DECEMBER NEWSLETTER: Forum on Positive Parenting+ December Meeting on Future RFP Funding + 5 Things to Read

First 5 Marin's Newsletter:

December 2023

Spotlight:

Forum on Positive Parenting

Learn how to use empathy, compassion, and positive discipline while laying the foundation for teaching your toddler inner control, nurturing their strengths, and motivating them to cooperate. Discussion includes common toddler discipline mistakes, discipline without shame, and what your toddler thinks of discipline. Explore how to share power in age-appropriate ways, interpret children’s behaviors, and strengthen the adult-child relationship.

JOIN US for the next Marin Communications Forum on Monday, December 18th from 10 to 11:30 am.

Presenter: Elisa Magidoff, Director of Parents Place, for the Center for Children and Youth, a division of JFCS.

[After registering with Parents Place, you will receive a confirmation email from them containing information about joining the online meeting.]

Please share the invitation with friends and family, clients, co-workers and community partners!

About Elisa Magidoff:

My career in education began in 2000 working with children and families. I have taught in preschools, directed Inclusion Preschools, Private Preschools and State funded programs. I have been the Executive Director of a non-profit for 4 years leading preschools, before and after school programs and summer camps. From 2009 – 2019 I was adjunct faculty in the Child Development Department at San Mateo Community Colleges where I taught over 40 ECE courses. Since 2019 I have been a lecturer in the Child and Adolescent Development Department at San Francisco State University where I continue to teach early childhood courses.

My interests include cooking and hiking.

QUESTIONS? Email Michelle@First5Marin.org.

SAVE THE DATES! First 5 Marin will be hosting an Ad Hoc Meeting about Future RFP Funding (designing the RFP process only) on Wednesday, December 13th from 4 to 6 pm (at First 5 Marin, 1050 Northgate, Suite 130 in San Rafael). The next full commission meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 10th from 4 to 6 pm at the First 5 Marin. Email Beatriz@First5Marin.org for more information.

First 5 Things to Read in the News Today!

Take a look at some of the recent articles about important issues related to children and families:

Forbes:

Melinda French Gates: Women Need Safety Nets For The Childcare Cliff

The billionaire philanthropist looks forward to a day when economies around the world are transformed by women unburdened by the necessities of free labor.

Harvard Business Review:

Why Early Childhood Education Is More Important Now Than Eve r

American economic prosperity and competitiveness are inextricably linked to the success of early childhood education providers.

The Washington Post:

In the mystery of postpartum depression, the immune system offers clues

Motherhood causes such dramatic remodeling of the brain that now many researchers consider it to be “like another critical period of brain development."(

CNN Business:

The cost of living: How have high prices for homes, childcare and cars impacted you?

Inflation is finally easing but three years of price increases are taking their toll.

ABC:

Why millennial parents are feeling 'abandoned' by previous generations

Some millennials are saying they feel abandoned by their parents regarding help with childcare and our panel discusses the effects of changing familial demographics.

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