Programs & Services
The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
Dates and Times for Mother Goose Drop inn:
Tuesday Evenings 6 – 7 pm Sept. 7 – Nov. 30, 2010
Friday Mornings 10:30 – 11:30 Sept. 10 – Dec. 3, 2010
Location: Ridgeview Lane 8424 92 Ave. Amenity Building (look for signs).
Contact Pam Lillico 250-785-6021 ext 232
This program offers a group experience for parents and their infants and/or toddlers, focusing on personal interaction through rhymes, stories and song.
Parents gain skills and confidence which can enable them to create positive family patterns during their child’s crucial early years.
Children benefit from healthy early experiences with language and communication.
Program Focus
The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program is a weekly group setting in which parents learn rhymes and songs and interact with their children to foster relationships and promote early language development.
Target Group
Parents/caregivers and their pre-school aged children (infants to 4 years of age)
What Happens at a Mother Goose Session?
- The program is group-oriented and teaching is directed at the adults. The children participate as is appropriate to their stage of development and their desire.
- Activity focuses on interactive rhymes, stories and songs.
- The pace is relaxed, with plenty of time for repetition of material and casual discussion of issues and questions that may arise.
- The atmosphere is accepting and supportive, with the intent of building the confidence and comfort level of all participants and creating a feeling of community and mutual support within the group.
- Groups are small enough to ensure that the needs of individuals, as well as the group as a whole, can be met.
- Instructors are para-professionals, trained in the principles, materials and methods required to facilitate the program effectively.
What are the Benefits?
Parents:
- Gain confidence as learners and parents
- See that they can positively affect, through interaction, how their children behave and learn
- Develop more realistic expectations of their children
- Learn appropriate alternatives to physical control
- Learn new ways of dealing with cranky, fussy times.
Children:
- Show a marked improvement in language and pre-literacy skills
- Gain self-esteem
- Develop social skills.
Parents and Children:
- Experience the spark of delight and magic that comes from enjoying a favorite rhyme or song together
- Learn and keep a repertoire of rhymes, songs and stories
- Enjoy strengthened bonding
- Develop a network of friends.
These skills, pleasures and insights are taken home and shared with older children and other close family members. The whole family benefits.
Contact Pam Lillico 250-785-6021 ext 232
*The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program is Funded by Success By Six, United Way and Spectra Energy Gas Transmission.
