Where Every Child

Is A Star

Encourage Your Child To Reach Their Full Potential
Where Every Child

Is a star

Encourage Your Child To Reach
Their Full Potential

Preschool & Child Care Center Serving Shalimar, FL

“My passion and purpose is around children.”

From her first babysitting job at age 10, owner, Rita Chandler, fell in love with children. Later, as a youth director in her teens, she always catered community events to the young children of her church. From this early age, Rita discovered, “My passion and purpose is around children.”
Fast forward to the future, Rita decided to pursue her passion and purchase a daycare in her hometown. Within 2 weeks, the center became filled with children and families.
Carrying on with immense success, Rita opened 5 total locations during the pandemic. Alongside her family-owned team, including her daughter, daughter-in-law, best friend, and sister, your child walks into a place that truly feels like home. Rita and her team continually work to ensure your child feels inspired, hopeful, empowered, and part of something bigger than themselves each time they step into their classroom.
Rita Chandler
Owner / CEO / Founder

Our Mission Is To Provide Quality Nurturing & Affordable Care For Every Child With Creativity & Academics

A Supportive Community That Helps Children Be Their Best

When it comes to your child’s care, they feel part of an extended family. Rita and her loving team offer a scholarship program to support families in the community to ensure your child receives the care and education they deserve.

Their Bright Future Starts With An Exceptional Curriculum

Your child lays a powerful academic foundation of reading, writing, social, and learning skills with the Mother Goose Time© curriculum. Science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) activities build real-world skills, preparing them for their bright future.

Take A Peek At The Mother Goose Time© Curriculum!

Mother Goose Time© blends over 30 science-based skills into enjoyable, hands-on activities that help your child master the following areas:

They learn communication, cooperation, and listening, so they build stronger relationships and enjoy greater academic success in their future schooling.
Play-based activities increase strength, muscle control, and coordination, giving them the confidence to excel in future dance, sports, and more.
Literacy-rich lessons encourage your child to join in on storytelling, journaling, and drawing, helping them gain the reading and writing skills for their next steps.

With exciting and fun math activities, they accelerate their brain development while learning to count, order, recognize patterns, and think critically.

Your child learns to explore different cultures, their diversity, and similarities. They gain new respect for everyone while becoming part of a welcoming community.

Children gain a passion for knowledge with science experiments that spark their curiosity. Watch them carry their inquisitive nature into every area of school — helping them excel above and beyond.
Diving into creative, hands-on projects, your little one expresses themselves in a safe way, taps into their creative side, and builds a lifetime of confidence.

Core Values

Trust

Mutual trust creates strong links to happiness, confidence, and growth

Health

Healthy lifestyle leads to stronger communities

Education

Education starts the day you are born... Never stop learning

Safety

We never compromise safety

Nurture

Nurturing environment early in life creates confidence forever

Citizenship

Children are the future ambassadors of our world. We teach them to appreciate everyone and everything!

Creativity

Imagination enables innovation

How Old Is Your Child?

Infants

6 weeks - 12 months

Toddlers

12 months to 24 months

Preschool

24-36 months

Pre-K

36-48 months

Kindergarten

60 months

Summer Program

5-12 years olds

Before & Afterschool

5-12 years olds

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