June 12, 2007
Parenthood 101
 Remember your significant other? That person who shares your bathroom, your fridge and your bed? You probably have been like two ships passing in the night since the baby was born. Who has time to share a meal, let alone an occasional tryst, when there's a mouth to feed, a diaper to change, or a belly to burp?
Unlike law, medicine and accounting, there's no formal course of study for becoming parents (not even a simple owner's manual), and that lack of direction can put a ton of pressure on you and your mate.
To the rescue: Bringing Home Baby, a two-day workshop for new and soon-to-be parents created by famed relationship experts Drs. John and Julie Gottman, PhDs, authors of "And Baby Makes Three," and hosted by Carrie Grange Isaacson, a San Diego-based social worker who practices in New York and California.
The seminar will cover a slew of topics you probably never dreamed you would care about (but now are deeply obsessed with), including how to co-parent effectively and keep dads involved in infant care, how to improve the quality of parent-infant interaction, how to deal effectively with stress and conflict, and how to increase both intimacy and friendship in the relationship. According to the Gottmans' research, children of parents with a strong relationship do better in school, adapt better socially and are physically and emotionally healthier.
So, in a way you can consider this seminar not just an investment in your own wellbeing, but in theirs, too.
When: Sat. & Sun., 6/23 & 6/24, 9am-4pm; $325 per couple (advance registration required).
Where: 29 Broadway, 858-952-6441, babymaven.org.
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