W H A T ' S N E W
May 25, 2008
Parenting From Your Heart
Kelowna
Are you yearning to enrich your relationship with your child? Longing to transform power struggles and conflict into cooperation and connection? This Nonviolent Communication (NVC) workshop for parents and anyone who works with children will explore how to:
* Look deeply past a child's difficult behaviours to discover
the underlying needs
* Learn concrete tools to respond compassionately and
effectively to parenting challenges, in ways that are most likely to be heard
* Create a relationship with your child based on cooperation and trust
* Transform your understanding of boundaries and limits
* Embody your long-term parenting values in your daily interactions
* Keep your bond with your child strong from the toddler years to teens
* Reconnect when things are tough
Sunday, May 25, 2008
9:30am to 4pm (includes LUNCH and SNACKS)
ADDRESS: Holiday Park Resort, 1- 415 Commonwealth Road, Kelowna, BC
Cost: $125 per person, $225 per couple
To register: EMAIL Mary Ellen McNaughton (maryellenmc@gmail.com)
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May 29, 2008
The Language of Assessment: It's All About Children and Families
This conference is sponsored by Early Childhood Educators of BC in partnership with the CHILD Project, HELP, the Infant Development Program of BC and others. For event flyer please visit http://www.ecebc.ca/events/files/conference2008/08_UBC_Flyer.pdf
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Early Childhood Educator Incentive Program
MCFD is piloting two new incentive programs to recruit early childhood educators: a student loan assistance program for recently graduated early childhood educators and an incentive program for trained early childhood educators to return to the child care sector. For full details and application information please visit the Ministry's child care website at www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/childcare/
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The 16th International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference: Practice, Research, Theory, Policy takes place at the University of Victoria, June 3 - 6, 2008.
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education presents us with different experiences, points of contradiction, moments of tension, and different ways to conceptualize spaces of possibility in early education and child care. This conference will provide a forum for teachers/caregivers, researchers, advocates, policymakers, families, children, and other practitioners to explore the spaces connecting different traditions of research, theory, practice and policy within early childhood education and child care, as well as childhood studies. What can we learn by speaking across, within, and through different traditions of practice, theory, research, and policies in ways that will illuminate alliances and allies, coalitions, meeting points, and `sameness' while also leaving spaces for `difference'? How can we bridge difference while also acknowledging the critical importance of critique and difference that this conference brings to dialogue in early education and child care as well as childhood studies work? Visit www.mairecorp.com/RECE for more information.
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Heads Up!
New Child Care Licensing Regulations Out!
In November, the B.C. Ministry of Health completed the renewal of the Child Care Licensing Regulation. This is important for all of you who have a licensed program/facility. The most notable change is that prescriptive rules are replaced with outcome-based regulations for matters that don't negatively impact health and safety. To view the new regulations, go to:
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/ccf/child/index.html.
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