Meet Daniel Garcia: The Children’s Center’s resident musician, storyteller and ‘pied piper’

Meet Daniel Garcia: The Children’s Center’s resident musician, storyteller and ‘pied piper’

Daniel Garcia started as a caregiver at the Children’s Center of the Stanford Community (CCSC) — a parent cooperative offering early childhood learning programs — in 1970, when he dropped out of Stanford as a sophomore. Over 50 years since, and now as a support teacher and self-described musician, court jester, storyteller and fun uncle for the center, Garcia says he has known 1,000 two-year-olds in his lifetime. “Believe it or not, some of the …