Invest in Kids Media Release ******************** Invest in Kids’ Comfort, Play & Teach Centre™ is on tour and on-the-way to North Bay to entertain both parents and children.
Invest in Kids’ Comfort, Play & Teach Centre™ is on tour and on-the-way to North Bay to entertain both parents and children. This interactive play area created by Invest in Kids, a national charity helping parents become the best parents they want and need to be, is visiting North Bay for the first time during the cross-Canada pre-school stage show - Get Set For Life Tour 2007 - presented by Kids’ CBC and Invest in Kids.
The Comfort, Play & Teach Centre is a movable play area that includes four activity zones¾ Reading Centre, Imaginative Play Centre, Sculpture Centre and Creative Centre¾where children have fun making fabulous creations, playing dress up, colouring and creating art. The Reading Centre will feature a ‘big book’ based on the popular Pinky Dinky Doo series of books by Jim Jinkins and the TV series on Kids’ CBC.
By participating in activities together with their children, parents learn how simple everyday moments can be used to support their child’s healthy social, emotional and intellectual development through Invest in Kids’ Comfort, Play & Teach: A Positive Approach to Parenting™. In each activity zone parents will receive a take-home Comfort, Play & Teach™ activity card with suggestions on how to comfort, play with and teach their child in a way that positively contributes to their development.
Comfort, play and teach are the three core types of interactions between parents and their children that support a child’s healthy social, emotional and intellectual development and are easily built into everyday routine activities and moments.
The Comfort, Play & