Home safety workshop:
This is a 45-minute workshop full of information and tips on keeping babies and children safe in the home and when out and about. In this session, the Early Years practitioners will guide you through top tips for child safety, including burns, poisoning, falls, choking and safer sleeping and more.
Toileting workshop:
This is a 45 minute workshop designed to support families through their child’s potty training journey. Through this session, Early Years Practitioner’s will provide information and guidance with: recognising and understanding the signs that your child may be ready to start potty training, when/ how to start, building a toileting routine, potty training on the go, plus many other useful factors and tips. Suitable for ages 18 months to 3 years.
Oral Health Workshop:
Virtual Oral Health Workshop for parents with children aged 0-5 years led by a Dental Nurse. The workshop will cover a number of areas to promote good oral health including tooth brushing, preventing tooth decay and infection, diet and dental visits.
Starting Solid Food Workshop:
An interactive workshop to provide information to help with understanding when and how to introduce solid foods to your baby. The Starting Solid Food Workshop which is currently being delivered virtually is aimed at parents with babies aged between 4 & 6 months. The workshop helps parents decide on a number of key questions, including; When is a baby ready to try solid food? What foods should they start with? When is a baby hungry and when have they had enough? How can you make meal times an enjoyable experience for both parent & baby?
The workshops are being run by the early years practitioners and are delivered virtually via Zoom. Parents are given useful web links where they can download resources including Start4Life’s‘Introducing solid foods’ which you can find here and First Steps Nutrition’s ‘Eating well: the first year’ which you can find here https://www.firststepsnutrition.org/
If you would like to join a workshop please e-mail childrenscentres@havering.gov.uk
