Lesson Category: PreNatal infant

You’ve done well up to now with a weekday schedule that gets you out the door in the morning and back home for evening time with your young children.  You don’t know how long you will need to work from home and provide full-time care for your young children.  

Participants will be able to:

• Plan and try out new routines that balance priorities while you seek a sustainable new rhythm.
• Develop co-parenting strategies to work well in a simple daily schedule of care and activity. 

Brain research tells us that how we behave as parents during the first 5 years of life will strongly influence outcomes for our children. In this class, you will learn how to support your babies and toddlers throughout the day with positive routines. 

• Learn about the inborn drives that support young children to learn family routines
• Recognize clear answers to the questions, What’s my job as a parent?  How do I create routines that work?
• Apply simple, practical strategies to increase cooperation and strengthen your positive connection with your child

Learn how to survive these important years while strengthening your parent-child relationship and your child’s self-worth and well-being.

We are built to reflect each other's emotions. When children display intense feelings and behaviors, our brains naturally reflect those. We start to feel stressed, angry, or overwhelmed just like our kids. Join us and learn practical tools to help you be a calm center for your family. 

Young children thrive in calm and playful families. Play is the best way to help your child learn and grow. It strengthens the parent-child connection, your child’s love of learning, and enthusiasm for life. Play builds social skills and improves cooperation.  We’ll offer a hands-on opportunity to play with your children at this class, including individual coaching and discussion with our trainers.

After this class, you will be able to: 

• Apply simple calming strategies to use every day and during challenging times
• Recognize the ways play helps your child grow, connect and cooperate
• Apply every day, simple ways of engaging in happy and meaningful play with your child

You may know a bit about your child’s development, especially in infancy when motor milestones are celebrated by everyone.  Learning a bit more about how infant brains develop offers you insights into how to support your baby as they eat, sleep, play, and learn.

Many parents worry that being separated from their baby during the day will harm their relationship. This flash class will share research about childcare attachment, and how you can optimize you and your baby’s daily interactions and routines to promote a secure attachment.

Children grow and develop in many different ways. Parents who understand their child’s temperament and developmental stage have an easier time and more effectively support positive outcomes. 

Your older child was so excited about the new baby. But now that your baby has arrived, he is uncooperative and sometimes acts like a baby, himself. Meanwhile, you're trying to control your youngest as she starts to throw tantrums and learns the word "no." 

This scenario is all too common, but there are simple tools you can use to increase your children's compliance and decrease your stress. 

New babies are driven to eat, play, and sleep throughout the day – it’s how they grow.  Sounds simple but balancing your work with new baby’s needs can be challenging, especially when you are working from home.  During your leave you adapted to your new baby’s needs and now feel a special bond that you don’t want to compromise as you return to work.  Consider important ways that you can create balance and not give up your special relationship to your new baby

Many parents worry that going back to work will be hard on their new baby or even harm their connection. Explore the latest information from experts about how to make the most of your time with your baby to connect and help them feel close and safe.

Children grow and develop in many different ways. Parents who understand their child’s temperament and developmental stage have an easier time and more effectively support positive outcomes.