your children so that they can watch their money grow. Put aside an allowance for essentials such as clothes to help teach your children how to budget and save for more expensive items. Explain how credit cards and loans work; otherwise your children could grow up thinking that these are “free” money.

We attended our annual training for the Federal Food program and were presented with this Gold Standard Award for going above and beyond what is required in the program. I need to give a big thank you to our cook Tina and our great employees for the job they do. Thanks everyone!

Kid Quotes

One of the sweet little 3 yr old boys was talking to his teacher about the girl in their class who was the VIP. He kept saying she was the "black eye pea" and we couldn't figure out what he meant until we said "VIP" "black I P". He was saying black instead of the V. I was beginning to wonder if he thought she looked like Fergie!

Picture Day

Bell Photography will be taking individual and class pictures on October 12th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. There will be a flyer going home explaining package prices soon.