| Tuesday 02/25/2025 |
Virtual – New Moms Support Group
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Congratulations on becoming a new mom! Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you are excited, worried, overwhelmed, or overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions and build friendships with one another. Come and bring your baby along! Date: Every Tuesday Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Wednesday 02/26/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Wednesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Thursday 02/27/2025 |
Virtual – Reclaiming Joy in Motherhood Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. A large part of parenting is dealing with life’s ups and downs. Some days, things click and other days we feel like we’re simply minimizing the damage. Happiness comes in different forms and digging yourself out of a mental rut is about matching happiness to your needs. Join this interactive group of moms to explore pathways to happiness you can choose from when that little voice inside tells you it’s time to make a change. Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Monday 03/03/2025 |
Virtual – Fathering From Within
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Every Monday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free |
| Tuesday 03/04/2025 |
Virtual – New Moms Support Group
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Congratulations on becoming a new mom! Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you are excited, worried, overwhelmed, or overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions and build friendships with one another. Come and bring your baby along! Date: Every Tuesday Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Wednesday 03/05/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Wednesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Wednesday 03/05/2025 |
Virtual – Living with Strong Willed, Spirited Kids Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Parenting a child who is oppositional, defiant, or easily frustrated and angered requires knowledge and skills beyond the approaches that may work for a lot of kids. Would you like to learn parenting tools that work with your child’s personality and temperament? Rebecah Freeling is a Parenting Coach with over 20 years of experience working with strong-willed, “spirited” kids. Rebecah will share strategies and tools to help manage the challenging behaviors often displayed by strong-willed kids and she’ll inspire and encourage you too! Date: Every Wednesday Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 03/06/2025 |
Virtual – Dating as a Parent Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. For many single parents, dating is exciting and scary at the same time. On one hand, you can hardly contain your enthusiasm for your new love interest. Yet, you may be plagued with questions about when and how to introduce your kids. In time, they will see that including another person in your life is not about splitting your affections. Learn how to widen the circle of people you choose to care about and welcome into your family. Date: Thursday, March 06, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Monday 03/10/2025 |
Virtual – Fathering From Within
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Every Monday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free |
| Tuesday 03/11/2025 |
Virtual – Breathing for Rest and Rejuvenation Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Are you struggling to find time for rest? This workshop teaches breathing practices to improve sleep, energy, and mental wellbeing, the essential elements for parenting young children as well as a great model for our kids! Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Wednesday 03/12/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Wednesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Wednesday 03/12/2025 |
Virtual – Living with Strong Willed, Spirited Kids Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Parenting a child who is oppositional, defiant, or easily frustrated and angered requires knowledge and skills beyond the approaches that may work for a lot of kids. Would you like to learn parenting tools that work with your child’s personality and temperament? Rebecah Freeling is a Parenting Coach with over 20 years of experience working with strong-willed, “spirited” kids. Rebecah will share strategies and tools to help manage the challenging behaviors often displayed by strong-willed kids and she’ll inspire and encourage you too! Date: Every Wednesday Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 03/13/2025 |
Virtual – Mindful Mantras Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This workshop series introduces parents and caregivers to the foundations of Positive Discipline. We will take a deeper look at misbehavior and what children are trying to achieve with it. This approach fosters cooperation, understanding and mutual respect rather than power struggles. By the end of the series, you will have the tools that will strengthen your relationship with your child. Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Friday 03/14/2025 |
Virtual – Good Food Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. GOOD FOOD presents the basics of child nutrition including simple meal planning and cooking for and with our children! The workshop presenter’s diverse family brings cultural awareness to food preparation and understanding of the important bonds created when people eat together at home, at school, at child care and at work. Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Monday 03/17/2025 |
Virtual – Soulful Life Boundaries
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Are the lines blurred between your work, personal and family life ? In our soul-life boundaries workshop, you will learn a framework to create healthy lines around your energy and joy. Date: Monday, March 17, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Wednesday 03/19/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Wednesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Wednesday 03/19/2025 |
Virtual - Choosing Childcare Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Finding childcare for your infant, toddler or preschooler is one of the most important decisions you will make as a parent. This workshop will discuss types of care, how to screen and interview potential providers. Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Time: 10AM – 11:30AM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 03/20/2025 |
Virtual – Setting Limits: Building Closeness & Cooperation through Limits
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Are power struggles with your child leaving you frustrated and exhausted? Are you wondering why your child can’t seem to listen? Are your own frustrations spilling over at home? Every child has off-track moments—refusing to brush their teeth, being rough with the family pet, ignoring instructions, pestering their sibling. Conventional discipline techniques over smaller difficulties can sometimes escalate into mounting stress on all sides. This workshop will provide insights and strategies to help you set firm, warm limits in a way that connects you and your child and fosters cooperation in your family. Date: Every Thursday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 03/20/2025 |
Livermore – Bilingual Language Development Workshop for Parents and Caregivers
This workshop is presented by Livermore Public Library. Have you ever heard that bilingual kids learn to speak slower than monolingual kids? Join Rachel Muldoon, local bilingual speech-language pathologist (and mom of two bilingual kids), in de-bunking this and other MYTHS of bilingual language development. This workshop delves into the current research of bilingual language development and provides practical easy-to-use strategies to enhance the language development of your children. For parents and caregivers. Children welcome. Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time: 10:15AM - 11AM Location: Civic Center Library-Storyime Room, 1188 S. Livermore Ave., Livermore Cost: Free |
| Friday 03/21/2025 |
Virtual – Speech, Language Skills & Baby Sign
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a virtual interactive workshop to equip new parents, grandparents and caregivers with tools, practical tips and valuable suggestions to help your child get off to a great start with their speech and language development. Participants will also learn baby sign language which is helpful to use with your child before they are able to say words. Using baby signs helps eliminate frustration and can help your child communicate with ease. Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 03/27/2025 |
Virtual – Setting Limits: Building Closeness & Cooperation through Limits
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Are power struggles with your child leaving you frustrated and exhausted? Are you wondering why your child can’t seem to listen? Are your own frustrations spilling over at home? Every child has off-track moments—refusing to brush their teeth, being rough with the family pet, ignoring instructions, pestering their sibling. Conventional discipline techniques over smaller difficulties can sometimes escalate into mounting stress on all sides. This workshop will provide insights and strategies to help you set firm, warm limits in a way that connects you and your child and fosters cooperation in your family. Date: Every Thursday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
