Charting a New Course: Breaking the Ties that Bind - In-Person or Online

Your parenting journey is unique to you and your family and a shared and timeless human growth process.

Join us for “Charting a New Course: Breaking the Ties that Bind” as we discuss:

• The difference between bonding and attachment

• How our own childhood experiences and PACES affect the way we raise our children

• Nature and Nurture

• The legacy of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth

• API's Eight Principles of Parenting

• The 4 Ps of Innate Needs

Our goal is to help you make Parenting Sweet! These meet-ups are designed to:

• Improve pregnancy and birth outcomes

• Improve parenting knowledge about child development

• Increase parent confidence

• Increase positive parenting skills, including positive discipline

• Increase parental resilience

• Increase child resilience

• Increase levels of empathy toward their children

• Ensure healthy, secure attachment

• Prevent and mitigate child trauma

Need flexbility? You can come in-person, to the Bristol Public Library, or join us online, depending on what works best for you each month. We’ll send out a Zoom link before each session, and we’re easy to reach with questions.

Program Overview:

The Attached at the Heart Parenting Education Program curriculum training provides parents, child advocates and professionals much needed insight into childrearing with specific tools to help parents learn more about child development, neuroscience, and positive discipline, to trust the intuitive knowledge of their child, ultimately building a foundation that will strengthen healthy child attachment.

Register now for the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program. The sessions are free of charge, and document of completion is provided. We will meet the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. The Attached at the Heart Parenting Program helps you connect with your child, provides tools to turn parenting challenges into opportunities, and helps your child flourish. Connect with other parents and find balance, support, and encouragement!

Please get in touch with us

If you prefer a faster pace through the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program, we offer a weekly series of sessions. For parenting students in 4th through 9th grades, we offer Guiding Good Choices parenting workshops.

Please get in touch with us at [email protected] or visit https://appalachianpromisealliance.org/parenting/ for information about these or other parenting series.

Meet the Instructor! Samantha Gray is the coordinator for Appalachian Promise Alliance Education Network and Parenting Sweet, and she has been a parenting educator for more than 24 years. She is passionate about helping parents and children flourish with community support and evidenced-informed understanding and practices.

Samantha is certified in many different programs and has created parenting programs. She has led parenting support groups and classes for more than 20 years, covering topics on pregnancy, birth, attachment, feeding, sleep, discipline, balance, childcare, babywearing, teens, life skills, and education. She writes a weekly column on Parenting for the Bristol Herald Courier.

Host or Publisher Appalachian Promise Alliance