Provide Consistent, Loving Care

Name: Provide Consistent, Loving Care
Start: 2025-04-17T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Bristol Public Library

Schedule

Thu, 17 Apr, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bristol Public Library | Bristol, VA

Explore co-parenting attachment strategies: stress impacts, childcare research, and fostering healthy bonds despite separations. Join us!

How do you ensure your children feel cared for when you and your partner both work? What if you're separated?

Babies and young children have an intense need for the physical presence of consistent, loving, responsive caregivers. Daily care and playful, loving interactions build strong bonds. By providing consistent, loving care from early infancy, parents strengthen their relationship with their child and build a healthy attachment.
Join our discussion this week about:
• How stress affects the developing brain
• The research on childcare
• Working and alternate caregivers
• Separations due to co-parenting
• How to support attachment when using childcare
We hope you’ll join us!
Registration:
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/vfzbm8x/lp/da7e2a25-08a2-4123-8dd6-6584370d944f

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.

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!

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.
Looking for a faster pace, or need help with parenting older children?
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 contact 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.