Increasing Safety, Promoting Harmony in the Home for Life
Dogs & Toddlers™ is an International program that helps families with dogs and toddler-age children create safety and harmony at home. We offer positive, practical, and fun solutions to challenges that often arise in families with dogs during your child’s early development years.
The goal of Dogs and Toddlers™ is to set dogs and kids up for success as your family grows.
Dogs & Toddlers™ is the ideal program for families with dogs and babies who are soon to be crawling or walking. Often the first 3 months have gone smoothly and many families are caught off guard when their dog begins to show discomfort with the new developmental changes of their mobile baby. This program offers insight and proactive options for common challenges that families with dogs experience as their baby becomes mobile.
The goal of Dogs and Toddlers™ is to set dogs and kids up for success as your family grows.
Dogs & Toddlers™ is the ideal program for families with dogs and babies who are soon to be crawling or walking. Often the first 3 months have gone smoothly and many families are caught off guard when their dog begins to show discomfort with the new developmental changes of their mobile baby. This program offers insight and proactive options for common challenges that families with dogs experience as their baby becomes mobile.
Conscious Companion is a highly respected member of Family Paws Parent Education Advisory Team. I am a licensed educator of the Dogs & Storks® and the Dogs & Toddlers™ programs. I provide group presentations in the community, and I can teach you from the comfort of your home! Please contact us if you would like to learn more about how we can help your family.
Thanks to public education, families with pets are now doing their duty, by researching, and implementing practical solutions as they prepare for their baby, but what about after the baby arrives!?
This is a time when challenges and frustrations begin. The baby-pet introduction phase may go smoothly, which leads families to assume that their “happily ever after” has begun. However, all too often, once the toddler is 'on the move", the family dog or cat becomes very uncomfortable during this stage. Unsupervised, small children and dogs can inadvertently hurt each other. Young, school-age children need clear guidance for safe interactions with dogs. The child's safety is compromised, and the parents are at their wit's end. Have no fear. That's where Dogs and Toddlers comes in!
We offer a positive, practical, and preventive approach that families can put into action in their homes.
This is a time when challenges and frustrations begin. The baby-pet introduction phase may go smoothly, which leads families to assume that their “happily ever after” has begun. However, all too often, once the toddler is 'on the move", the family dog or cat becomes very uncomfortable during this stage. Unsupervised, small children and dogs can inadvertently hurt each other. Young, school-age children need clear guidance for safe interactions with dogs. The child's safety is compromised, and the parents are at their wit's end. Have no fear. That's where Dogs and Toddlers comes in!
We offer a positive, practical, and preventive approach that families can put into action in their homes.
What We Offer
- Answers to your questions about toddlers and safety
- Must-know information for parents who have toddler-age children and dogs
- How to "Speak Dog"
- Advice about common trouble spots between toddlers and dogs in a home
- Practical solutions, from do-it-yourself techniques to hands-on help
- Insight into how your changing family dynamics may affect your dog
DID YOU KNOW??
One of the most important home management techniques is inviting your family dog to interact with your child, rather than allowing your baby to crawl over to your dog.)
It is imperative to allow your family dog to choose to come over to you and your child. If your dog chooses not to participate in petting or close interaction, that is the dog's choice, and is perfectly fine.
One of the most important home management techniques is inviting your family dog to interact with your child, rather than allowing your baby to crawl over to your dog.)
It is imperative to allow your family dog to choose to come over to you and your child. If your dog chooses not to participate in petting or close interaction, that is the dog's choice, and is perfectly fine.
What We Do
- Emphasize the importance of including family dogs in a safe and comfortable manner for all.
- Discuss specific ways to include family dogs in daily baby routines from the start!
- Emphasis the need for realistic expectations of both baby and dog.
- Educate about different types of supervision and offer solutions for safety
- Addresses the changing family dynamics and how that may impact the family dog.
Family dogs often adjust with a baby in the home. Then once baby begins to discover mobility by crawling, cruising or walking life can become stressful for dogs and parents. We offer positive tips and creative solutions as your baby enters this active stage of mobility! Learn more in the video:
Listen to a brief interview with PPG World Services where I discuss what our
Family Paws Parent Education family can do for your family!
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