Meet Laura Robinson from Helping Hands Day Care

I first met Laura Robinson about ten years ago at an E. 185th Street Merchant Meeting. She is a force to be reckoned with: fun, vivacious, and full of positive energy! Laura owns, and operates Helping Hands Day Care on E. 185th Street. She currently resides, for the last 21 years, in Euclid, has 5 children, 7 grandchildren, and a beloved dog, Corkey. At the day care, she and her staff of six employees, manage about 50 children daily.

Along with a very busy family and work schedule, Laura finds time to volunteer for the E.185th Street Merchant, Professional and Development Association, as Vice President. She, with the help of Northeast Shores Development Association, brought back small events in order to market the street as alive and thriving, in a struggling economy. Breakfast with Santa, Breakfast with the Easter Bunny and Alive on 185! are among her greatest successes.

Her latest project for Laura's Helping Hands Day Care will be getting a mural through the Mural My Neighborhood program. She is excited to see the project depict the businesses on E. 185th through the eyes of a child. She,herself, is constantly walking down E 185th, with a group of children, stopping in to say hello, or for a purchase at Tuthills, Arabica, the Post Office, Family Sport and Buettners Bakery among others.

We all wish Laura continued success.

Here are her 10 questions:

What is your idea of Perfect Happiness?

Peace.

What is your Greatest Achievement?

Teaching four-year-olds how to spell their names. After 30 years into this, it still melts me.

What quality do you most like in a person?

Honesty.

What do you value most in friends?

Reconnection. I have a few really great friends. We do not get together that often, but we just really reconnect and pick up where we left off the last time we got together or talked.

What is your most treasured possession?

My children, best thing I ever did.

What is your biggest extravagance?

Rowing just for myself, I was on a rowing team for 7 years.

Who is your hero in real life?

My kids.

What makes you unique?

I am a survivor, perseverance and patience, and my honesty.

If you could change one thing what would it be?

Other than finances, nothing!

What is your favorite word?

No! No! Never, never! uh-uh!! ( to the children at Helping Hands)

For all those Romper Room fans out there, Laura Robinson is a Good Bee!