Responding with Sensitivity

You can build the foundation of trust and empathy by understanding and responding appropriately to your infant's needs. Our parenting prime time offers skills, confidence, and a place to belong! Make plans now to join us! 

• What is empathy, and how it's developed

• Sensitive responsiveness builds trust and attachment

• Serve and return interaction for building strong brains

• Why it's essential to be sensitively responsive at night

• Why does the baby cry and when it is overwhelming

• Research on fathers and the importance of fathers

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.

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!

Use Nurturing Touch

Sunday, July 7, 2024, 4:00 PM

Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally

Sunday, July 14, 2024, 7:30 PM

Provide Consistent, Loving Care

Sunday, July 21, 2024, 4:00 PM

Practice Positive Discipline

Sunday, July 28, 2024, 4:00 PM

Strive for Balance in Personal & Family Life

Sunday, August 4, 2024, 4:00 PM

Nourishing Healthy Relationships

Sunday, August 11, 2024, 4:00 PM