Parent Education

An important part of the cooperative preschool experience is parent education. By sharing information and learning from the “experts” (child development specialists, teachers, our kids, each other!), we help one another learn about parenting.

Parent Education/Meeting Credits: Attend 5 meetings (families who enter mid-year are prorated), 3 of the meetings are mandatory. Listed below are the parent education events often offered each year.

  • Fall Class Connection Meeting (MANDATORY)–early September

  • Family Potluck- late September (earn 1 credit per family)

  • Parent meeting/lecture–Fall

  • Winter Class Connection Meeting (MANDATORY)–mid January

  • Parent meeting/lecture–Winter/Spring

  • Additional meetings, book groups, or workshops may be scheduled throughout the year.

Visit the DCCNS calendar for exact dates of each parent education opportunity. Events are added throughout the year; check back regularly for updates.

You may earn educational credits by attending other parent education experiences. If you are interested in obtaining credit for another event not listed above, please email the DCCNS executive director, Liz Allewelt-Smith at dccnsdirector@gmail.com. In the email, please describe the activity for approval and once activity completed email a brief summary of your experience.

RESOURCES:

24 Hour Crisis Line for Parents

https://safeandsound.org

School Handouts

Articles

Websites

Podcasts

DCCNS Parent Library

Be sure to visit the DCCNS Parent Library, located in the snack room on the bookshelf to the right of the office. DCCNS parents may borrow any of a number of helpful books on parenting and child development from the Library. Please remember to sign them out in the Library binder. Contact librarian with any questions.

Books–many of these books available in our library

  • Anti Bias Curriculum, Tools for Empowering Young Children, NAEYC Publication. Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Three Year Old. Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Four Year Old.

  • Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Five Year Old.

  • Bos, Bev, Before the Basics.

  • Bos, Bev, Together We’re Better.

  • Brazelton, T. Berry, M.D., Toddlers and Parents, Delta Pub., N.Y., 1974.

  • Bronson, PO, and Merryman, Ashley, Nurtureshock

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  • Bredekamp, Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs, NAEYC.

  • Briggs, Dorothy, Your Child’s Self-Esteem.

  • Cherry, Claire – Many books, all are good!

  • Dreikurs, Rudolf, Children the Challenge.

  • Elkind, David, The Hurried Child.

  • Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, Siblings Without Rivalry.

  • Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk.

  • Fraiberg, Selma, The Magic Years, Scribner’s, 1959.

  • Galambos, Jeanette, A Guide to Discipline, Nat’l Assoc. for Education of Young Children, 1969.

  • Le Shan, Eda, When Your Child Drives You Crazy, St. Martin’s Press, 1985.

  • MacKenzie, Rob, Setting Limits, Prima Pub.

  • Miller, Karen, Ages and Stages.

  • Miller, Karen, More Things to do with Toddlers & Twos.

  • Miller, Karen, Things to do with Toddlers & Twos.

  • Nelson, Jane, Positive Discipline A-Z, Prima Pub.

  • Nelson, Jane, Positive Discipline, Ballantine.

  • Platt, John, Life in Family Zoo.

  • Read, Katherine, The Nursery School: A Human Relationship Laboratory, W.B. Saunders Co., 1969.

  • Taylor, Katherine Whiteside, Parent Cooperative Nursery Schools, Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity, N.Y., N.Y.

  • White, Burton L., A Parent’s Guide to the First Three Years, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.Y.,1975.