RITA: So many parents who go through the API Leadership process say that it helped them grow as a person and a parent as much as
a parent support leader, myself included.
Not exact matches
Parenting will always be a challenge in the life of any ambitious entrepreneur and / or business
leader, and there are many ways to raise a child: with hired help, with the
support of extended family or working for a company with generous family policies that allow for flexible work hours and parental leave.
Conservative Party of Canada
Leader Andrew Scheer tabled the
Supporting New
Parents Act Monday, a bill the party says will offer tax relief to young families.
Rachel Gardner is president of the Girl's Brigade and founder of the Romance Academy, a national charity that
supports youth
leaders,
parents and teachers in talking with young people about healthy relationships and sexual health.
Editor's Note: John Stemberger is an Eagle Scout and president of On My Honor, a coalition of concerned
parents, Scout
Leaders, Scouting donors, Eagle Scouts and others affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America who are united in their
support of Scouting's timeless values and their opposition to open homosexuality in the Scouts.
What makes this psychology so prevalent is that those who have the power - agents of government,
parents, teachers, business managers, and religious
leaders, who also define what's right or wrong - totally
support it.
Instead, our role as Christian
leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so
parents and community
leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best
support strengthening local schools.
Nashville, TN — May, 2014 — Attachment
Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of parenting support groups with more than 70 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, community leader and advocate for children and families, Margaret Fe
Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of
parenting support groups with more than 70 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, community leader and advocate for children and families, Margaret Fe
parenting support groups with more than 70 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, community
leader and advocate for children and families, Margaret Feierabend.
The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to
support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a
leader in educating sports
parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.
Washington • Kaleidoscope of Families, 430 Broadway E., Seattle, WA 98102, Michael Butler 206-461-4546, free childcare for ages 3 - 12 • South Puget Sound Lesbian & Gay
Parents Support Group c / o Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC), PO Box 947, Tacoma, WA 98401, 253-752-6724 • Village Vida Centre DBA Gay Inside Out PO Box 28114 Bellingham, WA 98228 - 0114 http://www.villagevidacentre.org Contact Information General Email:
[email protected] Public Contact: Dalia de Jesus, Chairperson Executive Director: Dalia de Jesus, Chairperson, ED Board
Leader: Dalia de Jesus, Chairperson Main: 360-220-8400
If you have questions about these Principles or how to apply them to your family situation, please visit an API
parent Support Group or contact an API
leader, or post your comments and questions to API's Forum.
As such, API is responsible to the
parents in those communities and wishes to provide the necessary preparation and
support needed for those who volunteer in the role of
Leader.
Accredited
Leaders support parents by offering information and guidance needed to empower and strengthen the family.
Joining a
support group of like - minded
parents can help reinforce what you read and learn about Attachment
Parenting (AP), and the
leader (s) and members can help you navigate through AP waters.
Through the Leadership process API promises to provide the information and
support to each
Leader so that they can offer it to the
parents who attend
support groups.
She is also a La Leche League
Leader and a
parent educator for the Nurturing Parent Program and the Guiding Good Choices and Support School Success curric
parent educator for the Nurturing
Parent Program and the Guiding Good Choices and Support School Success curric
Parent Program and the Guiding Good Choices and
Support School Success curriculums.
In 1994, as our
parents were caring for us at home, La Leche League
Leaders and schoolteachers Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson cofounded Attachment
Parenting International as a way to educate and
support parents in raising children with abundant warmth and nurturing.
A little about me and my qualifications... Certified Positive Discipline Trainer and ICF Certified Life Coach • master's degree in education •
supporting families since 1999 • Positive Discipline
parent workshop
leader since 2007 • guiding my clients with a deep understanding of what it means to
parent with kindness and firmness • walking my talk every day with my teen daughter and tween son - making loads of mistakes and learning along the way...
Her Hand in Hand team trains
parent leaders in the US and 10 other countries, and offers accessible
support for the vital work of
parenting.
The emphasis on the father's role in another concept has also met with challenges, as we work with and accredit
Leaders from other types of families: those with two mothers or two fathers, those with a single
parent, and those with other situations and different types of
support systems.
I first began volunteering with Attachment
Parenting International as a new
support group
leader in 2004.
Attachment
Parenting International (API) is directly involved in building resilience in communities across the nation and around the world through its local API
Support Groups and accredited API
Leaders by
supporting secure
parent - child attachments.
So, now as an API
Leader, what do you enjoy about providing local
parent support?
At our meetings we offer: a lending library with books on breastfeeding, childbirth,
parenting and nutrition; mother - to - mother
support;
Leaders accredited by La Leche League International.
I like that, through meetings and online
support, being an API
Leader allows me to help new
parents with some of the more challenging parts of babyhood and early childhood.
