BANANAS

If you have an infant, we are here to support you! Whether you are going to work, pursuing educational goals, or balancing a variety of responsibilities, we know that finding reliable, nurturing care for your infant is a top priority. Choosing the right child care fit for your baby can be a difficult decision. There are a lot of things to consider, such as the cost, hours, and type of child care that is best for your family. You may have questions about the differences between a family child care, a center, an in-home caregiver, a nanny share, or other available options. With so many types of care to choose from, many parents aren’t even sure where to start. At Choosing Infant Care, we’ll discuss each type of care so you can connect with the right provider who fits your individual needs.

Facilitator Judy Kriege brings years of experience in early education and child care referral counseling and is able to provide information and answer your questions or speak to your concerns. This is a great opportunity to meet other new and expectant parents and learn all there is to know about choosing infant care. Babies are welcome to attend!

If you’re thinking of hiring a nanny, then this is the workshop for you! At this event, Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network will talk about the legal details of being an employer, including your rights and responsibilities. By offering a variety of resources such as tips for establishing wages, how to ensure a fair and safe workplace, and best practices for evaluating employee-employer arrangements, the network will set you up with all the tools you need.  They’ll also offer ideas on how to create a positive, long-term relationship with your employee. You will have a chance to talk about your own experiences, ask questions, and share concerns. This will be a safe space to learn from other parents who have hired a nanny or in-home child care provider.

The Spirited Child workshop is back! Are you the parent of a child who is strong-minded and has intense feelings? Or a child who may have endless energy, gets easily frustrated, or is very shy? Would you like to learn parenting tools that work with your child’s personality and stage of development? Rebecah Freeling is a Wits’ End Parenting coach and former center director who has 20 years of experience in early childhood education. You will learn ways to deal with tantrums, aggression, shyness, and other challenging behaviors often displayed by “spirited” children.

Note that when you register for the first workshop, you are registered for the entire series.

Series dates: 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, & 10/24

BANANAS is offering Choosing Child Care at Room to Bloom Family Resource Center! This workshop will introduce you to the variety of child care options and offer guidance on how to begin the process of finding a child care provider or preschool program that’s right for your family. Subsidized or low-cost child care options will also be discussed and our knowledgeable counselor will help explain various eligibility options.

We know that choosing the right child care fit for your child can be a hard decision. There are a lot of things to consider, such as the cost, hours, and type of child care that is best for your family. You may have questions about the differences between a family child care, a center, or other available options. With so many types of care to choose from, many parents aren’t even sure where to start. We’ll discuss each type of care so you can connect with the right provider. Come meet other parents and learn all there is to know about choosing child care. Children and babies are welcome to attend.

Eligiendo el Cuidado de Niños a Room to Bloom Family Resource Center
Este taller realizado en Room to Bloom le presentará las distintas opciones de cuidado infantil disponibles y ofrecerá orientación sobre cómo comenzar el proceso de encontrar un proveedor de cuidado infantil o un programa preescolar adecuado para su familia. También se le informará sobre opciones de cuidado infantil subsidiado o de bajo costo y nuestro consejero le ayudará a entender cómo inscribirse si califica para recibir asistencia. Niños y bebés son bienvenidos a asistir.

You’re invited to our free, three-part New Moms Support Group series! We want to congratulate you on becoming a new mom. Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you’re excited, worried, overwhelmed, and overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Fortunately, finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions, and build friendships with one another. Alexis Azzam, a mom and licensed marriage and family therapist, will offer lots of information along with tips for decreasing isolation and bonding with your infant. This will be a safe space to connect with others and build community around the experience of motherhood. Bring your baby along too!

Series dates: 9/26, 10/3, & 10/10

If you have an infant, we are here to support you! Whether you are going to work, pursuing educational goals, or balancing a variety of responsibilities, we know that finding reliable, nurturing care for your infant is a top priority. Choosing the right child care fit for your baby can be a difficult decision. There are a lot of things to consider, such as the cost, hours, and type of child care that is best for your family. You may have questions about the differences between a family child care, a center, an in-home caregiver, a nanny share, or other available options. With so many types of care to choose from, many parents aren’t even sure where to start. At Choosing Infant Care, we’ll discuss each type of care so you can connect with the right provider who fits your individual needs.

