Child & Caregiver Classes
Our Newborn, Baby & Me, and Toddler & Me Classes offer valuable early learning and socialization opportunities in a secure and nurturing environment. These classes are designed for children from newborns to toddlers, and they encourage active participation with their dedicated caregivers.
Benefits of our Child & Caregiver Classes:
Early learning activities tailored to each age group
Opportunities for socialization and interaction
Safe and nurturing environment for children
Engagement and bonding with caregivers
Join us to create lasting memories with your little one while fostering their development. Our Child & Caregiver Classes provide an enriching experience for both children and their caregivers!
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Fairy-Tale Tea Time (Weekly Class)
Ages: 1-5 years
Days: Thursdays
Time: 9:15-10:00am
Bring the whole family for a fantastic fairy tale adventure! Dress up in your finest tiaras, top hats, crowns, or fairy wings while you listen to your favorite fantasy stories, sip hot chocolate out of the tiniest of teacups, and do themed activities, play games and/or create crafts with your kiddo(s)!
Build a giant with Jack
Make magic wands with Sleeping Beauty's fairy godmothers
Pin the crown on the Frog Prince
Make your very own pirate hat and eye patch
Each week has a different fun theme for your family to enjoy. Join us for this fanciful fairy tale experience!
This class only: Special Family Rate $18 per family or use class pack.
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NEW Speech & Language (Weekly Class)
Ages: 1-3 years
Days: Mondays
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 am
Join Kelly McClintock, MS, CCC-SLP, for strategies that you can use at home to help your child build a strong language foundation for life. Each class will include hands-on parent-child activities.
Speech and Language will have a rotating weekly theme:
Readying the Land: Design a Space That Fosters Language - Ever wonder how to design a room and home that promotes your child’s language and cognitive development? Come learn about this and more as we spend some time at the intersection of design and development.
Readying Ourselves: How Regulation is the Key to Our Baby’s Learning - Did you know that before we learn, we must first be regulated? We’ll explore how children begin building their nervous system and what ingredients are necessary for optimal development.
Pouring the Foundation: Fostering Pre-Verbal Skills - Get an overview of how this process works and learn strategies that you can use at home to help your child build a strong language foundation for life.
Raising the Barn: The importance of Language and How to Foster it - In this class, learn to use simple habits and strategies around your home to encourage understanding of language and later expression.
Raising the Roof: Articulation - Learn what “typical” development looks like from sound play to when your child should have their “r” and lots in between.
Weatherproofing: Learning to Manage Challenging Behaviors - Come join this class on navigating tricky parenting moments and learn tools to promote healthy approaches for both parent and child.
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NEW Navigating 4th Trimester (Weekly Class)
Age: 0-3 months
Day: Thursdays
Time: 12:15 - 1:00 pm
Navigating the 4th Trimester: for moms who are in the 3 month postpartum period
Each class will:
explore a specific challenge area of early parenting
explain the evidence-based “why” behind each situation
share strategies for coping
discuss techniques for appropriately and respectfully caring for Baby
As Courtney facilitates Navigating The 4th Trimester, parents will get questions answered, gain confidence in parenting abilities, and develop a network of support.
Your infant is welcome to attend class with you! It is expected that babies may cry, need soothing, and feeding throughout the class. That’s okay! Please take care of your baby’s needs. Don't know what your baby's needs are? That's okay too; Courtney will help you interpret Baby's cues.
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Tummy Time with a PT (Weekly Class)
Ages: 0 - 6 months
Day: Thursdays
Time: 11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Join Dr. Allison Chisholm, PT, DPT, and owner of The Moving Peanut, for a fun filled playgroup!
What you can expect:
age-appropriate activities for your baby
Handling techniques to help with your little one’s movement
Connection with other parents who have babies of similar ages
Open Q&A with a pediatric PT
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NEW Cruisers & Crawlers (Weekly Class)
Ages: 7-12 months
Day: Fridays
Time: 10:15 - 11:00 am
Join Dr. Allison Chisholm, PT, DPT, and owner of The Moving Peanut, for a fun filled playgroup!
What you can expect:
Pre-crawling skills including transitions and tummy time movement
Identifying crawling red flags and how to help
Discussion of post-crawling skills, including pulling to stand, standing at a surface, and side stepping
Get your gross motor questions answered by a pediatric PT!
