February 22, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sarah Deal, Community Education Specialist
Smart Start of Forsyth County, 336-714-4344
Smart Start and Kiwanis Unite for Book Drive
WINSTON-SALEM, NC—Local Kiwanis Clubs and Smart Start of Forsyth County have come together for the fifth year to launch a book drive for children ages birth to five. This year’s Book Drive is in memory Dewey Yarborough, Golden K Kiwanis Club member who passionately supported the Book Drive efforts from the beginning.
The book drive is a campaign designed to generate book donations for Smart Start’s parent resource bags. These bags are given to new parents and contain information that parents need to provide a healthy, happy, and safe beginning for their children. Each bag also contains a new or gently used children’s book. The Kiwanis Clubs in Forsyth County support the drive by donating books on behalf of their speakers and encouraging their members to give to the drive. “Many households with children don’t have a single children’s book,” says Chuck Kraft, executive director of Smart Start of Forsyth County. “It’s important that every child have access to books – the foundation for early learning,” says Kraft.
The book drive officially begins March 1st and ends April 18th. Smart Start hopes to collect 2000 new or gently used preschool books. Books in Spanish and books for infants are especially needed.
Collection sites include the American Red Cross, Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, Clemmons Library, Kernersville Library, Lewisville Library, Goodwill Industries, Kaplan Company, Salem Gymnastics, Smart Start of Forsyth County, St. Paul UMC, The Montessori School of Winston-Salem, the Fulton, Jerry Long, Kernersville, Robinhood Rd. and Winston Lake branches of the YMCA and the YWCA - Gateway. All monetary donations may be sent to Sarah Deal at Smart Start of Forsyth County, 7820 North Point Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27106.
Smart Start is a nonprofit organization that administers programs to improve the quality, affordability, and accessibility of child care, as well as provide access to health services and necessary family support to the community.
For more information about the drive contact Sarah Deal at 336-714-4344 or
sarahd@smartstart-fc.org.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Imprints for Families
This is what the folks at Imrpints for Families want you to know:
For nearly forty years Imprints has worked to serve families with babies and young children in our community.
Through home visits and group meetings parents and their children receive the necessary support and education for healthy pregnancy and birth outcomes, early developmental screenings to catch delays and continued educational support to help children start school ready to learn. . Through our programs, we support parents in our community because we believe that family is critical to the success and well being of every child. Our intensive services range from Baby Sign, where you can teach your baby to communicate before he/she can talk, to group parenting classes where you can learn how other parents incorporate learning into the routines of daily life. Our programs and services are all based on the belief that parents are children’s first and best teachers. Imprints can show you how to make the most of your child’s early learning experiences.
Imprints offers intensive parent education and support services to parents with from children birth through five years of age. We use the Parents as Teachers Born to Learn curriculum, a nationally recognized curriculum based on the most current brain research, which provides parents with information on child development and parenting strategies. Services are available in English and Spanish. The following services are included as part of Imprints:
Home VisitsFamilies enrolled in Imprints receive monthly home visits from certified parent educators. The Parents as Teachers curriculum is used to share well-researched child development and parent support information. During the home visit, the parent educator talks with parents and shares activities with them and their children to stimulate child growth and development.
Group Meetings
Imprints offers group meetings on discipline, kindergarten readiness, and other parent-requested topics. Group meetings provide the opportunity for parents to share common parenting concerns and issues in a setting facilitated by a trained parent educator.
Assessments and Screenings
Imprints offers screenings of children’s overall health, hearing, and vision. Parent educators can use the Ages and Stages developmental screening tool as an interactive activity involving parent and child.
Referrals
Parent educators with Imprints can help families access early intervention and community resources. The parent educator supports parents through the referral process.
Teacher Consultation
Imprints works with licensed child care programs, More-at-Four, Head Start and Title I classrooms to facilitate parent-teacher communication and provide teacher training on a variety of subjects.
Imprints Cares
Imprints also offers a high quaity, competitively priced, before and afterschool program called Imprints Cares. Imprints Cares provides children with a smooth transition to and from the classroom. During the program, Imprints implements developmentally approprite practices through center-based play. Children engage in age-appropriate activities and interact with staff and peers to promote optimal social and emotional develoment. All children are supervised by on-site teachers and teacher assistants, and Imprints provides a nutritious, healthy snack.
