TLC Consulting For Parents & Whānau
Elena Marouchos is a Mentor Teacher at TLC The Learning Centre™. She is passionate about following a curriculum of care for infants and toddlers and exploring ways of integrating the Educaring® Approach within group care settings. Elena completed the RIE® Foundations: Theory and Observation™ course in 2011 and has attended a summer Intensive course at the Emmi Pikler Institute in 2013. Elena is also a board member of the New Zealand Infant Toddler Consortium (NZITC) and provides consulting services through TLC Consulting
One-To-One Sessions
Elena can provide in-home one-on-one sessions for an hour at a time, to address specific issues or challenges you are facing as a parent.
Not all of us are comfortable in a group session, and often working parents struggle to attend the scheduled classes, in which case the personalised one-to-one consulting sessions are perfect.
Typical one-to-one sessions are:
Sleep for baby and parents
Lap feeding
How to create pleasurable nappy changes
Understanding toddler behaviour
Understanding sibling dynamics
Essentially whatever is important to you, of you are wanting to learn more about from a RIE parenting perspective.
For TLC parents: $50 per hour
For Non-TLC parents: $100 per hour
RIE® Before Baby™
“For expectant parents… I am aware that now you are preoccupied with the birth of your baby, and everything that happens afterwards may seem remote and intangible. Yet this is the ideal time to become acquainted with some basic RIE ideas… it is [easier] to develop good habits from the beginning than to undo and change ‘bad’ habits later.”
—Magda Gerber, RIE® Founding Director
There is so much pressure on expectant parents, With Before Baby™, Elena will help you to establish healthy patterns, and expectations for parents from the beginning and includes:
What crying means and how to respond
Setting up the baby’s room
Sleep for baby and parents
Bathing, Feeding & Nappy Changes
“Quality” time together
Fees: $450 for X sessions.
RIE® Parent Infant Classes
Parent-Infant Guidance classes help parents to be confident to parent in a RIE® way.
Facilitated by Elena, a RIE® Associate, small groups of parents and babies come together in a relaxing, infant-friendly environment to take pleasure in the infants’ unfolding development and play.
Classes are limited to eight infants and their parents. Whenever possible, infants are grouped according to their stages of motor development.
TLC subsidises parent infant classes with Elena, for children enrolled to start, or already attending TLC The Learning Centre™
Upcoming Parent Infant Classes:
August - Mid-week - Ponsonby Community Centre
August - Saturday mornings - TLC
For TLC parents: $10 per class, 8 classes per term.
For Non-TLC parents: $20 per class, 8 classes per term.
Nurturing Nanny™
This course is for in-home caregivers that introduces them to Magda Gerber’s Educaring Approach. Nurturing Nanny™is designed to encourage nannies to work more effectively and pleasurably, topics of study include:
Nappy changes, dressing, and feeding with respect
Creating safe places for play and learning
The caregiver’s role during play
Setting appropriate limits
Establishing a healthy sleep routine
Supporting secure relationships
Enhancing employee-employer relations
TLC Parent Evenings
TLC regularly presents parent evenings, which are free to TLC parents, but can be attended by the general public for a small fee of $25
The next scheduled parent evening is:
Thursday the 20th of August 7:30 - 9:00 RIE® Principles in Action - Setting Boundaries.
One of Magda Gerber's guiding principles that we follow is: CONSISTENCY We establish clearly defined limits and communicate our expectations to develop discipline. In this session we will look at how to set clearly defined boundaries and limits, when following Magda Gerber's Educaring® Approach.
Coffee Group
This is a new idea at TLC, that has been suggested to us by our community.
As at July 2020, we are in the process of establishing how we can formalise and establish TLC RIE inspired coffee groups, or play groups. If this is of interest to you, please send through a request using the button below.