Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development

Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development Helping kids become the boss of themselves since 1951. Early learning, mental health, prof. training. Hanna Perkins School evolved from that organization.

Cleveland's earliest nursery school opened in 1880 – one of the first in the country. Out of that school, the Day Nursery Association of Cleveland was founded to provide specialized training needed for teachers of young children. Today, in addition to operating a highly regarded preschool and kindergarten in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Hanna Perkins is a leading resource for parenting information. Its Hadden Clinic for Children and Families provides a broad range of development guidance for children and adolescents. Its Parent Resource Center and parent/toddler groups offer parents the chance to understand the inner emotional lives of their children. And Hanna Perkins still provides continuing education to teachers, day care workers and other child development specialists.

The 1st building block of empathy is a sense of self. Here's a clip from the Hidden Language of Children podcast episod...
03/13/2026

The 1st building block of empathy is a sense of self. Here's a clip from the Hidden Language of Children podcast episode "How Children Develop Empathy." On Youtube and your favorite podcast streaming platform.

A basic foundation of empathy is when a very young child begins to recognize a sense of "self" and "other". From the episode No. 19 of the Hidden Language of...

What the building blocks of empathy have to do with bullying... A clip from the Hidden Language of Children podcast epis...
03/12/2026

What the building blocks of empathy have to do with bullying... A clip from the Hidden Language of Children podcast episode 19 - How children develop empathy.

Validating a child's feelings is a building block of empathy. When children's feelings aren't acknowledged or respected, that's a building block of bullying....

Here's another clip from the latest Hidden Language of Children podcast episode: How children develop empathy. You can f...
03/12/2026

Here's another clip from the latest Hidden Language of Children podcast episode: How children develop empathy. You can find the full episode on Youtube and your favorite podcast streaming platform.

Thoughts for parents from the most recent Hidden Language of Children podcast episode on how empathy develops.

How do children develop empathy? The newest Hidden Language of Children podcast episode is dedicated to that question. Y...
03/11/2026

How do children develop empathy? The newest Hidden Language of Children podcast episode is dedicated to that question. You can view it on Youtube and listen to it wherever you stream your podcasts.

By age 6, children typically display empathy toward others. But it doesn't just happen. This episode looks at the building blocks of empathy and how parents ...

See the feature article about Hanna Perkins Center in the latest issue of Shaker LIfe magazine. It describes our work an...
03/09/2026

See the feature article about Hanna Perkins Center in the latest issue of Shaker LIfe magazine. It describes our work and outlines the new programs we're introducing to fill important service gaps for the emotional health of Northeast Ohio's children and families.

Helping children and parents navigate the complexities of early childhood has been the focus of Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development, a unique resource in the heart of Shaker. Now this focus broadens to programs that train the professionals who support children during challenging growth moment...

For every new skill your children learn, you'll go through 4 stages as a parent.
03/06/2026

For every new skill your children learn, you'll go through 4 stages as a parent.

How do you do timeouts? They can be punishments or lead-ins for teachable moments that bring you and your child closer t...
03/05/2026

How do you do timeouts? They can be punishments or lead-ins for teachable moments that bring you and your child closer together.

This video takes less than a minute to show parents the difference between a timeout that works and one that doesn't.

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19910 Malvern Road
Shaker Heights, OH
44122

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+12169914472

Website

https://linktr.ee/hanna_perkins_center

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