Healthy Families Series

As you know, in addition to sending you high-quality books each month, we want to share other valuable information with you. Thanks to the support of the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation, we are able to provide a series of virtual presentations on health topics of interest to our Imagination Library families. We hope you find these sessions and the accompanying resources helpful.

Reducing Stress with Music Therapy How Proper Nutrition Supports Brain Health How Physical Activity Impacts Brain Health COVID-19 Vaccines and Young Children Help Your Child Sleep Well So You Can Too A Guide to Your First Year as a Parent A Guide to Parenting a Toddler Money talks- Budgeting & Credit Staying Safe This Summer Born to Talk: Speech and Language Development During a Child’s First 5 Years Growing Together: A Guide to Parenting a Preschooler Tips for a Successful Kindergarten Year Behavior Chat: Stop the Meltdown Before it Starts!MAKING SENSE OF CHILDREN’S EMOTIONS Learn the Signs. Act Early for Your Young Child’s Healthy Development Yoga for the Family

Reducing Stress With Music Therapy

This video will teach you how you and your child(ren) can use music to de-stress and find peace and joy. This video will also feature advice and accessible strategies for adding music into daily life, followed by other suggestions from Dr. Miller to support the whole family.

Destressing with music FREE guided audio meditations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep5MEtH-uC8&t=4s

How Proper Nutrition Supports Brain Development

This video features a presentation and Q & A with Dr. David Miller of University Hospitals. This video talks about how you can use nutrition to improve your child’s brain and immunity.

67 Nutrient-dense meals for winter 15 Nutrient-dense recipes for weight loss Easy, lazy, nutrient-dense meals Healthy energy-dense meals for kids 15 plant-based nutrient-dense meals for children Nutrient-dense recipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcwZnkhk0Pg&t=2s

How Physical Activity Impacts Brain Health

This video features a presentation and Q & A with Kelly Satola MS, RDN, LD, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who provides wellness services, medical nutrition therapy, and community programs at Neighborhood Family Practice.

Courage to caregivers tool kit Self-care tips How to create a self care plan How to get unstuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4P6KMXJMw&t=2316s

COVID-19 Vaccines and Young Children

We’re guessing you may have questions now that the COVID vaccine is available for children under age 5. We’re pleased to offer this opportunity for you to learn from some experts, including MetroHealth pediatrician Dr. Candis Platt-Houston and UH Rainbow’s Dr. Amy Edwards.

To schedule an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine, please call MetroHealth at 216-778-6100. There are several vaccine slots available for young children, please note that you do not have to be a MetroHealth patient to receive this service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxsRNhkPuw

Help Your Child Sleep Well So You Can Too

Good sleep is essential to healthy brain development, learning, and well-being. Learn how to foster healthy sleep habits in your little ones from Cleveland Clinic sleep expert, Catrina Litzenburg, Ph.D.

Pediatric Sleep Council Society of Behavioral Sleep American Academy of Sleep Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkVodAJvr8

A Guide to Your First Year as a Parent

Understanding your child’s developmental milestones is helpful so have invited Cleveland Clinic pediatrician, Dr. Gina Robinson to help explain the milestones for your infant and detail activities that you can do with your baby at each stage.

https://youtu.be/tCvNN3hLZro

A Guide to Parenting a Toddler

INFORMATION ON TODDLER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ARTICLES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY ARTICLES ON SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Empower your child for potty mastery Psychological complexities of potty training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M032Magr8A&t=1s

https://youtu.be/9thmt7nUuys

Money talks- Budgeting & Credit

Staying Safe This Summer

Learn essential water safety measures, car seat tips, and more. Protect your family and have a worry-free season ahead.

Water Safety Resources:

• Water Safety Tips: https://buff.ly/2Ju6Nkn

• Pool & Spa Safety: https://buff.ly/2L4WXXO

• 5 Layers of Protection: https://buff.ly/3NgN33D

• Toys vs. Coast Guard-Approved PFDs: https://buff.ly/3NtaAgC

• Different types of life jackets: https://buff.ly/3FY9a9S

• Making sure your life jacket fits properly: https://buff.ly/3NtaAx8.

General Safety:

• Safe Kids Worldwide: https://buff.ly/3NtVGa7

• CDC Heads Up: https://buff.ly/42ZwvSg

• Sun Safety: https://buff.ly/42XD5ZQ

• Insect Safety: https://buff.ly/3NNloYo

• Air Quality: https://buff.ly/3pgDzMS

Car Seat Resources:

• UH Rainbow Car Seat Program

o Monday – Friday 9 am-4 pm

o By appointment only: 216.844.2277

This engaging session will provide parents with valuable insights and practical strategies to support children’s language skills during the critical early years from birth to age 5.

Featuring a presentation and Q & A with Dr. Rebecca Mental who is the director of Speech, Language, and Learning Services at Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center.

Growing Together: A Guide to Parenting a Preschooler

This is the eighth program in a series brought to you by The Literacy Cooperative and Imagination Library, who are pleased to offer tips on various health topics that will be interesting and helpful to your family.

Tips for a Successful Kindergarten Year

The transition to kindergarten is a big milestone for all children and families. This presentation includes helpful tips to manage this exciting transition and experience! Learn more about Starting Point and the services they offer to all families in the community to help find childcare, preschool, and out-of-school time services. Featuring a presentation and Q & A with Jasmine Price, M.Ed. from Starting Point.

Behavior Chat: Stop the Meltdown Before it Starts!

This video will teach you how to use behavior tools to help your child manage emotions. For caregivers of children ages 18 months to 6 years with or without developmental concerns. Connecting for Kids has provided a PDF of the Behavior Toolkit here, which is designed with expertise from early childhood professionals to help you succeed in those “tricky areas” of childhood behavior.

Behavior Toolkit

Making Sense of Children’s Emotions

Featuring a presentation and Q & A with Joan Morgenstern from Senders Pediatrics. Gain insight into the roller coaster of children’s emotions, providing you with tools to navigate this emotional journey, and helping you feel more in control and better equipped to respond with empathy and understanding.

Learn the Signs. Act Early for Your Young Child’s Healthy Development

This engaging session will provide an overview of the CDC’s Milestone Tracker app, which is free to download on any smartphone or tablet and covers developmental milestones from birth to age 5.

Recommended Books

Miss Fox’s Class Shapes Up – Eileen Spinelli

Monsters Move – Juliana O’Neill

Elephants Cannot Dance! – Mo Williams

Duck on a Bike

Fred and Ted Go Camping

From Head to Toe

This is How We stay Healthy: for kids going to preschool

Be Well! a Hero’s Guide to a Healthy Mind and Body

How to Walk an Ant

Bad Kitty Joins the Team

Children’s Books on Summer Safety Topics recommended by the UH Rainbow Injury Prevention team

Water Safety:

Picture Books:

Kids Don’t Float: Water Safety by Sherrie Giddens
A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me: Water Safety for Kids (and Dragons) by Jean Pendziwol
When You Can Swim by Jack Wong
Clifford Takes a Swim by Norman Bridwell
Safety Around Water by Mary Lee Knowlton
Help I Can’t Swim: A Story About Safety in Water by Cindy Leaney
The Polar Bear Who Couldn’t, Wouldn’t Swim by Karen and Brian Cohn

Bike Safety: