Toddler & Preschool Parent Groups

Toddlerhood and the preschool years bring unique challenges to the world of parenting. Join other toddler or preschool parents during these virtual parent group series to build community, share successes/struggles, and learn valuable, brain-based tools to help you and your child thrive. Guided by the best-selling book, The Whole-Brain Child, we'll explore weekly strategies that support your child's emotional-regulation, social communication, language and resiliency. We'll dive into the brain science behind why connection works to calm tantrums, how to set boundaries, and how to balance big emotions and your child's growing desire for independence. Each session will incorporate the following:

1. Connection Time: Share successes and struggles in the journey of parenting a toddler or a preschooler. You'll have time to share what's going well and what's currently challenging while getting advice from Hanna and other parents in the group.
2. Weekly Learning Topic: See topics below (these can be adjusted based on the specific needs and interests of the group).
3. Questions and Debrief: You'll have a chance to ask specific questions related to our weekly theme and wrap up with some final connection before we say goodbye. 

Weekly topics include:
1. Integrating the brain to support regulation and resiliency. We'll explore how integration between the left/right and upstairs/downstairs parts of the brain lead to regulation.
Specific strategies may include: Connect and Redirect and Name It to Tame It.
2. Using connection to help manage big feelings and support your child's learning and development. We'll discuss how to gracefully manage your child's emotional explosions (or fizzles) and how to engage their learning brains.
Specific strategies may include: Engage, Don't Enrage and Use It/Move It or Lose It.  
3. Weaving emotional-regulation support into daily activities. We'll explore various ways to build a culture of emotional-regulation at home.  
Specific strategies may include: Emotional vocab activities and attuning to your child when big feelings happen.   
4. Using our past to inform our present. We'll discuss how our experiences of being parented can impact our decisions about how we parent and co-parent. 
Specific strategies may include: Using the Remote of the Mind and Remember to Remember.  
5. Connection during conflict. We'll explore how to expose our children to safe conflict and model recovery, resiliency and relationship.
Specific strategies may include: Alternatives to the empty apology and games to build resiliency.
6. Playful parenting. We'll dive into what it means to be a playful parent and how to embrace special moments of connection with our children. 
Specific strategies may include: Special Time with your child and Mindful Parenting. 
And more!
Topics can be individualized based on the interests/needs of the group and will be adjusted to relate to your child's developmental stage.

CURRENT/UPCOMING SESSION INFORMATION
Toddler Parent Group:
Weekly Session Timing: TBD
Dates : TBD
Cost: TBD

Preschool Parent Group:
Weekly Session Timing: 9:15-10:00am (PST) on Wednesday mornings
Dates (all 2022 dates): 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30 (no session 11/23)
Cost: $280 for the full series
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* Contact Hanna at hanna.r.bogen@gmail.com to request a personalized group with your specific dates/times. In addition to timing adjustments, groups can also be adjusted for parents of younger/older children. 

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
​​Registration is required to participate. A minimum of six participants is needed for the group to run, and groups are capped at eight participants to ensure enough time for everyone to share each week (unless a larger group specifically requests to stay together). Complete the contact form below to request your registration form and join our upcoming group or to request more information about parent/caregiver groups. Once your contact form is received, you will receive the registration form/payment information via email.