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Remembering Ginny Steininger

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The Hanna Perkins family is mourning the loss of Virginia Steininger, who died in her home on Aug. 24. She was 89.

Steininger taught kindergarten, and was a teacher and director at Solon Cooperative Preschool before becoming the director of the child-care program at the Cuyahoga Valley Vocational School. There she taught courses in child development and helped establish the first public preschool in Ohio for children with difficulties. She then came to Hanna Perkins, where she served for 16 years ...

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The San Bernardino shooting: What your children need right now

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Another horrific event has occurred, and it will dominate the news and social media for days and weeks.

Except for the very youngest children, you won’t likely succeed in sheltering them from it. They will seek to understand what they see and hear, trying to put it into the context of what they know about the normal and expected.

The amount of information children need from parents in such situations differs depending on the child and, of course, his or her age. Here ...

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A little housekeeping in the Drop-In room

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We’ve been doing some housekeeping in the Reinberger Parent/Child Resource Center; next time you drop in, things may look a little bit different.

If you have small children, you may want to let them know in advance that the furniture has been moved around so they aren’t too surprised. They’ll recognize all the same furniture, toys and activity stations, but with a fresh new layout. The goal is to make the room a little more enjoyable to use and a little ...

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