Today's Family Early Learning and Child Care

In our profession, time spent together in play helps shape our practice and strengthens the relationships that create meaningful, high-quality experiences for children in our care.

Across Today’s Family, educators embrace lifelong learning in many ways and in many places, through nature, within our program spaces, alongside educators across the sector, and with one another. This is relational work - learning that connects to our classrooms, more broadly in our communities and into the world.

When we make time for learning, we strengthen our ability to provide what’s best for children and their families.

Join us at an upcoming stop of the Telling Tales EarlyON storytime series at Dundas Driving Park EarlyON on June 25.

Author, Karen Krossing will join families for an engaging read of .

All are welcome. Storytime begins at 10:30 am!

The 2026 Future of Child Care Survey will be wrapping up shortly and we want be sure that your voice guides our way forward.

Every voice matters in this work and helps to inform how we grow and care for children and families in our communities.

To learn more or to participate, visit
🔗 todaysfamily.ca/2026futureofcare

We’ve launched our annual Future of Child Care Survey and we want your voice to guide our way forward.

Every voice matters in this work and helps to inform how we grow and care for children and families in our communities.

To learn more or to participate, visit
🔗 todaysfamily.ca/2026futureofcare

☀️ It’s a new season of play at ! June program schedules are now available on our website.

EarlyON Child and Family Centres are no-cost, welcoming spaces for expectant parents and families with children from birth to age 6. Enjoy drop-in programs that support learning, play, and connection, while caregivers can access helpful resources and connect with early years professionals along their parenting journey.

Visit our website or KeyON to explore programs and visit a Today’s Family EarlyON nearest you.

To learn more, please connect with us!
📧 [email protected]
☎️ (905) 574-9344 ext. 1139
🔗 todaysfamily.ca/earlyon

Educators are not just delivering high-quality programs, they are quality.

Across Haldimand–Norfolk, from Port Dover to Caledonia and the communities in between, educators continue to shape what quality looks like in early learning. In the unique context of rural care, where relationships are community connections are strong, their practice is responsive, intentional, and rooted in place.

Over the past few years, this team has expanded programs, engaged in meaningful professional learning, and created environments where children are truly seen, heard, and valued. Spaces where play is not only supported, but understood, documented, and celebrated as joyful learning in action.

The image of the educator matters in this work. Educators are not only facilitators of experience, but leaders of quality that is visible, felt, and continuously emerging through relationships, reflection, and play.

🌷It’s a new season of play at ! May program schedules are now available on our website.

EarlyON Child and Family Centres are no-cost, welcoming spaces for expectant parents and families with children from birth to age 6. Enjoy drop-in programs that support learning, play, and connection, while caregivers can access helpful resources and connect with early years professionals along their parenting journey.

Visit our website or KeyON to explore programs and visit a Today’s Family EarlyON nearest you.

To learn more, please connect with us!
📧 [email protected]
☎️ (905) 574-9344 ext. 1139
🔗 todaysfamily.ca/earlyon