KQED Early Learning is proud to be a recipient of a 2006 Parenting Counts Outreach Grant for the second year. Parenting Counts: A Focus on Early Learning, co-developed by Talaris and KCTS Seattle/Television brings the research on best parenting practices into parent's daily lives through a series of television spots and workshops. The goals of the program are:
• Stimulate greater awareness of early learning (birth
to five years)
• Promote more effective parenting and caregivers techniques
• Enhance parent-child relationships
Outreach
How does Parenting Count at KQED? Through community partnerships, train the trainer and parent workshops, on air spots, free childrens' books and materials and a family event. There is no other job more important than raising healthy, happy, secure and competent children. Parenting Counts' simple 60 second on-air spots offer research-based information and tips to parents in language easy to understand. Listed below are the on air themed messages that the Parenting Counts workshops , books and materials are based on.
Copycats (about imitative behavior)
Find corresponding photos
at http://www.talaris.org/parentingcounts.htm)
Whether you hum when you're happy or stomp your foot when you're mad, your kids are learning from you every day and in every way.
Careful Frank (about communicating approval)
Your child is learning what's okay and what's not by reading your
expressions and watching your gestures.
Book of Jenny (about getting in tune with baby)
Every baby communicates in his or her own way with special cues.
It is your job to interpret what your baby is saying with these little signals.
Rough Day (about handling stress)
When you are stressed, do your kids know it? Kids learn how to cope
with stress by watching what you do in stressful situations.
Testing 1,2,3 (about learning by testing)
Toddlers need to test everything in their environment, over and over and over again. Many times, they also test you!
Parentese (about talking to baby)
Babies love to hear Parentese, the sing-song speech that many
parents naturally use to help their baby learn sounds and words.
Keep Talking (about talking to kids)
Kids- and babies- need conversation to help them learn. Turns out,
it's easier than you may think to keep talking through out the day.
Tantrums Happen! (about tantrums)
Temper tantrums are part of normal development and a child's way of dealing with
emotional overload.
Parenting Counts Workshops have been conducted by the following KQED Early Learning
Community Partners:
Male Support Group
Virginia Head Start
Executive Director, Caroline Cornelius
4335 Virginia Avenue
Oakland, CA 94619
Phone: (510) 261-1484
Wednesday/Thursday evenings 6:30-7:30pm, March 8, 16 & 23, 2006
Community Health Education
City and County of San Francisco
Department of Public Health
Black Infant Health Improvement Project
Jenee Edwards
30 Van Ness, Suite 260
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 575-5682 Fax: (415)575-5799
Jenee.Johnson@sfdph.org
Thursday evenings 6-7:30pm, March 9, 16 and 23, 2006
City of Oakland
Even Start Family Literacy Project
Tracy Black
150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 5352
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 238-2317 Fax: (510) 238-6784
tmblack@oaklandnetcom
Friday mornings, 9-10:30am, January 20, February 3 & February 10, 2006
HIPPY San Francisco
Elizabeth Soberanes
3750 18th St. Room 410
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 355-7380, fax (415) 355-7329
esoberanes@earthlink.net
Mondays mornings, 10am-noon, March 6, March 20, April 3, & April 24,
2006.
Family and Community Services Center
Visitacion Valley Community Center, Inc. Children's Programs
Meriam T. Abalos,
Center Director
161 Leland Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94134
Tel: (415) 586-6998
Fax: (415) 586-8027
meriam_vvcc@sbcglobal.net
Thursday evenings, 5:30-7pm, March 16, 23, & 30, 2006
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