“Excellent – more learned in the two hours than usually learned in a whole series.”
“Everybody should know this information if you want to be a better parent”
“Jam packed with information and inspiration.”
“Informative and reaffirming (as a parent) insightful, easy to understand and presented so well it just makes sense!”
“Very inspiring. Very important info!”
“Extremely valuable for initial parent preparation for choosing schools and relieving stress around it.”
Parent Seminar Series with Christine
Roberts
Fall 2010 – Winter 2011
Parents need more
information about how the kind of
care they provide affects their children's capacities.
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New Insights into Early Development Conference
Report
June 1996
“It’s very important for a new parent to come to these seminars. The information is so valuable for a first time parent. It gives you information that you might never know.”
“Great collection of available information in a distilled format. I like that we can take the ‘gems’ away!”
- 2 hour seminars
- Food
- Fabulous Handouts
- And Fun!
Location: Phinney Ridge Neighborhood
Center, Room 6
6532 Phinney Avenue North • Seattle, WA 98103
Language Development: The Keys to Cognition
Monday, October 4th, 2010 6:30-8:30PM
From babbling to sentences the brain takes a fascinating journey developing a child’s capacity to read and write. Curious about how all of this comes together and what you can do to foster your child’s verbal skills? Join Christine with special guest speaker Gina Lebedeva from ILABS, the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, to learn how the brain hard wires your child’s mind for language and the connection to cognition, reading and writing. You will leave feeling confident and equipped to positively impact your child’s language development. Fun activities and learning opportunities will abound all evening long to anchor the information and make it easy to apply at home with your child or children.
Register online at: https://www.secure.miniature.net/nurturingpathways/pgp-parent.htm
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Making Sense of Social-Emotional Development
Tuesday November 16th 2010 6:30PM – 8:30PM
Ever wonder what all those emotional moments mean in the life of your developing child and how to decipher what you should do to address their feelings? This workshop will unfold the developmental timeline of emotional development and address how you can effectively work with each stage from birth up to five. Whether you are a parent of an infant or a parent of a 3 year old this workshop is for you! Understanding how your child grows emotionally gives you a window into their world that helps you develop your communication skills during each changing phase. So much goes on during the early years now is the time to understand how you can support your child's social emotional growth. As they grow up you can enjoy a close relationship and watch them grow into caring for others and being happy with themselves.
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Temperament, Learning Styles and Play Dates and Classmates: How they All Work Together
Tuesday, January 25th 2011 6:30PM- 8:30PM
Discover the different learning styles and temperaments and how they influence your child’s behavior and affect the peer relationships they develop during the toddler years and beyond. Whether it is a play date or a class mate find solutions that work for forming positive friendships that will boost your child’s social skills and build up their self-esteem. Help your child feel at home with themselves and others and move from feeling anxious to accepting as you watch them grow.
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School Readiness: What Is It and What’s The Best Approach for Me and My Child?
Monday March 7th, 2011
Ready or Not, Here School Comes
Do you know what it takes to have your child ready for school? It may surprise you to learn the key to developing skills that will help your child succeed. Give yourself a leg up and a leg in to understanding what will equip your child for school when the time comes. You will also learn about different types of school programs and some of the many options that you have in looking at education choices for your child. I will provide you with outstanding handouts and a great evening of learning as well as a question and answer session at the end.
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Christine’s Bio:
Christine Roberts is the founder of Nurturing
Pathways®, a creative dance program that provides comprehensive development
for babies to four years. Her work has been endorsed by Seattle-based
pediatrician, Dr. Naomi Katz, biologist and educator, Dr. Carla Hannaford,
and Vaughnetta J. Barton, Executive Director, Foundation for Early Learning.
“The Nurturing Pathways ® focus on whole child development with structured creative dance movements supports the vision of the Foundation in preparing children and their parents for kindergarten. Babies, toddlers and their parents have shown positive results in nurturing the parent-child bonding and relationship. I recommend the experience for all families.”
-Vaughnetta J. Barton, Executive Director, Foundation for Early Learning
Christine’s message that ‘movement is the gateway for learning because of its positive impact on development and school readiness’, reaches over 1,000 people annually. She is a featured speaker with National Association for the Education of Young Children and National Head Start Association as well as other early learning and parent education conferences.
This was truly wonderful and inspiring. The importance
of tummy-time, cross lateral movement, and how it impacts
the brain development. Also tummy-time with the
adults face near to the baby on the floor.
- Janet Bisignano, Parent Education Coordinator for North
Seattle Community College
