The Magic of Stone Soup
By Carol Castanon Secure Beginnings Parent Consultant Sheltering in place has been a dramatic reminder of the power of meaningful connections. We might be plenty worried...
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Support for Families during Shelter In Place
By Carol Castanon Secure Beginnings Parent Consultant I’m wondering how you are holding up? Like yours, my family has elders, working parents, childcare, young children, and pregnancy. Some of...
The Doing vs. Being of a ParentCare Volunteer
by Ellen Nightingale “What does a ParentCare volunteer do?” is a frequent question both a soon to be parent and a potential ParentCare volunteer might ask....
24 – 36 Months
This stage of development can often bring new challenges in the parent child relationship. Toddlers are fast, bold and opinionated. Curiously, while they are finding their...
12 – 24 Months
With baby’s first birthday, many parents and caregivers feel a sense of accomplishment, relief, and joy after their first year together as a family. Baby may...
4 – 12 Months
The infant stage of child and parent At about 4 months of age, most babies begin to smile on volition, laugh, gaze with reciprocity, and refine...
Newborn 0 – 3 Months
This stage is the beginning of the infant parent relationship. While the prenatal experience has influenced child, mother, father and caregiver in many ways, sometimes...
First Steps to a Healthy Relationship with Sleep
by Carol Castanon and Andi Metlzer For many people, there is nothing better than falling into bed after a long day. For adults, the idea of...
Los primeros pasos para una relación sana con el sueno
March 28, 2019 Escrito por Carol Castanon and Andi Metlzer Para muchas personas, no hay nada mejor que acostarse después de un largo día. Para los adultos,...
Guidance for Working Families
written by Carol Castanon, Secure Beginnings Parent Consultant and Mary Biggs, Director Basic Trust (www.basictrust.org) Many families experience primary caregivers going back to work. Let’s look...
What a Young Child Understands: Waiting for the Birth of a Baby
written by Carol Castanon, Parent Consultant What do young children hear when adults talk about the new baby that’s coming? How does a toddler or young child...
Who Are Toddlers?
written by Elizabeth Memel, M.A., Infant & Toddler Specialist In looking through books dealing with toddlers, one finds several definitions of these very young children. In...