Point Loma Nazarene University’s Early Childhood Learning Center is a campus laboratory school under the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. It has the unique opportunity of serving the community by meeting the needs of children and their parents. At the same time the Center serves as the location for observations and demonstrations of teaching methods and other experience for students preparing for careers in work with children. The Early Childhood Learning Center is a laboratory in human relationships where children, parents, students and teachers interact, play, work and learn together.