When it was time for Joanne Lehman to go back to work, her youngest child was only three.

Sylvia Bastone proudly opened New Beginnings of Kings Park this year, after teaching preschool for fifteen years, and serving as a preschool director for four. New Beginnings is a daycare and preschool center that cares for infants as young as six weeks old to children of school age, in addition to providing before- and after-care for school age children up to age twelve.