0-3 Supplement

Celebrating Families! 0 thru 3 Years Supplement was created to provide opportunities for pregnant mothers, parents, and young families to learn, experience, and practice family skills that support attachment, communication, social skills, and resiliency. It provides opportunities for all family members to be supported in being together by building parent-child relationships through play, family meals, and teaching age-specific critical parenting skills.

Objectives:

To strengthen relationships/attachment between children and parents/caregivers
To decrease parental stress
To enrich children’s healthy environment
To increase parental and child physical health by supportive teaching/modeling of activities promoting healthy brain development
To increase children’s sense of empowerment and self-regulation.

0 -3 Years Program Distinctives:

Primary focus is on the Parent/Child relationship and fostering healthy attachment
0-3 Family Time – an increased emphasis on small group time
0-3 Communication and Interaction
Parenting Sessions specific for this age group

Group leaders do not need to be early childhood experts to successfully implement this program. Ten training modules are included to help prepare group leaders with topics such as: critical skills for parenting, baby cues, healthy attachment, leading children’s small groups, leading parents’/caregivers groups, and 0-3 child development.

*This program can be provided as a stand along program, or in combination with the Celebrating Families! Core Curriculum.

0-3 Skills and Insights

SKILLS LEARNED AND PRACTICED

CENTERING AS A FAMILY
CONTINUITY AND REPETITION
FOLLOWING CHILDREN’S LEAD (INSTEAD OF DIRECTING THEIR PLAY BY TELLING THEM WHAT TO DO)
GIVING CHILDREN SIMPLE CHOICES
GIVING PARTING AND RETURNING AFFIRMATIONS
HOW TO “READ” BOOKS AND ITS IMPORTANCE
IDENTIFYING AND RESPONDING TO BABY CUES
RELAXING AND ENJOYING OUR CHILDREN
REPEATING FAVORITE ACTIVITIES
USING BABY SIGNS AS PRE-LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
USING SPORTSCASTING(LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT)
USING TURN TAKING INTERACTIONS TO SUPPORT HEALTHY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

INFORMATION AND INSIGHTS

ATTACHMENT: IMPORTANCE AND HOW IT IS SUPPORTED IN THE PARENT/CAREGIVER/CHILD RELATIONSHIP
ENCOURAGING AUTONOMY AND EXPLORATION
FACILITATING HEALTHY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
FACILITATING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
IMPORTANCE OF PLAYING WITH CHILDREN
IMPORTANCE OF SETTING AND KEEPING DAILY SCHEDULES FOR FEEDING, SLEEPING, BATHING AND PLAYTIME
SETTING LIMITS WITH 0 THRU 3 YEAR OLDS
USING TIME IN

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