May 2022 - HEALTHY HABITS
Talk, Read, and Sing - Talking is Teaching
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Created by Great Lakes Bay Parents - Informing parents since 2012! |
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You are your child's lifelong teacher.
"Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing" is a public awareness and action campaign that helps parents recognize their power to boost their children’s early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions ... "
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LET'S TALK ABOUT HEALTHY HABITS!
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS! Come up with a “healthy habits” morning routine with your little one. Talk about all the things you can do each morning to help your body stay healthy and strong throughout the day. “We can stay healthy by brushing our teeth, eating a healthy breakfast, and moving our bodies! What other things can we do to stay healthy?”
Talking is Teaching has tips and resources to help parents talk to their children, even those who are very young.
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
Help your child exercise their body and brain with a fun activity! Challenge them to bend their body, arms and legs to make different shapes. Ask, “Can your body make a circle? ... a triangle?” There are so many things our bodies can do!
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Scavenger Hunt
Talking is Teaching
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
Scavenger hunts are a great activity for parents and their little one to do together. Together with your little one, search for the items below with your little one and use words to describe them. Talking about the things we see builds children’s vocabularies and their brains!
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Make Healthy Snacks as a Family
PBS for Parents
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
PBS for Parents is a wonderful resource for tips and resources to help parents talk with their little one. “Make Healthy Snacks as a Family” is a great interactive activity that allows parents to bond with their child while talking about healthy food.
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TIP Calendar
Talking is Teaching
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Simple interaction like the ones listed on the Talking is Teaching Tips calendar helps your child's brain and language development, setting them up for success in school and beyond.
Check out the HEALTHY HABITS activities on this calendar that you and your little one can do together.
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Talking is Teaching Recommended Books & Videos |
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Books are a great way to explore and talk about different aspects of HEALTHY HABITS with your young child. Snuggle up together with one of the Talking is Teaching recommended books or visit your local library to find other books about community.
Reading books and watching videos with your child is a great way to get the conversation started. Check out the book/ video recommendations from Talking Is Teaching.
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More Book & Video Resources
Visit or Contact Your Local Librarian
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Au Gres Community Library
989-876-8818
Mary Johnston Memorial Library (Standish)
989-846-6611
Omer Little Eagles Nest Library
989-653-2230
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Alice and Jack Wirt Public Library
(Bay City)
989-893-9566 ext. 2111
Auburn Area Branch Library
989-662-2381 ext. 207
Pinconning Branch Library
989-879-3283
Historical Sage Library
Bay City
989-892-8555 ext. 207
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Let’s sing about HEALTHY HABITS!
Getting enough sleep is an important part of staying healthy. Join Sesame Street’s Ernie and Burt as they sing about why sleep is amazing!
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Fostering Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children - Tips for families
Talking is Teaching
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
Children are born with the need and desire to connect with those around them. When parents and caregivers establish positive relationships with children from birth through the early years, children feel safe and secure, laying the foundation for healthy social and emotional development. This process affects how children experience the world, express themselves, manage their emotions, and establish positive relationships with others.
This Talking is Teaching TIP SHEET divided by age (infants, toddlers, and preschoolers) are intended to help parents and families support their children’s social and emotional development – nurturing children’s ability to develop healthy relationships, manage challenges and realize their full potential.
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Coping with Sleep Challenges: Birth to 3 Months
Zero to Three
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
Sleeping is an important part of staying healthy and often a challenge for parents with small children. Zero to Three offers strategies to help nurture good sleeping habits in your baby or toddler right from the start.
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Creating Routines for Love and Learning
Zero to Three
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Let’s talk about HEALTHY HABITS!
Routines are a big part of creating healthy habits.
“Routines provide the two key ingredients necessary for learning: relationships and repetition.”
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Communication is key to learning about how your child feels.
Bay County Library System's LENA Start is a FREE 10-week class for families with children ages birth to 36 months old. The goal of the program is to help parents increase talk, which encourages their babies' literacy and brain growth.
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MSU EXTENSION
Extension Extras Parenting Hour:
TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT RACE
May 17 at 8 PM
REDUCING CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS IN TODDLERS
May 24 at 8 pm
TOGETHER WE CAN - CO-PARENTING
May 31 at 8 pm
CAN COUNCIL
Make Parenting a Pleasure
Free parent support series for caregivers, parents, and grandparents of children ages 0-8.
Wednesdays | May 25th - September 7th
12-2pm | Classes held over Zoom
Register by calling 989.752.7226.
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MotherBaby Cafe - Support Group |
DATES: Every Thursday at 10 am - 12 pm
LOCATION: 4101 East Wilder Rd., Bay City
Join other mothers and their children for weekly themes, Question and Answers, and guest presenters. Meetings will be at the Bay City Town Center in the Community Room near Game Stop.
Prizes will be raffled.
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Bay-Arenac Great Start Family Network |
DATE: 1st & 3rd Wednesday at 4:30 pm.
LOCATION: 583 E. Cedar Street, Standish
Drop in for an evening of fun. Connect with other parents, and learn about upcoming events and local resources. Each family will receive a meal kit to make at home.
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Summer Reading Program Kickoff Party
Bay County Library System
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WHERE: Auburn City Park
WHEN: June 14 at 4:30 - 6:30 PM
DESCRIPTION: Let's kick off the Summer Reading Program with a party at the Auburn City Park! Join us for a truck touch, games, ice cream, and more. Then watch a dazzling magic show featuring Baffling Bill starting at 5:30!
The Auburn City Park is located off of exit 134 from US 10-W.
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STEM Passport App & Scavenger Hunt
STEM Pipeline
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A STEM-based scavenger hunt is kicking off soon in the region, aimed at getting families and kids engaged in local out-of-school-time learning activities. Organized by the Great Lakes Bay Region STEM Pipeline, the Great Lakes Bay Region STEM Passport app is a dynamic resource for parents, teachers and caregivers to access information about STEM-based activities and events in the region.
The Great Lakes Bay Region STEM Passport Scavenger Hunt starts next week on Tuesday, May 10 and runs until Saturday, June 18. There will be prizes available for the top number of check-ins on the app, as well as several prize drawings for all participants.
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FREE Summer Activity Books
Michigan Learning Chanel
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Summer is full of opportunities to play and learn and we want to make it easy to find inspiring, kid-friendly activities! That’s why we’ve worked with PBS stations and content creators from across the country to bundle up some of our favorite activities into one, easy-to-carry-anywhere book. We hope you and your kids will use this to inspire learning all summer long!
Activity Books are available to print for grades
- Preschool & Kindergarten
- 1st - 3rd Grade
- 4th - 6th Grade
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*This newsletter was supported by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5), Grant Number 90TP0055-01-0090TP0002, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
**Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Child Care, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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