Poppy Preschool - A Parent Cooperative

08/31/2026

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT DOS TOMORROW!

Save the date for our first school fundraiser of the year! Skip cooking next Tuesday and meet us at Dos!

08/28/2026

It’s that time of year again! 🎃 Mark your calendars for everyone’s FAVORITE Poppy FUNdraiser! No need to worry about your kids changing their minds when you get gently used costumes at a great price! Come on down to find your costume and fill your dress up bin Sept 26 from 9-11! 👻🍂🍁🦇

08/25/2026

Save the date for our first school fundraiser of the year! Skip cooking next Tuesday and meet us at Dos!

08/11/2026

We have openings in 2 of our classes! Sign up today!

07/28/2026

Looks like a good conversation!

Healthy childhood includes physical mistakes. If a child never falls, bumps into things, trips, bruises, or scrapes their knees, they're missing opportunities their developing brain and body were designed to have.

Now of course we don't want children to get hurt. We don't push them beyond their capabilities or place them in genuinely hazardous situations. But childhood by and large is meant to include physical mistakes—many, many physical mistakes.

Every stumble, missed step, and scraped knee gives the brain valuable information. Children are calibrating balance, coordination, body awareness, force, depth perception, and judgment. They're discovering what their bodies can do and where their limits are. Those experiences strengthen the neural pathways responsible for movement, risk assessment, and motor planning in ways that simply can't be learned through verbal instruction alone.

And yes, sometimes those mistakes are bigger. A child may need stitches. They may sprain a wrist. They may break a bone. We care for them, help them heal, and, when they're ready, support them in returning to play. Children are incredibly resilient. Cuts heal. Bruises fade. Bones mend. Don't let a temporary injury become a permanent reason to keep children from the very experiences that help them grow. If an adult twists an ankle hiking or falls off a bike, we don't decide they'll never hike or ride again. We recover, we learn, and we keep living. Children deserve the same opportunity.

The consequences of eliminating healthy risk aren't only physical. Research consistently shows that when children have fewer opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risky play, they also have fewer opportunities to build confidence in their own abilities, develop accurate risk assessment, and learn that they can recover from manageable challenges. Over time, avoiding uncertainty can teach the nervous system that uncertainty itself is something to fear rather than something that can be explored and mastered, a contributing factor associated with greater anxiety.

The goal isn't to prevent every bump or scrape. It's to provide children with opportunities to test themselves, make manageable mistakes, recover, adapt, and discover just how capable they really are.

Because children don't learn to navigate risk by avoiding it.

They learn to navigate risk by experiencing it.

05/16/2026

SUNDAY! Come out for a fun kid-free event and support Poppy Preschool!!!  It’s time for the parents to PLAY! We’ve got lots of awesome prizes and cash you can win! Beer and wine and nachos available for purchase! Hope to see you there! 🎉 🍷 🍻 🎲

05/11/2026

Calling all Poppy Parents and DCCNS Alumni Parents! Join us THIS SUNDAY May 17 for some FUN with our community!!!!

05/08/2026

Parents!!!! You don’t want to miss this! We are offering a free parent retreat to relax and rejuvenate, including free childcare from our incredible staff! Sign up here!
https://forms.gle/ZCs5pqECEGSaKGur7

05/01/2026

Mark your calendars and please come join us for an afternoon of fun to support Poppy preschool!

04/27/2026

What a wonderful Sunday! We had so much fun at our annual preschool talent show 🎤 carnival 🎡 today! So many amazing acts on the stage 🎭 and so much fun with our community! Thanks to the Seeds class for putting fantastic carnival! 🤩