events/speakers
Get information on parent education events, community outreach projects, and special visits/performances going on at the Family Resource Center.
Parent Events
Be sure to mark your calendars for:
Parent Education Event: Fostering Kindness in Young Children
Wednesday, May 8th 9:00–10:30am in the Redwood Room
Kindness is at the heart of what makes for a meaningful life. How do we instill kindness in small children so that they can grow up to be wonderful adults? What are they capable of, and at what ages? What can we as parents do at home to help foster our children’s kind behavior?
In this talk, Dr. Muffie Waterman, author of Wired to Listen: What Kids Learn from What We Say, shares research and practical tips for how we can help our young children embrace kindness. Walk away with new insights and easy things to start doing today.
All are welcome: Invite your friends and family to hear this important message. Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served.
Please register via this link (or you can send an email) so that we know you are coming. Questions? Please contact, Bryn Stuebner at Brynstuebner@laumc.org.
Community Outreach
The Children’s Center is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of all children in our greater community. In a typical year, we strive to participate in 4–5 philanthropic activities that will be meaningful and approachable for the preschoolers. We believe that nurturing community service is an important and fundamental value for all children. In recent years, we participated in the following activities:
• Project Night Night — We collected gently used and new books to help support children in shelters.
• Community Services Agency — We collected over 400lbs of food during our Halloween Hoot Festivities. We have also supported CSA with our "Socktober" sock drive to assist homeless people.
• Ecumenical Hunger Program in East Palo Alto — During the holidays we collected new pairs of pajamas to help make some children's Christmases a bit more magical.
• There With Care — We collected thousands of diapers to support families with critically ill children.
• In the Spring we collected books for Help One Child & The Creative Montessori Learning Center of East Palo Alto.
Special Visits & Performances
Here at the Children’s Center we strive to make each day colorful and fun! To meet this goal, we delight in scheduling special events for the preschoolers. Some of our favorite special events have included:
• Interactive Author Visits — Such as Christie Matheson, the author of Touch the Magic Tree and Touch the Brightest Star
• Jump Rope Performers — Our preschoolers were literally jumping with joy as they watched the Stanford Jump Rope Team perform their amazing jump rope feats!
• Special Dance Performances — Greene School of Irish Dance on St. Patrick's Day and a Cinco de Mayo performance by the Los Altos High School’s Latino Student Union Dancers. What a blessing to experience music and dancing from different cultures!
• An amazing Bubble Performance — by Sterling Johnson, The Bubblesmith
Contact
If you have questions about an event, contact brynstuebner@laumc.org.
