My 1st Time Childcare Center exists to provide a safe, warm and nurturing developmentally appropriate environment for infant and preschool age children. Our focus is to provide stimulating early care and creative education experiences to promote each child's development. Our goal is to support children's desire to be life-long achievers. By doing so, we at My 1st Time believe that children should learn by exploring the many celebrations of life and the changes they bring. Achieving the goal of individual growth in early learners is one that takes time, patience and understanding and is also one that never ends. In guiding us to do so we offer a supportive learning environment that is created through the interaction of the indoor and outdoor physical environment, instructional materials, furnishings, interpersonal relationships (adults with children, adults with adults and children with children) and daily routines. It is within this environment that a child’s optimal development takes place. Each child’s development in the four domains – Social, Emotional, Cognitive and Physical – is being supported, sustained, extended and enhanced primarily through activities which promote purposeful play.