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Apr 20, 2026 A small update from Parents’ Nook Hi everyone, I wanted to share a small update from our side. Over the past several months, we Read note → Apr 02, 2026 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Our setups are guided by Piaget’s understanding of child development, and shaped by a blend of RIE and Waldorf-inspired practices. For babies, we draw more from RIE. For toddlers and preschoolers, we lean more toward open-ended play in the spirit of Waldorf education. Read note → Feb 04, 2026 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Parents’ Nook Update -January Reflections & What’s Next Read note → Jan 04, 2026 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Happy New Year, the work we are doing now and what we’re building next Read note → Dec 26, 2025 As We Close the Year — A Thank You from Parents’ Nook As the year comes to a close, we wanted to pause and say thank you. Read note → Dec 15, 2025 2025 in a Lookback "The great scientists are artists as well. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world." Albert Einstein Read note → Nov 10, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play How Nooks Evolve: Each Neighborhood Nook Teaches Us Something New Read note → Oct 11, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Read note → Aug 28, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play For a short period, we’re prioritizing returning families, current partner venues, and referrals. We’re intentionally keeping groups small. If a Nook is near you, we’d love for you to check it out (and bring a friend!). Read note → Aug 06, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play We’re thrilled to announce our newest partnership with Canon Music in Cupertino! Starting August 21st, Parents’ Nook sessions will be hosted every Thursday at this cherished Cupertino Music School. Read note → Jul 08, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Parents’ Nook: A Community-Driven Alternative to Traditional Childcare A New Kind of “Village” — Your Parenting Micro-Community Parents' Nook was born from the idea that childcare can be different — that it can be a true community experience. Read note → Jun 10, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Parents’ Nook: A Community-Driven Alternative to Traditional Childcare A New Kind of “Village” — Your Parenting Micro-Community Parents' Nook was born from the idea that childcare can be different — that it can be a true community experience. Read note → May 15, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Parents’ Nook: A Community-Driven Alternative to Traditional Childcare A New Kind of “Village” — Your Parenting Micro-Community Parents' Nook was born from the idea that childcare can be different — that it can be a true community experience. Read note → Apr 25, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Read note → Mar 18, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play This month, we have lots of exciting updates, enriching activities, and inspiring stories to share with you. Let's celebrate the joy of community, connection, and play as we welcome this beautiful season together. Read note → Feb 12, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play We’re also introducing a dedicated newsletter from Teacher Lin, designed for parents interested in her pedagogy and the microcommunity experience she fosters in her space. If you'd like to follow along and gain insights from her approach, subscribe here: Read note → Jan 27, 2025 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play This is part of our private network initiative. Based on repeated feedback, we’ve learned that parents are looking for more frequent opportunities and would love something more regular. Read note → Dec 16, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Consider children in a sandbox. Hour after hour she spends her day shaping and reshaping hills, carving valleys, building walls, sprinkling grains of sand upon the ground. Read note → Nov 04, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting, and play Read note → Sep 23, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Questions might arise on trust. What is trust? How is it created? Is community and trust interrelated? And what's the role of technology in this? What distributed network have to do with it? Read note → Aug 12, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play We are excited to share this with you all. We will be working with Randall Museum, from this September onwards. More details here : https://parents-nook.ghost.io/nook-randallmuseum/ Read note → Jun 17, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play "Play is joy. When we play, we are fully integrated with ourselves and feel at one with the world. This is the wisdom of childhood. Read note → May 28, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Furthermore, we believe that an arithmetic lesson is not good enough if it does not bring about a few laughs Read note → May 02, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Continuing from last month's newsletter, many of you have asked about what a Nook is, what problem we're trying to solve, and whether our approach is Montessori-inspired. We'll do our best to address these questions in this edition. Read note → Apr 11, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Hello and welcome to the Parents' Nook Newsletter! We are thrilled to have you here. Our main Read note → Mar 01, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Hello and welcome to the Parents' Nook Newsletter! We are thrilled to have you here. Our main Read note → Feb 05, 2024 From our desk: Newsletter exploring community, parenting and play We are excited to let you all know that we will be starting Nooks @OMCA from March 1st onwards. To start with, it would be a weekly offering. Read note → Oct 06, 2023 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Newsletter from Parents' Nook. Our goal is to create care-spaces for Read note → Sep 18, 2023 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Newsletter from Parents' Nook. Our goal is to create care-spaces for Read note → Apr 18, 2023 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Newsletter from Parents' Nook. Our goal is to create care-spaces for Read note → Mar 01, 2023 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Newsletter from Parents' Nook. Our goal is to create care-spaces for Read note → Jan 17, 2023 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play Welcome to the Bi-Monthly Newsletter from Parents' Nook. Our goal is to create care-spaces for Read note → Jul 26, 2022 Newsletter Digest for our newly subscribed members: “There can be no keener revelation of society’s soul than the way in which it treats its Read note → Jul 10, 2022 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play “There can be no keener revelation of society’s soul than the way in which it treats its Read note → May 25, 2022 From our desk: A bimonthly newsletter exploring community, parenting and play. Through Nooks, we are designing an ecosystem where we are creating communal aspects of learning and human development as a dominant social value. We are giving importance to these aspects to actualize the greatest human potential. Read note →