Welcome to the first edition of the Baby Steps Buzz, your source of information, announcements and program highlights of Baby Steps. If you are looking for a fun way to learn helpful parenting skills while having fun with your child, the Baby Steps program is here for you! Baby Steps provides a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment for expectant families and families with children up to age 3. Our families share with each other, learn from early childhood professionals, and receive books, crafts, diapers and wipes throughout the program year. Baby Steps also helps families connect with community resources and provided masks, food, and other essentials to those families that needed extra support as the result of the COVID-19 health emergency.

This issue features highlights of our 2020-2021 Winter Sessions which we provided remotely due to the pandemic. We are looking forward to seeing our families soon for an in-person, outdoors get-together!

Featured Books for December, January February and March. The Heart of the Baby Steps program is Early Childhood Literacy. Each child receives a book every month.

"The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.”

-National Commission on Reading

Every month Baby Steps provides families with a gift bag. Each item in the bag is carefully chosen to go along with the monthly developmental theme. All bags include step-by-step instructions on how to complete the craft with your child, along with suggestions to tailor the book and activity to your child’s developmental level. Take a peek inside! The December Bag included: cookies, icing, books, diapers, wipes, tips on safety during the winter holidays, and a high quality educational toy, generously donated by Dan and Molly McGregor, owners of Sensational Child Inc. in North Kingstown.

Ruby, making a craft heart, at 9 months old. Even our youngest children can benefit from a hands-on craft activity that increases children’s fine motor skills. Parents doing the craft together with their children promotes language development and social/emotional growth.

Levi and Mom, Melanie, working on an apple together. Each craft includes step-by-step instructions along with information on how the craft will help children to reach developmental milestones..

Levi, proudly holding his finished craft!

Reaching our families with new technology

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Baby Steps Team came up with new and exciting ways of providing service to our families. This is Sofia, watching the Baby Steps session and working on her apple!

Thank you for your continued support of the Baby Steps Program!

Your generous help and participation makes it possible for Baby Steps to provide a strong community resource to increase early childhood literacy and support family development.