Young Minds Learning Center

We’re having an awesome teacher retreat! Most of the YMLC crew went out to the wilderness and enjoyed team building time together! We absolutely appreciate our students and their families and love feeling renewed after some time together in nature! No worries at all! ☀️🧑‍🏫😎🙌
Kai is YMLC mascot, ever watchful, a natural caregiver! 🐕❤️

Older toddlers are great helpers, and love learning new tasks and helping with chores!

We really appreciate our summer helpers! These two are an awesome pair to have on hand at YMLC!! They can and will do all the things to help the center function, including meal prep for our hungry kiddos! 🙌❤️

Great minds dress a like! 🥹😊
Me and one of my YMLC friends wore matching Child Care For All MN T-Shirts today! We both know how important early education is for our youngest Minnesotans!! Shine on little buddy!! 🙌❤️

Blood, sweat, and tears! We have so many children come in and out of our lives, we love them all equally and continue to do this heard but meaningful work!

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The work your provider does today, before you walk back through that door:

❤️ Soothed a meltdown without raising a voice
🧡 Noticed when a kid wasn't quite their self
💚 Read the same book three times because someone asked
💙 Memorized which bites your child will eat and which ones get pushed off the plate
💜 Cleaned up things most adults would rather not picture
💛 Stayed steady in moments that would test almost anyone

Provider Appreciation Day is this Friday, May 8️⃣
If your child feels safe, seen, and known, that didn't happen by accident. Someone built that, on purpose, every single day.🥰

My friend Brandy Sroga-Coons so perfectly explains the system of childcare assistance and the standard that providers are held to in the state of Minnesota.

Minnesota childcare providers describe complex paperwork amid fraud crackdown How does fraud happen in Minnesota’s childcare assistance program? That's the question some daycares are asking after the feds raided nine daycares accused of fraud last week.

SAVE THE DATE - The Wild Rose Family Expo is coming to the DECC 🙌

Saturday, May 16 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

What to expect:
- Petting Zoo
- Bounce Houses
- Pony Rides
- Youth programs and extracurricular showcases
- Health and wellness resources
- Educational opportunities
- Community organizations
- Family-focused businesses
- So much more!

It’s a day built for connection, community, and fun for all ages.

More info at https://decc.org/event/wild-rose-family-expo-2026/