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Sing, Sign & Play (Weekly Class)
Ages: Sitting up to 3 years
Day: Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays
Time: Mondays at 10:15a for Ages 18m-3 yrs; Tuesdays at 10:15a for ages in lap-18m; Thursdays at 9:15a for ages sitting-3 yrs
SSP is a fun, interactive class for you and your little one! From this class you can expect:
- A fun introduction of a circle time for your little one! You and your child will learn Sign Language paired with songs. Each week we will introduce new signs (keep your eye out for Reliefs IG/FB posts about each weeks topics).
-Big body movement while dancing with scarves and popping bubbles.
- Practicing skills such as stopping our body, object permanence and labeling body parts while using shaker eggs.
Attending SSP is a great way to meet other parents and make new friends!
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NEW Family Yoga (Monthly Class)
Ages: All ages
Days: Saturdays, January 6th, February 10th, March 2nd, April 6th, May 4th, & June 1st
Time: 9:15-10:00 am
Family Yoga for family members to attend class together. Join Krista Maltais, owner of Relief Parenting for this 45 minute yoga class the whole family can enjoy. Krista will guide you and your family through a series of fun poses for everyone! No previous yoga experience is necessary.
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NEW Baby & Me Barre
Ages: non-mobile babies
Day: Thursdays
Time: 10:15 - 11:00 am
This class is designed for caregivers and their non-mobile babies. We will focus on reconnecting your core, balance, and strength. This will be a nourishing environment to feed, change, and connect with your baby while socializing with other moms and moving your body.
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Baby & Me Bootcamp (6-Week Series)
Ages: Newborn - 2 years
Day: Tuesdays, January 9th - February 13th
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 am
Join Kin Fitness at Relief Parenting for a baby friendly workout session! Where else can you get giggles during gym time? Babies and toddlers will love spending time with their grownup while you release some stress and get a full body workout.
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Baby & Me Yoga (Weekly Class)
Ages: 6 week to pre-walking
Day: Mondays
Time: 10:15 - 11:00 am
Watch your pre-walker develop body awareness, better digestion, longer sleep, and a deepened attachment to you through yoga! This class combines gentle massage and movement with fun songs and age-appropriate activities.
Baby & Me Yoga also offers caregivers poses to relieve neck, shoulder, and back pain, opportunities to socialize, and provides an advice-free, non-judgmental, supportive community. Guided discussions will deepen caregiver’s understanding of infant development and cues. No previous yoga experience is necessary.
Please bring a baby blanket and a small, non-electronic, toy. Dress yourself and baby comfortably for gentle movement.
It is expected that babies may cry, need soothing, and feeding throughout the class. That’s okay! Please take care of your baby’s needs.
Registration FAQs
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Cost: Cost: $18 for a single class or choose a class package option: $64 4-class pack or $112 8-class pack. Please note, when purchasing a class package, you must use it in a certain amount of time (ex. 4 & 8 class packages have to be used within 6 weeks).
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Cost varies by instructor and range from $96-$120.
These classes require a six week commitment. Once you sign up for the first class you will be automatically enrolled for 6 weeks. If you cannot make it for a class you will not be able to transfer your registration to another week.
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Siblings are always welcome at classes! If they are mobile or are old enough to participate, we ask that you either register both children or utilize our on-premise childcare. If you are interested in signing more than one child up for a class, please email us at info@reliefparenting.com and we can register with the sibling discount rate of $16, or feel free to make use of our 4 and 8 class packages.
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If you have signed up for the class, we ask that if you need to, please cancel 12 hours prior to the class in order to give people on the waitlist the opportunity to join. If you cancel at least 12 hours prior, the class fee will be kept in your account to be used on a later date of your choosing. If you cancel less than 12 hours prior, or if you fail to show, you will be charged for the class. That amount cannot be transferred to another class. Please email or call us with questions or concerns.
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We ask that there be a minimum of 2 participant sign-ups in order to run this class. If the minimum is not met you will be notified via the email you provide on MINDBODY. Your payment will be kept in your account to be used towards another class. Registration for these classes will close two hours prior to the start if the minimum is not met.
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Preregistration of classes is highly recommended. Our classes fill up quickly and we can’t guarantee a spot will be available for drop-ins. Please call before coming to the center to check drop-in availability.
If the class is full, you can join the wait-list. When a spot opens up you will automatically be added from the wait-list and be notified via email and/or text (please check your opt in notifications via your Mindbody account.)
“...(I) wanted to thank you and your staff for truly being a highlight of my maternity leave. We don’t have a local support system, so finding your center and classes helped me feel connected to a community and welcome from our first experience. The other families we met were so kind. I learned a lot sharing experiences with them, and really feel I gained confidence as a parent going to the weekly classes. (We) will be back soon!”