Deborah Thurber
Owner/ Center Director
I believe and instill in my staff, that each child is a unique and special individual. We are passionate about concentrating on our relationship with each child and strive to make meaningful connections by engaging, reassuring, challenging, and inspiring through encouragement, listening, and gifting each child ‘time’ to gain resilience.
I/Deborah Thurber have a Child’s Developmental Associates Degree (CDA) that has given me an understanding of how children develop socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. My staff and I as caregivers, gain our education through childcare classes with modern, qualified, educated, expert persons; historical research; reading; accessing knowledgeable networks and resources; studying Developmentally Appreciate Practice (DAP) and resources from Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE®). Our goal is to provide high-quality childcare by creating an environment that provides the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of each child, as well as responding to the needs of your family. I believe and practice that childhood is a worthy and important stage that deserves as much respect as adulthood and should not be rushed through and that every child deserves opportunities to learn.
I am also the President of the Eastern Washington Family Child Care Association (EWFCCA) since 2007, where I personally support and mentor other childcare providers all over Washington State. I am responsible for creating several educational events throughout the year so childcare providers can gain additional knowledge and education.
I take pride in the ability to provide care for children that is based on the understanding of each child’s interests, life experiences, strengths, and personal needs. All Children of the World is qualified as an “ECO-Healthy” childcare by the Children’s Environmental Health Network®. As an ECO-Healthy Provider, I commit to reducing children’s exposure to toxins and other environmental health hazards. The endorsement certification is posted to let parents and others know of my efforts and demonstrates my commitment to being ECO-Healthy.
I have been a licensed childcare provider in good standing in Washington State since January of 1989 and would consider it a blessing to have your child(ren) in my care.
All persons responsible for the care of the children in my home
- Are focused on building emotionally secure relationships with every child;
- Currently are at least 18 years or older;
- Have cleared a criminal background check;
- Has a current CPR cards (which includes infant, child, and adult) and a basic standard first aid training – renewed every 2 years)
- Have completed annual blood-borne pathogens classes.
- Gets at least 10 hours of continued education annually; Which includes all state’s mandatory training requirement classes.
- Have completed the required, annual infant safe sleep training;
- Demonstrate positive interaction with the children and other adults;
- Interact with children by listening and responding to what the children have to say.
- Are in frequent, verbal communication with the children in a positive, reinforcing, cheerful and soothing way; we explain actions, even to very young infants;
- Treats each child with consideration and respect and appropriately holds, touches, and smiles at the children and speaks to the children at their eye level when possible and appropriate and is responsive to children, and encourages them to share experiences, ideas, and feelings;
- Are physically able to respond to and investigate cries and other signs of distress;
- Perform developmentally appropriate nurturing activities that take into consideration the parent’s nurturing practices;
- Are reliable and dependable; truthful and have a disposition that is respectful of your child(ren)s need for caring attention.
All children of the world is a Washington State licensed family home childcare. I/Deborah Thurber am the primary childcare provider. I have a qualified, full-time assistant that works Monday through Friday at the hours that I need Assistance. I am licensed for up to 12 children, with no more than 6 children under the age of 2 years with 2 walking, and the remaining children are over two years when I have a qualified assistant. We fulfill the strict state regulation on staffing requirements and ratios at all times during all operating hours. If for some reason, I or my assistant needs to leave the premises during daycare hours, (i.e. scheduled appointment or illness), I have qualified backup assistants. If I, personally, experience a medical emergency, or an illness that causes me not to be able to care for the children and adequate staffing can not be obtained, I will close. It is your responsibility to have backup care. I will try and give you as much notice as possible in the event of a closure.
To enroll your child at Imagine Me Kids Academy your child must be between ages of 6weeks and 12 years old.
Core Values
Throughout the day, We observe and react to create engaging play-based activities indoors & outdoors that promote a child;
- Self help/ Independence
- Positive self concepts (self esteem)
- Emotional self awareness
- large &small motor skills
- Listening and language skills
- Thinking Skills
- Printing Skills
- Social Skills
- Problem Solving
- Self Discipline
- Spatial Concepts
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning Of 'Life skills'
- Relate To Others And Show Emphaty
- Become Responsible For Their Decision and Actionss
- We Attempt To Respect Each Child's Daily Life, Family Culture, Language, and the Diversity in Society
- I Wish For Them To Experiment
- Explore
- Take Risks
- Make Mistakes
- Apply A Trial And Error
- Approach To Learning
- Be Creative Through Process Art And Music
To give every child, nurturing love, concern, safety, security, and nutritional meals in a stimulating & educational play-based childcare with respectful, observant, responsive, tender caregivers.
To provide stimulating play-based learning childcare that promotes each child’s social/emotional health, physical & cognitive development as well as mastering self-help and life skills.
Every child deserves to be loved for just being; be respected; be safe and secure; have the freedom of choice; be able to develop themselves at their own rate; be gifted time, and be fed nutritiously.
To give every child, nurturing love, concern, safety, security, and nutritional meals in a stimulating & educational play-based childcare with respectful, observant, responsive, tender caregivers.
To provide stimulating play-based learning childcare that promotes each child’s social/emotional health, physical & cognitive development as well as mastering self-help and life skills.
Every child deserves to be loved for just being; be respected; be safe and secure; have the freedom of choice; be able to develop themselves at their own rate; be gifted time, and be fed nutritiously.
