 Al
Jr. loves playing with action figures, reading books,
and most of all, Spiderman. He seemed a normal kid in
every respect, until parents Al and Jeri enrolled him
in daycare. There, he threw tantrums, had trouble getting
along with other kids, and said he hated his teachers. “He
really had a rough time, he wasn’t himself,” his
father remembers. “They told us he needed to take
anger management classes. I’d never heard of such
a thing for a 2-year-old kid!”
Thinking a change might help, the
family switched daycare providers and enrolled Al Jr.
at The Salvation Army’s
Cab Horse Commons Day Care Center. His parents waited
for the problem to start again—but it didn’t.
The Salvation Army’s structured, nurturing environment
was the opposite of the strict discipline Al Jr. had
experienced at his first daycare center. Al Jr. responded
quickly to the one-on-one attention and kindness he received.
He learned by example how to act toward other children
in the classroom. “It’s been such a positive
change—he’s happy and it shows. ” says
Jeri, watching as Al Jr. hugs his teachers. “We
both work during the day, and it puts me at ease knowing
he’s with people who really care about him and
are helping him grow in all these important ways.”
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