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Parenting Connection: Our Family, Our Values, Our Screens

Parenting Connection: Building Stronger Families Through Play and Literacy

Join Parenting Now for a fun, supportive parenting group where you can learn simple ways to build a stronger connection with your child. Each session focuses on a different parenting topic and offers practical ideas you can use at home through play, reading, and everyday moments.

Oct. 3rd: Our Family, Our Values, Our Screens

Screens are part of everyday family life. Learn how your family’s values can help guide choices about screen time. You’ll explore simple ways to set healthy limits, create routines, and balance screen time with play, reading, and time together.

Choose what works for your family! You can register for one session or all six. Each session covers a different parenting topic and gives you a chance to learn, connect with other parents, and have fun with your child. Child care is provided.

Proactive Postpartum

Connect with other pregnant and postpartum parents and learn ways to care for yourself during this time. Each session covers a different part of life after having a baby, including your own needs, bonding with your baby, and making space for rest and healing.

You’ll talk about changes after birth, ways to connect with your baby, how to ask for what you need, and ways to make time for rest and recovery.

Participants will receive a book. Those who complete all three sessions will receive an infant carrier.

Parenting Connection: Talk It Up: Connecting Through Feelings

Parenting Connection: Building Stronger Families Through Play and Literacy

Join Parenting Now for a fun, supportive parenting group where you can learn simple ways to build a stronger connection with your child. Each session focuses on a different parenting topic and offers practical ideas you can use at home through play, reading, and everyday moments.

Sept. 26: Talk It Up: Connecting Through Feelings

Children have big feelings every day. Learn simple ways to help your child understand and manage those feelings while building a stronger bond. You’ll learn how to talk about feelings, help your child feel heard, and use simple strategies during everyday moments and play.

You can join one session or all six. Each session offers a chance to learn, connect with other parents, and have fun with your child. Child care is provided.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series for parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Childcare, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series offered in Spanish for Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Child care, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series for parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Child care, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series for parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Child care, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series offered in Spanish for Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Child care, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Make Parenting a Pleasure

Take part in this supportive series offered in Spanish for Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through early elementary age.

Over 8 to 12 weeks, you’ll learn practical strategies for managing stress and strong emotions, understanding child development, communicating effectively, and using positive discipline.

The program also focuses on self-care, building confidence, and creating a nurturing home environment where you and your child can thrive.

You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and caregivers, share experiences, and build a network of support. Child care, meals, transportation, and other resources may be available to help families participate.

Circle of Security

Build a stronger relationship with your child in this parenting class for parents and caregivers of children from birth through early childhood.

You’ll learn to understand your child’s emotional needs, recognize behavior cues, and respond in ways that build trust, confidence, and emotional security.

The class offers practical strategies for managing challenging behaviors, building healthy attachment, and strengthening parent-child relationships.

You’ll have opportunities to share experiences, practice new skills, and receive guidance from trained facilitators. Child care, meals, and transportation may be available to help families participate.