Corporate Parenting Seminars

Educating Parents in Making Competent Child Care Choices

1. Choosing Child Care for the Working Parent: A delineation of the different types of childcare arrangements, as well as factors to consider when choosing the setting and other program considerations.
    
2. Transitioning the Child and Parent into A Child Care Arrangement: this seminar is designed to assist parents as they go through the process of returning to work. Strategies and techniques to aid both parent and child during this transition will be discussed, as well as examining the emotional aspects.
    
3. Safety In and Around The Home: This seminar will cover how to create a healthy and safe home that will ensure your child will thrive safely.
    
4. Understanding Systems in Place to Help Children with Special Needs and Their Families: This seminar will discuss the importance of early intervention, what systems are in place for different ages in the state of CT and NY and what parents can do to advocate for their child.
    
5. The Importance of Early Literacy and Language Skills in Preschool Age Children: Children who have an awareness of letters and pre-reading skills excel in school. This seminar will give participants a framework of how to read to children, develop pre-reading skills, how to read a book to a child, the importance of reading and a bibliography of appropriate books for children as well as tips on selecting books.
    
6. The First Year of Life: This seminar will explore the developmental stages children and adults as they proceed on this venture. It will cover the infant’s sleeping, eating, developmental stages, bonding and other areas of concern.
    
7. The Second and Third Years of Life: Two-year-old children are challenging!! This seminar will give parents insight to the developmental issues of the two-year-old including temper tantrums, toilet training, eating, sleeping, etc.
    
8. The Fourth and Fifth Years of Life: This seminar will explore the challenges of parenting a 4 and 5-year-old child. It will cover concerns with making friends and play-dates, eating, preschool, fears and phobias, getting ready for kindergarten, etc.
    
9. Challenging Behavioral: This seminar will explore the different behaviors children exhibit (appropriate and not-so-appropriate) and effective strategies on how to deal with them.
    
10. Feeding My Child and Family: Developing good eating habits at an early age has lasting effects. This seminar embraces easy meals to prepare for your child at home and for the childcare setting. It will also cover ways to introduce foods, easy dinner tips, and including your child in meal planning and preparation.
     
11. Basic First-Aid: This seminar addresses basic first aid, choking, asthma, poisonings, dog bites and more.
     
12. Creative Activities, What do I do with my child on a day off? This seminar will give a quick review of developmental stages and activities that can be done at home that are free or low cost.
     
13. Preparing My Child For Kindergarten: This seminar examines preparing both child and parent for kindergarten. The implementation of practical strategies and techniques to make this transition easier will be explored.
     
14. Making the most of Parent Conferences: Being prepared, knowing and asking the right questions and working jointly with your child’s teacher, will make conference time valuable and provide insight in ways to help your child shine in school.
     
15. Dealing with Death and Dying: this seminar will explore the different ways to talk to children about death, present resources and books, and help the family through this time.
     
16. Rise-N-Shine - Survival Guidelines for Working Parents: Learn ways to smooth out the morning and bedtime hassles at home.
     
17. Raising Responsible Children: Responsibility is lacking in our youth today. Now, more than ever, kids expect money, toys, and gifts… and aren't doing much to get them. In this session, parents will see how rules, consequences, chores, and allowances will set their children up for an independent, successful future and a better home life for the NOW.
     
18. Helping Children Though Divorce: This seminar will explore the stages children go through as parents divorce. Practical applications and implications will be presented to make the transition easier.
     
19. Determining and Understanding Your Parenting Style: This presentation surveys the four major parenting styles. Participants will be "tested" to determine their individual parenting style. Implications as to how each style impacts children will be presented. A discussion will explain how you can change your parenting style if needed.
     
20. Parenting a Teenage Child: Teenagers present a whole host of issues. This seminar will cover the developmental stages of this age group and how understanding and communication may ease stressful relationships.
     
21. Yours, Mine and Ours: Blended Families: Blended Families are dynamic in character. Meeting everyone’s needs, getting viewpoints across while keeping the peace can be challenging. Explore the different ways to make blended families work.
     
22. What is the New Mothers Group? This education and monthly support group is designed for mothers with infants in their first year. It provides support and information on infant development, with a focus on the emotional aspects of infant development and becoming a new mother. Topics covered include: the attachment process, your changing identity, infant brain development, the role of fathers, and helping to keep peace in the family.

How are the Seminars Designed? Each seminar is designed to be offered within a 45-60 minute timeframe. Presentations can be done in a quiet corner of the employees’ cafeteria or designated boardroom. Provisions can be made for groups desiring a longer workshop.

What are the benefits for my company to offer these seminars? Research shows that employees who are comfortable, educated and knowledgeable in their childcare arrangements and parenting skills are more productive employees and have fewer absenteeism days.

Who are the presenters for these seminars? ECETI has numerous instructors who teach early childhood coursework, and other professionals such as nurses, psychologist, speech/language pathologists and preschool teachers. Most are parents themselves who have dealt with similar concerns as other parents.

What are the costs of a 45-60 minute workshop? The basic cost is $175.00 (materials included). ECETI can customize any of these seminars to your location and timeframes. Day long parenting conferences can also be arranged.

Can a corporation set-up a monthly schedule of seminars? Yes, absolutely. In fact we encourage corporations to select a series and schedule that best fits the needs of their employees.

How do you suggest I choose the seminars to be delivered? Some corporations include the choices in their company newsletter with a short reply form. Others use email to get feedback from employees as to what their needs are.

If I set-up a year long series and the needs change, can I change the workshops? Absolutely, with 30 days notice.

Some of my employees work from home and it would not be convenient for them to attend an on-site seminar. What are my other choices? ECETI can arrange seminars closer to where they live or provide evening classes if that is more suitable. An additional cost would be charged to secure an outside location.

I would like to offer 1 seminar to my employees. What do you suggest? ECETI suggests the Rise-N-Shine Seminar. We would extend a 10% discount during 2004 to have your company try this one out.

What are some of the other services ECETI offers? ECETI offers a wide variety of services to both early care settings and not for profit and profit organizations/corporations. We are involved in the CT State Dept. of Social Services “Training Program in Child Development” as well as a host of on-site professional development opportunities for teachers and school systems. Our consultative services include education consultation, business and management, computer database design and technical assistance for staff evaluations and motivations. ECETI also provides Organizational Development Services: facilitation of strategic planning sessions, training for Boards of Directors, Conference Planning and Association Management.

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