Learn how to effectively communicate with your young children so they listen to and feel heard by you. Develop communication tools by applying insight into your child’s world through understanding child development, individual temperament, the role of empathy and responsive listening.
Are you the parent of a 3-5 year old? If so, then you will want to know more about Early Childhood Screening! Early Childhood Screening is a quick and simple check of how a child is growing and developing and is intended for children between 3-5 years of age to help identify any learning or health concerns prior to the start of kindergarten. Tune into this webinar to learn more about this free screening offered through local school districts!
Early literacy is developed when we sing a lullaby, listen and respond to a baby’s babbling, say a mealtime prayer, read the directions for making pancakes, or write an email to grandma. All of these meaningful activities help children learn language, vocabulary, and the purpose of print. These are the skills they need to be good readers. Participate in this webinar to find out more about family literacy, consider what you are already doing and learn new ideas. The presenter is Angèle Sancho Passe, author of Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten? A toolkit for preparing children and families (Redleaf Press, 2010)
Will my child be ready for kindergarten? How will I know? Children are born learning and they are good at it! And, they need your help and support to ensure that they are fully prepared to head off to Kindergarten and a successful school experience. In this webinar we will discuss developmental milestones birth through five and provide resources and strategies for you to support your developing child. We will also discuss Kindergarten Readiness Indicators, explore additional resource links and videos and discuss how these resources can support you, your child’s first and most important teacher! Our Ready Kids also need Ready Schools and Involved Communities to support their success. We will explore what you can do to support your schools and communities to be ready for your children.
Wendy Manning is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. She is the Co-Director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research and the Associate Director of the Center for Family Demographic Research. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a family demographer with a research emphasis on union formation and stability and relationships among adolescents as well as adults. She is the co-principal investigator on NIH funded grant, Counting Families: Household Matrices with Multiple Family Members, as well as funded projects on young adult and teen dating relationships and the meaning of cohabiting unions in the U.S. She has served as the President of the Association of Population Centers, Vice-President of the Population Association of America, and the Chair of the American Sociological Association Population Section.
Pat Tanner Nelson
Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Delaware
Dr. Pat Tanner Nelson focuses on parent education and support, childhood obesity prevention, family stress management, and work/family integration. Collaborating with federal, state, and community organizations, Pat strives to build research-based education into the broad continuum of resources needed by families today. Pat is co-PI for eXtension Just in Time Parenting, a national interactive Internet resource that strives to bring high quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful and make the biggest difference in their lives. Follow-up evaluations show that Just in Time Parenting is useful to all parents; the greatest impact is with those who are youngest, poorest and least educated.
B-DI is a project started in 1996 to promote understanding of behavioral individuality among parents and professionals. The B-DI website is intended as a clearinghouse for research and practical information about temperamental characteristics to be used by parents, students, professionals and others who have an interest in behavioral individuality. Resources include temperament questionnaires and scoring software for use with children and adults as well as books and a newsletter on dealing with 'high maintenance' and 'spirited' children.
