Chicago Child Care Programs

The Children's House Lake Meadows, Chicago:
The Children's House Lake Meadows provides distinct and proven Early Education Experience Programs for children of 6 weeks through 12 years of age. The Children's House is privately owned, and currently operates 4 facilities in the State of Illinois, in Chicago City, Park Forest and Markham. We are fully licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. We employ only qualified teachers and teachers aides, and keep our class sizes small to provide your child with a comfortable environment that is conductive to learning. Our endeavor is to provide parents, regardless of their hours of work or school schedule, with quality care for their children. Because of our desire to accommodate the many schedules incurred in the 21st century, The Children's House is open 130 hours a week versus the normal 60 hours at most child care centers.

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The Children's House believes that children learn from personal interaction, hands on experiences with real objects and the application of logical thinking to their experiences.

At The Children's House we strive to offer the highest quality programs. The Children's House provides a nurturing, stimulating environment in which your child is encouraged to learn through play.

At the Children's House our educational goals ensure that children learn in an atmosphere where growth, exploration, and discovery are possible.

Our curriculum, the TCH Early Education Experience, is developmentally appropriate and teacher initiated. It is a distinct and proven experience for children 6 weeks through 12 years of age. The curriculum allows for children's individuality, independence and decision making skills to be enhanced.

The TCH Early Education Experience is inclusive of Monthly Themes as well as corresponding weekly units. Additionally, the children will learn of various cultures and customs throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Our children are very busy through out the day. They participate in planning time, activity time, circle time, small-group time, outside time, clean-up time, & reflective time each day.

We are fully licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Infants Program; Toddler Program; Kindergarten Program; Afterschool Program; Early Education Experience Programs for children of 6 weeks through 12 years of age. Summer Programs also available.

Our staff is trained to accept your child's curiosity as his or her own greatest resource for learning. In addition, our philosophy provides for the recognition of inappropriate behavior and the ability for all students to "self-correct" as opposed to the traditional time-out or redirection process.

It is our goal to offer an exceptionally well rounded educational program that provides your child with opportunities to achieve socially, intellectually, physically, psychologically, as well as emotionally.

While we can never replace parents/guardians, it is our philosophy to provide an environment that is exemplary of "The Children's House Away From Home."