About the sessions
Hearing health
Presented by Audiometry Nurse, Bronwyne Radford from
Kaleidoscope Community Health. Bronwyne will take parents
through typical hearing development, alarm bells for hearing
concern, ways of identifying potential hearing loss, as well as
what to do should you have any concerns.
Rockabye Music is exercise for a baby’s brain!
Did you know babies are memorising sounds and songs from
20 weeks in the womb? Engagement in music is shown to
ignite more parts of the brain than any other activity! Learn how
music can assist your child to learn music, language, number,
coordination, memory and other lifelong learning skills. You don’t
need any music knowledge it’s suitable for everyone!
Save the date
Coming up
13 October - Speech screening
14 October - Grandparents as carers
Visit www.lakemac.com.au/playtime
to get your copy of the next program.
Staying in control
Developing positive behaviour management strategies with your
children can be difficult at the best of times; but even more so
when you don’t feel calm and in control. Behavioural therapist
Naomi Richards will provide you with a framework that will
ensure your whole family is in control of their emotions and their
behaviour.
School readiness
Are you considering sending your child to school next year?
Unsure if your child is school ready? Or simply after some extra
hints for preparing your children for school in the coming years?
Kim Marony, Acting Principal of St Josephs Merewether, will
discuss with parents what really helps children be school-ready,
so they get the best start to their schooling life.
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Talks and workshops
for families
June-September 2015
Thankyou to our sponsors
Yoga tales
Combine books with yoga and what do kids get? A complete
mind/body experience and… FUN, FUN, FUN! Your children will
connect to a stories through doing yoga poses of the characters
they read about.
Family relax yoga*
Yoga for the whole family to help relax and rejuvenate the mind
and body. These relaxing yoga poses will help your family to be
more calm, more settled, and more aware of how to manage
stress and busy lives. Suitable for everyone in the family.
Child and family Nutrition
ATUNE health centre will present on healthy eating options for
families and in particular children. Wondering what food portions
to serve your child? Not sure on ideas of what to give your
children for healthy meals and snacks? Interested in how food
impacts on your child’s behaviour? This is the session for you!
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August
June
About the sessions
Session
Date Time
Venue
Session
Life Wise
- the anxious,
nervous child
10
Cardiff Library
Babies into Books
5
9.30am
Cardiff Library
6
10-11am
Toronto Library
CPR
12
9.30am
Toronto Library
Rockabye Music
is Exercise for a
Baby’s Brain!
Family relax yoga*
18
11-noon
Woodrising
Neighbourhood
Centre
Speech information
session
11
10am
Toronto Library
Speech Screening
- individual
appointments
25
10 -11.30am
Belmont Library
Family relax yoga*
15
9.45-10.45am Woodrising
Neighbourhood
Centre
Yoga Tales
25
10.3011.30am
Swansea
Library
Speech Screening
- individual
appointments
session
19
10am
Staying in control
of behaviour
management
24
CPR
26
10.30am
July
Session
Date Time
Venue
Charlestown
Family Chiropractic
- milestones at
every age
15
Belmont Library
CPR
21
11.30am
Charlestown
Library
ATUNE - Child and
Family nutrition
22
11am-noon
Belmont Library
Family relax yoga*
23
11-noon
Woodrising
Neighbourhood
Centre
Hearing Health
for Under 5s
30
10-11am
Cardiff Library
11am-noon
Bookings for all events are essential.
Bookings can be made online at
library.lakemac.com.au/events
*Bookings for Family relax yoga to be
made through Customer service centre
on 4921 0333
Date Time
Venue
10am
10.30am
Morisset
Library
Charlestown
Library
Morisset
Library
The anxious, nervous, worrying child
Supporting your kids when they are nervous or anxious can
be tricky. Often parents can become nervous or anxious
themselves or even impatient and cross with their child.
What is anxiety? What keeps the worrying going?
What can I do to help?
Dr Victoria Clay from LifeWise will help you understand these
issues as she discusses several approaches to coping with
anxiety in children, along with tips and strategies to help parents
build confidence and resilience in their children.
CPR for parents
Do you know what to do in an emergency? Parents, learn
the latest CPR techniques and basic first aid for children and
babies. There’s a chance to practice what you learn on CPR
mannequins. Presented by Council’s Beach Lifeguards.
BIBs (Babies into Books)
Help develop your baby’s language and pre-reading skills at our
six week program for parents and babies under one year. Enjoy
and learn songs, finger-plays and rhymes you can continue to
share together at home.
Session
Date
Time
Venue
Babies into Books
Cont
Aug
5
9.30am
Cardiff Library
Speech information session
Talking is one of the most direct ways in which people
communicate with one another. What is typical development
for 2-5 years olds? How can carers support their child’s speech
development? And what can carers do if they are concerned?
Early Start Speech Pathology will discuss all these things as
well as answer any questions you might have about your own
child’s speech progress.
School readiness
2
10.30am
Charlestown
Library
Speech screening: individual appointment
For children aged 3-5 years only. Are you concerned that your
child is not talking as well as you believe they should? Do other
people have difficulty understanding your child’s speech?
Family relax yoga*
5
9.4510.45am
Woodrising
Neighbourhood
Centre
CPR
8
10.30am
Cardiff Library
CPR
10
10.30am
Swansea Library
September
Discuss your individual concerns at our free speech screening
appointments with Early Start Speech Pathology. Together, look
at your child’s speech sounds, how well they follow directions
and instructions as well as their sentence development and
grammar.
Milestones at every age
Family Chiropractic Centre Charlestown will guide parents
through the typical milestones that children should be achieving
as they grow from birth to 5 years old. Listen as Dr Felicity Cook
provides insights as to how carers can support their child’s
development to help them not only grow, but to thrive.