Parents who send their children to Imprints Cares feel confident that they are cared for by the same knowledgeable staff who teach them during school hours. Schools benefit from positive feedback from satisfied parents and additional opportunities for their staff. Both parents and schools enjoy the benefits of homework time at school with hands-on teaching support.
For more information visit their web site.
For nearly forty years Imprints has worked to serve families with babies and young children in our community.
Through home visits and group meetings parents and their children receive the necessary support and education for healthy pregnancy and birth outcomes, early developmental screenings to catch delays and continued educational support to help children start school ready to learn. . Through our programs, we support parents in our community because we believe that family is critical to the success and well being of every child. Our intensive services range from Baby Sign, where you can teach your baby to communicate before he/she can talk, to group parenting classes where you can learn how other parents incorporate learning into the routines of daily life. Our programs and services are all based on the belief that parents are children’s first and best teachers. Imprints can show you how to make the most of your child’s early learning experiences.
Imprints offers intensive parent education and support services to parents with from children birth through five years of age. We use the Parents as Teachers Born to Learn curriculum, a nationally recognized curriculum based on the most current brain research, which provides parents with information on child development and parenting strategies. Services are available in English and Spanish. The following services are included as part of Imprints:
Home VisitsFamilies enrolled in Imprints receive monthly home visits from certified parent educators. The Parents as Teachers curriculum is used to share well-researched child development and parent support information. During the home visit, the parent educator talks with parents and shares activities with them and their children to stimulate child growth and development.
Group Meetings
Imprints offers group meetings on discipline, kindergarten readiness, and other parent-requested topics. Group meetings provide the opportunity for parents to share common parenting concerns and issues in a setting facilitated by a trained parent educator.
Assessments and Screenings
Imprints offers screenings of children’s overall health, hearing, and vision. Parent educators can use the Ages and Stages developmental screening tool as an interactive activity involving parent and child.
Referrals
Parent educators with Imprints can help families access early intervention and community resources. The parent educator supports parents through the referral process.
Teacher Consultation
Imprints works with licensed child care programs, More-at-Four, Head Start and Title I classrooms to facilitate parent-teacher communication and provide teacher training on a variety of subjects.
Imprints Cares
Imprints also offers a high quaity, competitively priced, before and afterschool program called Imprints Cares. Imprints Cares provides children with a smooth transition to and from the classroom. During the program, Imprints implements developmentally approprite practices through center-based play. Children engage in age-appropriate activities and interact with staff and peers to promote optimal social and emotional develoment. All children are supervised by on-site teachers and teacher assistants, and Imprints provides a nutritious, healthy snack.
Parents who send their children to Imprints Cares feel confident that they are cared for by the same knowledgeable staff who teach them during school hours. Schools benefit from positive feedback from satisfied parents and additional opportunities for their staff. Both parents and schools enjoy the benefits of homework time at school with hands-on teaching support.
For more information visit their web site.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Local Specials
Gazoodles is having a 20% off sale on all Christmas apparel...it is a great time to buy for this year or next!
Spooneez and Mom Agenda are still offering free shipping so if you are buying gifts you can have them sent directly to your friends and family. These make make great gifts!
Westgate Dermatology and Laser is having some holiday specials as well.
And don't forget the other special offers for readers of Kidding Around In Town from Myself Belts and Winston-Salem Foot solutions
Spooneez and Mom Agenda are still offering free shipping so if you are buying gifts you can have them sent directly to your friends and family. These make make great gifts!
Westgate Dermatology and Laser is having some holiday specials as well.
And don't forget the other special offers for readers of Kidding Around In Town from Myself Belts and Winston-Salem Foot solutions
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Great Gift Ideas for the Holiday Season
My friend at The Good Stuff Guide has complied this great list of gifts for "The Hostess with the Mostest" which I actually think would make really neat Holiday gifts as well. She has out a lot of time into making this list so please take a look!
School is out but work is not!
What to do? Well, here in the Piedmont Triad there are a number of options.
