Setting Up a Self Care Station For Your Toddler

Setting Up a Self Care Station For Your Toddler Toddlers need to feel a sense of empowerment and giving them the freedom to take care of themselves whenever possible is a great way to feed this need. The Montessori style of teaching is centered around giving children...

Something beautiful is all we can say

As we prepare to send another resident on to the next stage of her journey we frequently hear “oh no! What happened! Why is she leaving early?” It’s not a matter of her leaving early. On average most girls stay around 3 months at a maternity home. We just happen to...

Spring Fever

Around this time of year we talk of spring fever. It seems we are all looking forward to winter ending so we walk around slightly chilled in shorts and flip flops as we start to see the ground thaw. Spring flowers are starting to push through. Some of you might have...

The Value of Time

86,400 Seconds Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out...

What’s In A Name?

There’s a story just around every bend of The Sparrow’s Nest. The staff thought you might be interested to learn the meaning of our logo. Our logo was designed by a former teen mom who has gone on to marry the father of her baby, have more children, be...