Building Better Connections with Families Matter

The core of every loving relationship is a secure attachment. A positive emotional bond with a parent affects how children feel about themselves, how they get along with others, how they communicate, and how they learn. It is at its core, the most important child development experience a child has. Building Better Connections provides you with easy to understand and simple activities that support you and your child. 

Topics include: 

• Creating A Loving Connection: Loving connection is an emotional bond between parent and child in which the child is unconditionally loved and protected.
• Being A Secure Base: A secure base helps a child to feel secure inside themselves, seek comfort when needed, handle the ups and downs of life, and feel curious and confident to explore their world. 
• Accepting Feelings: Children need to have their feelings accepted to be able to develop a positive sense of themselves, express how they feel rather than act out in the “wrong” ways, eventually learn how to cope with their own feelings and understand those of others. 
• Setting Limits: Children need limits to develop self control/self regulation, avoid hurting themselves or others, learn what’s expected within their family and community, and feel safe and emotionally secure. 
• Promoting Language: Children need to hear language spoken to and around them to be able to: absorb the sounds and rhythms of their main language, connect the wiring in their brain that’s responsible for language, learn words to express and control emotions, and learn words to help remember their early thoughts and experiences. 
• Having Baby Conversations: Children need baby conversations to: feel connected to people that love them, learn the language of their community, practice sounds, words, gestures they know and learn new ones, keep advancing to higher levels of language, develop social skills they need to get along with peers. 
• Being A Play Partner: Play allows children to: socialize, problem solve, think symbolically, work out their real-life anxieties, and stretch their imagination and creativity. 
• Content is Ideal for ages: 0 – 1 years old, although children can be up to 24 months old during the sessionsDevelopmental Focus: Attachment and Communication 

  This set of sessions will be offered in-person, at the Calgary West FRN Hub – The Children’s Cottage in Montgomery.

  Please register for one Adult Participant and up to two Child Participants (0 – 24 months old).

  Registration will close on January 28, 2025, unless otherwise noted.