Facilitator Judy Kriege brings years of experience in early education and child care referral counseling and is able to provide information and answer your questions or speak to your concerns. This is a great opportunity to meet other new and expectant parents and learn all there is to know about choosing infant care. Babies are welcome to attend!

You’re invited to our free, three-part New Moms Support Group series! We want to congratulate you on becoming a new mom. Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you’re excited, worried, overwhelmed, and overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Fortunately, finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions, and build friendships with one another. Alexis Azzam, a mom and licensed marriage and family therapist, will offer lots of information along with tips for decreasing isolation and bonding with your infant. This will be a safe space to connect with others and build community around the experience of motherhood. Bring your baby along too!

Series dates: 9/26, 10/3, & 10/10

This free baby massage workshop is all about relaxation, bonding, and the power of touch. The benefits of baby massage are amazing. When you massage your infant you can reduce crying, increase sleep, improve blood circulation and digestion, balance breathing, inspire relaxation and better self-esteem, and create a loving parent-child bond. In this hands-on workshop taught by Annette Serwanga, you will learn simple massage techniques that your baby will love. Babies are welcome!

Don’t miss our other upcoming workshops in this series covering a variety of topics designed just for new and expectant parents.

October 11: Booties Camp: Baby Yoga

October 18: Booties Camp: Baby Language & Brain Development

October 25: Booties Camp: Baby Sleep

You’re invited to our free, three-part New Moms Support Group series! We want to congratulate you on becoming a new mom. Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you’re excited, worried, overwhelmed, and overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Fortunately, finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions, and build friendships with one another. Alexis Azzam, a mom and licensed marriage and family therapist, will offer lots of information along with tips for decreasing isolation and bonding with your infant. This will be a safe space to connect with others and build community around the experience of motherhood. Bring your baby along too!

Series dates: 9/26, 10/3, & 10/10

It’s time for Baby Yoga! Yoga is a great way to regain shape, strength, and energy after giving birth. It’s also a great way to learn about breath and body awareness. This workshop includes exercises for breathing and getting centered. We’ll also learn poses with and without baby, songs for bonding with baby, and calming exercises for you and baby. Taught by Elika Aird, a certified yoga instructor and doula, the class is designed for mothers and their pre-crawling babies, but babies of all ages are welcome.

Don’t miss our other upcoming workshops in this series covering a variety of topics designed just for new and expectant parents.

October 18: Booties Camp: Baby Language & Brain Development

October 25: Booties Camp: Baby Sleep

This Booties Camp workshop is all about baby language and brain development. Did you know that while babies are still in the womb they begin to make connections to their moms through the senses (touch, smell, sound, etc)? In fact, by only eight months old, they already have a trillion brain synapses that need to be stimulated for healthy development. As parents, you can support this vital development through touching, singing, reading, talking, and creating safe, loving, and nurturing relationships with your baby. This important workshop will cover the basics of baby brain development, baby and adult language, understanding verbal cues, practical tips for language development, and more. Taught by Madeline Meyer Riley, MFT, this class is sure to have you talking, thinking, and communicating with your little one. Bring all of your questions and concerns, and bring your baby along too! Light refreshments will be served.

Don’t miss Booties Camp: Baby Sleep, the last workshop in this series designed especially for new and expectant parents. We will cover all aspects of infant sleep, so you and your new little one can be set up for successful, restful nights. The  sleep workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 25 at 10 am.

You’re invited to a Booties Camp workshop all about baby sleep. Sleep can often feel like the number one lost activity for new parents when the baby arrives. You may be up all night soothing a crying infant, exhausted from keeping up with your little one throughout the day, or just tired from trying to juggle life’s many tasks. At this workshop, we will talk about sleep patterns, locations, naps, night feedings, co-sleeping, healthy training, and much more! We hope you’ll join us to learn how you and your new baby can enjoy peaceful, restful nights. Bring your questions and come learn about what’s going on with your newborn. Light refreshments will be served and babies are welcome!

Fathering From Within is a free four-part workshop series designed to empower fathers from the inside out. Offering personal tools that help to define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose and establish guiding principles for fatherhood, this series will help people to navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. Participants learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it and share it with our children in order for their futures to be bright and promising.

Workshop facilitator Gaylon Logan, Jr has over 20 years of experience working with boys and men of color and their families. He is a father, grandfather, and the CEO of the nonprofit Village-Connect, Inc., which specializes in culture-based approaches to transformative change for individuals, groups, and families.

Dates: 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, & 11/16