Becoming a Parent: Everything Changes

by | Jan 19, 2016 | GKI Blog, Updates

The artist Sarah Walker is quoted as saying “that becoming a mother is like discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live.” (LaFrance, 2015) Research tells us that many of the emotional changes that occur during pregnancy and...

The Art of Building Trusting Relationships

by | Jan 12, 2016 | GKI Blog, Updates

Forming trusting relationships with parents is essential to keeping families interested and engaged in program services.  The Growing Great Kids Curriculum provides a few modules to use at the onset of services that support families in gaining an understanding of the...

Language Differences that Matter a Lot

by | Jan 5, 2016 | GKI Blog, Updates

When people discuss the disparities in opportunity among socio-economic groups, the research done by Betty Hart and Todd Risley in the 80’s and 90’s often comes up (Hart & Risley, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, 1995)....