The Bernard L. Pacella, MD Parent Child Center

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Helpful factors in Parent Child Groups

Mothers come to our Parent Child Groups to learn more about parenting, understand developmental events, and learn how to understand their children and interact more effectively with them. They come to us with worries about themselves, their children, and their parenting skills. There are two general factors that we have found central for the effectiveness of our parent child groups for helping mothers, especially new mothers, mother their children more successfully:

The bonding of new mothers with one another

The relationship to the group leader: a critical helpful element

The effectiveness of the work of the early childhood staff

Helping parents understand the centrality of play for children

Education of parents about development

Helping parents incorporate useful approaches to infants and toddlers

Helping mothers with their attunement to their babies

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