By working with our families, our goal is to provide the safety net necessary to support each child’s right to identify and express their feelings and develop the skills to problem solve collaboratively with peers.  To do this effectively, we must be aware of the importance of recognizing behaviors and determining what they mean instead of labeling children with adjectives that judge them rather than support them.  Because we place such importance on this, we offer a variety of parent gatherings to help connect us in a united philosophy of modeling positive interactions with each other.  Through our modeling, the children will learn to care for and respect each other as well as themselves.