[HCCN] PR: Incredible Years Babies free weekly series

[Candy Eaton]

February 22, 2011; FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE................................a pdf poster is available upon 
request
CONTACT:/Candy Eaton, Program Director
Hancock County Children's Council, a program of Downeast Health Services 
Inc.
52 Christian Ridge Road, Ellsworth, ME  04605/
/207-667-5304, ext. 261; //children at downeasthealth.org/ 
<mailto:children at downeasthealth.org>

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*"Incredible Years for Babies and Parents"*

The Downeast Children's Council, a program of Downeast Health Services, 
is pleased to announce that a new weekly series for babies and their 
parents / caregivers will begin on _Tuesday,March 22, 2011 at 
9:30am-11:00am_.If you are interested in participating in this FREE 
series, please call Candy Eaton at 667-5304 ext. 261.Pre-registration 
and some reading will be required.Everyone is welcome.

The Incredible Years programs will show some of the ways that babies 
communicate and how parents can nurture, teach and respond to their 
babies in sensitive ways that bring about their optimal social, 
emotional, physical and intellectual development.

Each week, we will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss 
and learn from each other about a specific topic specific to "The 
Incredible Years for Babies 0-12 months".Topics will include:

·"Becoming a Parent -- Getting to Know Your Baby"

·"Babies as Intelligent Language Learners"

·"Providing Physical, Tactile and Visual Stimulation for your Baby"

·"Parents Learning to Read Babies Minds"

·"Gaining Support"

·"The Emerging Sense of Self"

Babies are intelligent learners- right from the first month they are 
thinking, observing and even reasoning.They are highly attuned and 
actively working to find out about the world.Within a few days of birth 
they can discriminate human faces and voices from other sights and 
sounds.Did you know babies actually prefer the human face and human 
stimulation to anything else?Before they can even walk or talk they can 
actually tell the difference between a face that is happy, sad, or 
mad.In fact, babies seem programmed to recognize people who love them 
more clearly than anything else and they seek out human stimulation 
about all else.

Downeast Health Services Inc. seeks to support the many families in 
Hancock County with young babies.There are wide individual differences 
in the way babies handle stimuli, need for sleep and amount of 
crying.The goal for parents is not to compare but to watch for and 
listen to their own baby's unique style.Please call 667-5304 ext. 261, 
email children at downeasthealth.org <mailto:children at downeasthealth.org> 
or visit our website at www.downeasthealth.org 
<http://www.downeasthealth.org> for additional information on parenting 
classes, support groups and family resources available in Hancock County.

This series is funded by the Maine Children's Trust.  For additional 
information, visit their website at www.mechildrenstrust.org 
<http://www.mechildrenstrust.org>.

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