Support for parents in crisis — There are also crisis people, chicken soup people, people who show up when they know that you’re tired and you’re weary and they take your kids and they bring the soup.

Adaptable open-ended toys — the difference between tools and toys

Empowered parent meetings — We have an orientation for our parents. It lasts for five hours. If you don’t come you don’t get in.

Parents need a village of support — You can’t be everything to everybody. It takes a village.

Re-seeding – giving back — Giving back

Power with not over children — Power over children means that you’ve got a set of rules and if they get broken then you do something to punish the child instead of assisting the child through this.