Salem Gym is offering a Holiday Gym Camp which will cover Dec 21-23 and then start back up on Dec 28 and end on the 30. The camps start at 9:00 am and end at 5:00 and if you can find a way to manage the times it looks like a lot of fun!
Salem Gym is offering a Holiday Gym Camp which will cover Dec 21-23 and then start back up on Dec 28 and end on the 30. The camps start at 9:00 am and end at 5:00 and if you can find a way to manage the times it looks like a lot of fun!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Holiday Travel With Kids
I will say that the airlines do make travelling with children as easy as they can. What I am going to share is my personal experience and may or may not be what you experience at the airport. None-the-less these are things that I wish someone would have told me before I flew!
You can take as much in the way of solid food as you want so load up on goldfish and any other solid food snacks that you want.
You cannot take liquids unless you have a baby who is breastfeeding or getting formula. If your baby is less than a year old then the TSA are very nice and allow you to take whatever the baby needs in the way of breast milk, formula and baby food.
You can transport a breast pump but not breast milk unless the baby is present when you are traveling.
Don’t forget to take the car seats that you will need when you arrive at your destination. I have a special bag to put them in and it has been awesome. The airlines are not supposed to charge you for checking-in car seats which is something I wish I knew when we flew out of Greensboro on Delta in October. The person checking us in knew that they were car seats and sadly she charged us the fee anyway. On our way back at the curbside check-in in Dallas the man who worked with us made sure that we did not get charged.
Take an unbrella stroller! It is easy to stowe on board an airplane and well worth having it!
Scented dirty diaper bags are a life saver if you are staying in close quarters with other people and have a baby in diapers.
This portable pack-n-play type “Phil and Teds” has really been very useful for us over the years since it folds up much smaller than the other pack-n- plays and weighs next to nothing.
Buy one of these fold-up toilet seats and put it in your carry-on bag. You will be glad you did if you have a little one who is independent in toileting!
I also found a nice article containing tips for what to take for kids to snack on while you travel so you may want to check this blog out. There is a lot of other helpful information about flying with kids on this site as well.
The last thing I will say is relax! The lines will be long, there will be a lot of people and conditions will be right to make for a stressful time but keep your cool. Your family will thank you!
You can take as much in the way of solid food as you want so load up on goldfish and any other solid food snacks that you want.
You cannot take liquids unless you have a baby who is breastfeeding or getting formula. If your baby is less than a year old then the TSA are very nice and allow you to take whatever the baby needs in the way of breast milk, formula and baby food.
You can transport a breast pump but not breast milk unless the baby is present when you are traveling.
Don’t forget to take the car seats that you will need when you arrive at your destination. I have a special bag to put them in and it has been awesome. The airlines are not supposed to charge you for checking-in car seats which is something I wish I knew when we flew out of Greensboro on Delta in October. The person checking us in knew that they were car seats and sadly she charged us the fee anyway. On our way back at the curbside check-in in Dallas the man who worked with us made sure that we did not get charged.
Take an unbrella stroller! It is easy to stowe on board an airplane and well worth having it!
Scented dirty diaper bags are a life saver if you are staying in close quarters with other people and have a baby in diapers.
This portable pack-n-play type “Phil and Teds” has really been very useful for us over the years since it folds up much smaller than the other pack-n- plays and weighs next to nothing.
Buy one of these fold-up toilet seats and put it in your carry-on bag. You will be glad you did if you have a little one who is independent in toileting!
I also found a nice article containing tips for what to take for kids to snack on while you travel so you may want to check this blog out. There is a lot of other helpful information about flying with kids on this site as well.
The last thing I will say is relax! The lines will be long, there will be a lot of people and conditions will be right to make for a stressful time but keep your cool. Your family will thank you!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Triad Restaurant Week
My favorite! This is an awesome time to go out to eat with your hubbie and/or best girl friend! Restaurant week is the one week in the entire year that you can eat at your favorite restaurants in the Piedmont Triad and still be able to afford a sitter for the kiddos! During Triad Restaurant week you can eat a 3 course fixed price menu for $20-$30 at some of my most favorite restaurants like Marisol, Mozelle's, Bernardin's and 1703 to name a few! Please go out to eat not only for your own sanity but also to show support for restaurant week and your own local businesses! Have fun!
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