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Raising children has always been stressful, but today's families face more challenges than ever before. Rising costs in the face of stagnating wages; lack of affordable, quality child care for parents who work outside the home, over-burdened healthcare systems incapable of dealing with the increase in families with children who have health related chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, and autism spectrum disorders), and fragmented communities are facts of life in the United States, which negatively affect us all.
The paths which we know help children thrive and families succeed in the midst of these challenges-strong emotional bonds with adults in a child's early years, children who enter school ready to learn and access to education, jobs that pay livable wages, affordable health care, quality child care, and thriving community support systems - are eroding faster than we can rebuild them.
Dr. Brazelton's and Dr. Sparrow's presentation will focus on the stresses parents face today and offer solutions for relieving those stresses, based on Dr. Brazelton's pioneering research on infant development and more than 60 years of listening to parents and children. They will discuss what they call the Touchpoints Approach. The Touchpoints Approach empowers parents to discover their effectiveness as parents, guiding them through their children's predictable crises to support the development of their children's self-esteem and readiness to learn, and to take on the world.
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