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Dear Friends: We are launching a fundraising campaign to help us expand our nurturing programs. Please join us as we build a community that nurtures and pro...

The passionate child advocate Magda Gerber often summed up her approach to working with infants as 'respect' or more specifically as 'respect in action.' I...

Watch how baby Liv follows her body's own innate wisdom to explore the environment and discover all the wonderful ways she can move. In our RIE-inspired Inf...

Have you heard of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory? I hadn’t either. The California Board of Education is a founding member. The Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (...

It always warms my heart to discover programs that support the development of independence in young children. Every time a child learns to do something on h...

1. Do you see me? 2. Do you care that I am here? 3. Am I enough for you? 4. Can I tell that I am special to you by the way that you look at me? Maya Angelou,...

During the first seven years of life, young children feel at one with everything and naturally respond with empathy. They engage with the world from a ‘righ...

One of our goals at Sea Star Village is to bring together different generations in a conversation about what makes for a healthy childhood. We want to gathe...

I have been thinking a lot about our high school students this past week. In fact, after learning - while setting up to screen the film Race to Nowhere - th...

Moms, dads, grandmas and babies come to Sea Star Village to enjoy 2 hours of peace and relaxation each Thursday morning. A quiet calm fills the room as we lo...

To inspire you this holiday season, I'd like to introduce you to an interesting study on gift-giving from Cornell University. Although many of you probably...

Sea Star Village hosted the beautiful seasonal ritual of Winter Spiral this past Saturday.   We are grateful to those who helped prepare the spiral and to al...