Parent Child Center NYC

Prepare your child for Nursery School - Side by Side play group.

Join a spring semester group for mothers and toddlers aged 18 months to 2 years. A children’s socialization group, led by a child development team, runs alongside a professionally led mothers’ discussion group in the same room. No more than six mother-child pairs participate in each group, ensuring a cohesive and intimate setting. The group meets on Mondays from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. Call or e-mail Alice Rosenman LCSW, MS at (212) 665-6309, alice@theparentchildcenter.org, for more information or to sign up.

New mothers group starting for mothers with babies under one year old.

The group meets once a week on Tuesday, from 11:00-12:00. Call or e-mail Alice Rosenman LCSW, MS at (212) 665-6309, alice@theparentchildcenter.org, for more information or to sign up.

Mothers' Groups Now Enrolling

We are now accepting new members for our mother support groups. The groups are held in our brightly lit play room (pictured right). They are intimate, professionally led and are run parallel to supervised play for your children. Contact us today to find out if our groups are the right fit for you and your child.

Developmental Dialogues: 3-to-6 one-to-one meetings with developmental specialists

The Pacella Parent Child Center offers parents with children, aged birth through twelve, an opportunity to discuss the inevitable developmental stresses that arise during child rearing. Parents meet one-to-one with developmental specialists who have long experience working with children and their families. Learn more...

Ongoing Challenges of Parenting

Motherhood requires almost perpetual adjustment to your child's needs. It can often seem that just as you get used to dealing with one aspect of your child's development, he or she is on to the next. In our articles, we share with you common questions and concerns of mothers about their child's development in a variety of areas. We also write about the issues and approaches involved in our helping mother-child pairs successfully move through the many stages of ongoing development.

"They understood my daughter as a person and as a personality and a lot of the insights they had about her, or the observations that they made, ended up being relevant now ten years later."

Contact our program coordinator Alice Rosenman MS, LCSW (212-665-6309 / alice@theparentchildcenter.org) to learn more about our brief consultations (Developmental Dialogues), short term groups and our long term mother support groups.

This website provides general educational information for parents and professionals. It is not intended to provide information about diagnosis and/or treatment. Questions about individual situations should be addressed to your healthcare professional.