Course Tag: balance

Raising healthy children with a strong moral compass, cooperative behavior, and an ability to sustain meaningful relationships can be a challenge even in ideal situations. Add on a variety of extracurricular activities, sibling relationships, technology issues, your work and social commitments, and a biological need for food and rest, and you’ve got your work cut out for you. Learn a practical approach, based on research, to parenting kids with character that will help you be the parent you want to be while riding the waves of the daily the grind. This interactive presentation will include strategies to: 

• Talk with your child 
• Nurture your child’s authentic self 
• Keep perspective as you embrace your daily parenting challenges

• Are you planning to return to work, or are you already back?
• Concerned that hours away from baby will harm your attachment?
• Feeling a bit confused or overwhelmed with how to choose a caregiver for baby?

The transition back to work from Family Leave is often challenging. Being involved with the baby’s total care can be immensely rewarding as well as exhausting, and relinquishing some of that care to others is often anxiety-provoking.  Join Peace At Home experts JoAnn Robinson, PhD and Cora Megan, MA and with other parents to get answers and solutions on the spot. What are baby’s needs and what are your needs as you transition back to work? Participants in this session will be able to:

• Identify your values for what your baby experiences while you work
• Compare benefits of different types of care
• Learn how to choose what feels right for you
• Create routines that work for you and your baby

• Are you planning to return to work, or are you already back?
• Concerned that hours away from baby will harm your attachment?
• Feeling a bit confused or overwhelmed with so many life changes?

The transition back to work from Family Leave is often challenging. Being involved with the baby’s total care can be immensely rewarding as well as exhausting, and relinquishing some of that care to others is often anxiety-provoking.  Join Peace At Home experts Autumn Cloud-Ingram, LMSW and Hanna Brinkhaus, LCSW and with other parents to get answers and solutions on the spot. What are baby’s needs and what are your needs as you transition back to work? Participants in this session will be able to:

• Recognize who can provide helpful help
• Create routines that work for you and your baby
• Apply strategies that help with sleep and feeding
• Consider your own emotions, moods and possible red flags

This month Nurse Practitioner Denise Webb, APRN, PNP will join JoAnn Robinson, PhD at your CVS Health Welcome Baby, Back to Work Conversation at 1 PM on August 26^th.  JoAnn and Denise want to hear from parents about their experiences, answer questions, and invite folks to share successes in addressing the challenge of Returning to Work:  Breast and Bottle Feeding and any other topics that are on your mind.  At this session, Denise and JoAnn will share ideas about

• Feeding baby is a relationship-building activity 
• Bottle feeding is an important solution for returning to work 
• Heading back to the office and sustaining breastfeeding