Promoting First Relationships™ Information Page
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Why Promote First Relationships?
Parenting and providing child care to young children is a joyful experience yet it is also challenging and demanding. Poverty, poor parenting models, family stress, special needs, or behavioral difficulties can make the task even more complicated. These first relationships between children and their parents or other caregivers - the people who are closest to them - are crucial to children's later development, particularly their social and emotional development. When these first relationships are positive, children develop confidence in themselves, trusting relationships with others, and a hopeful outlook on life. So why Promote First Relationships? Because how we are as parents is as important as what we do.
For more information, connect to PFR website here . . .
Why Promote First Relationships?
Parenting and providing child care to young children is a joyful experience yet it is also challenging and demanding. Poverty, poor parenting models, family stress, special needs, or behavioral difficulties can make the task even more complicated. These first relationships between children and their parents or other caregivers - the people who are closest to them - are crucial to children's later development, particularly their social and emotional development. When these first relationships are positive, children develop confidence in themselves, trusting relationships with others, and a hopeful outlook on life. So why Promote First Relationships? Because how we are as parents is as important as what we do.
Promoting First Relationships covers issues critical to supporting and guiding caregivers in building nurturing and responsive relationships with children, including theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood; consultation strategies for working with parents and other caregivers; elements of a healthy relationship; promoting the development of trust and security in infancy; promoting healthy development of self during toddlerhood; understanding and intervening with children's challenging behaviors; developing intervention plans for children and caregivers and individualizing Promoting First Relationships for your setting.
The Promoting First Relationships Curriculum includes a 198 page book based on the concepts of attachment theory, an illustrated packet of handouts to be used with parents and childcare providers, and a 28 minute video DVD that explains the elements of healthy caregiver-child relationships. The parent handouts are also available in Spanish.
Training - We have conducted over 45 Promoting First Relationships workshops in every region of the United States and in Japan. We offer training twice a year in Seattle and also offer "on-site" trainings for groups of 25 participants. Contact our office at 206-543-8528 or email ncast@uw.edu for more information.
Upcoming Promoting First Relationships Learner's Workshop -
• October 9 and 10, 2013 - Northcut Landing, Seattle