Little Learner Children's Academy - Holdrege, NE

06/05/2026

Come join the LLCA family!

05/23/2026

05/21/2026

Shout-out to our very own Téa Kroese for making the Dean's List again! 🎉

Smart Cookies 🍪

Congratulations to all of the Lopers who made the Spring Semester Dean’s List!

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: https://unknews.unk.edu/2026/05/20/unk-announces-deans-list-for-2026-spring-semester/

05/14/2026

Oh man, I think we all needed this caffeine to get us through the week. Thanks so much Paige Rademaker!

05/06/2026

We are so thankful for our amazing parents that have gone out of their way to show gratitude to our staff for Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you so much! ❤️ The caffeine will definitely help 😁

04/28/2026

A Stanford study tracked thousands of children across Denmark and found that delaying kindergarten entry by one year reduced hyperactivity and inattention by 73% at age 11. The children weren't medicated. They weren't put through behavioral programs. They were simply given more time to be children first.

The finding challenges everything modern parenting culture pushes. Earlier is not always better. A five-year-old brain forced into structured academic learning before it's ready doesn't perform better. It struggles. It fidgets. It gets labeled. What looks like a behavioral problem is often just a developmental timing issue.

Researchers believe the extra year allows the brain's self-regulation systems to mature naturally. Prefrontal cortex development, the part responsible for focus and impulse control, needs time. Rushing that process doesn't accelerate it. It disrupts it.

73% reduction. No prescription required. Just one more year of being a child.

04/28/2026

Stepping in feels right. Watching your child struggle feels wrong. But research in child psychology consistently shows that discomfort handled with support is exactly how mental strength gets built.

When parents remove every obstacle, the brain never learns to regulate frustration, tolerate failure or push through difficulty independently. The child grows up capable in comfort and fragile everywhere else.

Resilient kids are not raised without struggle. They are raised by parents who stayed calm beside them while they struggled.

The goal was never a painless childhood. It was a child who knows they can handle pain.

Let them feel it. Stay close. That is the whole formula.

04/18/2026

🌟 Week of the Young Child 🌟

We reached out to local childcare centers with a few fun questions to share with our community—and it’s been so much fun seeing their unique responses! 💙

Join us in celebrating by thanking our incredible childcare providers and supporting the amazing kids in our community!

Little Learner Children's Academy - Holdrege, NE

12/19/2025

Thank you so much to everyone that participated in the Adopt-A-Child Care Center event via Holdrege Area Early Childhood Partnership, Inc. We received several items from our Amazon wishlist and are so excited to incorporate these into our classrooms!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3283IXW531LMT?ref_=wl_share

08/26/2025