24 secrets of daycare teachers—steal their tricks!

Donna Freeman, director of Discovery Children’s Centre in Winnipeg, uses charts and illustrations to help her daycare kids visualize their daily routines, and parents can do the same at home. She uses an online program called Boardmaker to create charts with images of daily activities (play, eat, use the bathroom, sleep). Parents, she says, can personalize their charts further by using snapshots of their kids doing these activities.