A Letter to Parents-You’re Doing Great! It occurred to us recently that in this strange 2020 climate there is no one feeling more stress and pressure than parents. Do you send your kids back to school? Do you not? Do you settle on half virtual school, half in person? The

A Guide for Parents Transitioning Children Back to In-Person Care We’ve talked a lot on the blog about the effects of quarantine on children, all the changes we’ve seen in the past few months, and the difficult decisions parents have had to face. However, as we start to resume somewhat

Quarantine and Children What We’ve Seen and Where We Go From Here 2020 has been a challenging year. It’s a simple way to put it, but it really does encompass the broad range of obstacles and changes that we have all experienced in our respective lives. As adults, it’s easy

Robert E. Simon Jr. Children’s Center Offering Full-Time Kindergarten​ In light of the new landscape we are facing, area organizations and businesses are finding that the needs of our community members are shifting drastically. With the decisions of several local public-school systems to revert to a primarily, or entirely, virtual

Parent Spotlight Denise Gramsky is a long time Simon Center parent. Learn about her and her family below, as well as why she fell in love with the Simon Center! Denise Gramsky and her family, her husband Nick and their three boys Miles, Bryce, and Rainier, are a longtime Simon

Feeling Safe Returning your Child to Daycare   As we embrace our new normal and start to navigate the vast number of changes we’ve all experienced these past few months, at the forefront of every parents’ mind is making the careful, and understandably difficult, decision about when the right time