Nourishing Healthy Relationships

Our conversation this evening will revolve around:

• Finding joy in parenting

• The challenges parents face

• How to handle unwanted advice

• Consumer challenges and technology overuse

• Nurturing our children in nature

• Parenting to change the world

Parents are their children’s first and most empowering role models. Meeting our children’s needs by nurturing them with sensitivity, kindness, and compassion is a model for children to observe and learn how to conduct themselves in this world. We are mocking the most precious investment there could be: As today’s children will become tomorrow’s adults, a life cycle of compassion and connection will pave the way for a more peaceful, compassionate world for future generations.

We aim to provide what you and every parent needs for healthy, flourishing parenting, families, and children:

• Lower and buffered stress.

• Practical coping skills.

• The space to learn and share broad research and experiences about healthy, effective parenting.

• The ability to choose what fits your needs and the encouragement that guides your progress in the areas that matter most.

We hope you’ll join us!

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.