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Child Guidance

The Watertown (MA) Family Network creates a community for mothers who may not have anyone to ask questions about their infants and toddlers. As the video's narrator stated, "There are no roadmaps to raising children." With the Network, which is free and provides resources such as a new mom support group, parents do not need to feel as if they are all alone with this rewarding, but challenging, job of raising a child.

Epstein (2009) suggests there are five types of family engagement: childrearing, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, and representing other families. A comprehensive family involvement plan can be developed by choosing several of these types.

In the church-based childcare center where I worked, as with the Watertown Network, staff helped parents who had questions about what they should do at home. This center was in a military community where many young mothers were away from their own mothers and extended family and felt they had no one to ask. Sometimes it was apparent mothers did not know how to play with their young children. They knew they should not put the children in front of television all day, but they did not know what else to do. We would invite mothers to watch some of the games and activities their children enjoyed at the center.

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We told the mothers how they could adapt these same activities at home.

To communicate with parents, we did several things. We created a weekly newsletter that provided information about the theme and the activities for the week. On the back of the newsletter, we suggested activities parents could do at home. For example, we might include a simple recipe for Play-Doh that moms could make. We also created a Facebook page so parents could see photographs and videos of their children. It was particularly appreciated by parents who were deployed overseas; they felt they did not miss nearly so much in the lives of their young children.

We welcomed parent volunteers at the center. It is always good to have some extra hands when there are little ones around. Volunteering showed mothers (and, on occasion, fathers) the kinds of activities and learning that take place on a typical day. They could copy some of these ideas at home. It also gave them something to talk about with their children. Instead of an open-ended question such as "What did you do at school today?" (which young children often have difficulty answering), the question could be more direct: "Tell me what you liked about working in the garden today."

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