Healthy Meals and Nutrition
Each day, we provide our children with a healthy and nutritious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack.
We work carefully with all parents to address any food allergies and preferences. All children are offered whole milk up to two years old and 1% milk from 2 years old through preschool. Water is offered to children throughout the course of the day.
We participate in North Carolina's Child and Adult Care Food Program, funded by the USDA. Our lunch is catered by Child Care Services Association (CCSA) Meal Service Program- Spoonful. Breakfast and Afternoon Snacks are prepared fresh each day, by our in house Chef.
Breastfeed and Formula
We welcome families to drop-in and breastfeed at anytime or provide breast milk for teachers to feed to the children. There is a comfortable lactation room if families require more privacy. We provide (at no additional charge), Enfamil formula, baby food, meals, and snacks. Parents are welcome to provide their own preferred infant formula and/or food.
FPDS is Proud to Announce we have been awarded through Breastfeed Durham - The Welcome Here Award along with the Local Breast-feeding Child Care Designation Award.
We have also been awarded the highest breastfeeding award in the state - North Carolina Breast-feeding Child Care Designation Award from the NC Division of Child Development and Early Education.
Diapering and Quiet Times
We are happy to handle both disposable and cloth diapering. All children are asked to bring in an extra change of clothes to leave in their assigned cubby/napsack. When a child and family show signs of potty training readiness, we will work with families and children individually to transition to potty training. All children must be potty trained by 3 years old, in order to move to the 3 year old classroom.
It is the policy of FPDS that infants eat and sleep on demand. Infants have an assigned crib with sheets. Families may choose to provide infant sleep sacks (with arms out) for the crib. The toddlers thru preschoolers daily schedule includes a quiet rest time, during which most children nap or have a quiet activity on their cots. Each child is assigned a cot, parents provide a sheet and blanket from home. All children sheets are washed daily.