Charting a New Course: Breaking the Ties that Bind - LIVE Online Session

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

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

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.

Future Classes to Check-Out!

Discover more ways to “Make Parenting Sweet!”! Explore all our classes right here on Eventbrite, and sign up today without delay!

Prepare Yourself for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, May 30, 2024, 7:30 PM

Feed with Love and Respect - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, June 6, 2024, 7:30 PM

Responding with Sensitivity- LIVE Online Session

Thursday, June 13, 2024, 7:30 PM

Use Nurturing Touch - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, June 20, 2024, 7:30 PM

Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, June 27, 2024, 7:30 PM

Provide Consistent, Loving Care - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, June 27, 2024, 7:30 PM

Practice Positive Discipline - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, July 11, 2024, 7:30 PM

Strive for Balance in Personal & Family Life - LIVE Online

Thursday, July 18, 2024, 7:30 PM

Nourishing Healthy Relationships - LIVE Online Session

Thursday, July 25, 2024, 7:30 PM