Breastfeeding
Support www.breastfeedventura.org The Coalition is comprised of health care providers, community
leaders, policy makers, and
parents, as well as public and private organizations with the common goal of promoting and
supporting breastfeeding as the culture norm in Ventura County.
While API's local
leaders and
parent support groups are not specific to breastfeeding
support, we provide a holistic look at breastfeeding and the mother - infant relationship.
Although there is much more to be read from the API
Parent Support Survey, it is clear from the survey that mothers find valuable support for breastfeeding through API's local leaders and online res
Support Survey, it is clear from the survey that mothers find valuable
support for breastfeeding through API's local leaders and online res
support for breastfeeding through API's local
leaders and online resources.
Certainly, whether or not API
Leaders are they themselves trained breastfeeding educators, all of API's leaders support breastfeeding and the impact it has on helping to establish a secure parent - child atta
Leaders are they themselves trained breastfeeding educators, all of API's
leaders support breastfeeding and the impact it has on helping to establish a secure parent - child atta
leaders support breastfeeding and the impact it has on helping to establish a secure
parent - child attachment.
We are able to refer to community resources for breastfeeding questions, such as lactation consultants and La Leche League
leaders and breastpump providers, and we can provide basic
support for
parents to make the best decisions for their family.
Programs: API trains and accredits
Leaders around the world, hosts regular
support groups, online forums, and
parent support, conducts advocacy, research, and outreach programs, publishes a magazine, The Attached Family, and several enewletters, as well as an annual Journal of research, teleseminars, book club, AP Month in October, and many other programs.
If you have questions about applying the Eight Principles in your family, please contact an API
Parent Support Group
Leader near you or API Headquarters.
I get calls here and there, sometimes from
parents, sometimes from La Leche League
leaders, who want community AP
support.
Kesem is a nationwide community driven by over 4,500 passionate college student
leaders, that
supports children through and beyond their
parent's cancer.
Attachment
Parenting International (API) encourages all mothers to consider hiring a doula, to be in frequent contact with a breastfeeding specialist and to connect with their local API
Leaders and API
Support Groups.
Hand in Hand
Parenting trains parent leaders in the US and 10 other countries, and offers parents accessible support for the vital work of p
Parenting trains
parent leaders in the US and 10 other countries, and offers
parents accessible
support for the vital work of
parentingparenting.
She is also the
Leader Liaison for Attachment
Parenting International (API) and API's Education and
Support Coordinator.
Attachment
Parenting International (API) has many dads who volunteer to share their stories and
support other dads, such as API Advisory Board members Dr. Bill Sears of San Clemente, California, USA, and Sir Richard Bowlby of the UK; Torsten Klaus, also of the UK; API
Leader Thiago Quieroz of Rio, Brazil; Jim Parker of Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Dave Taylor of Denver, Colorado, USA; and John Brooks of Marin County, California, USA.
It made so much sense to me that it inspired me to not only become an API
Leader and create an API
Support Group here in Brazil — API Rio — but also to write and speak about Attachment
Parenting.
I, and other La Leche League
Leaders, look forward to a society that provides every
parent with adequate
support to meet their personal breastfeeding goals.
It's a no - brainer when hundreds of thousands of families like the Nazarios will continue to get the critical
support and services they need to succeed — as students,
parents, workers, mentors,
leaders, or in any other role they pursue.
You may wish to post this question on the API Forum, where you can get
support and advice from experienced API
Leaders and other
parents.
Camp Kesem is a nationwide community, driven by passionate college student
leaders, that
supports children through and beyond their
parent's cancer.
Contact your local API
Support Group to speak with an API
Leader, or if you're not located near a
parenting group, submit your question through the API Warmline.
All
parents are encouraged to seek out
support from their local API Leader and API Support
support from their local API
Leader and API
SupportSupport Group.
When
parents who are firm in Attachment
Parenting have a question about whether a child - rearing practice leads to a secure
parent - child attachment bond, they feel certain that they can turn to API resources, specifically API's Eight Principles of
Parenting, the cofounders» book Attached at the Heart, or local API
Support Groups and API
Leaders.
But will the
support of
parents and retired military
leaders be enough to overcome the significant influence of the SNA in Congress as we approach the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization?
These groups regularly serve a few to more than 100 families per month in their local communities at no cost to
parents, through in - person meetings and classes, online
support and one - on - one sessions with the group
leader.
All API
Support Groups are led by accredited API
Leaders, trained by API in theory, research and application of Attachment
Parenting as well as compassionate peer counseling techniques and Nonviolent Communication.
That's why API established the Reedy Hickey Scholarship Fund during API's 20th Anniversary Celebration — to
support parent applicants dedicating themselves to voluntarily lead groups who can not afford to pay application fees,
leader dues or
support group dues.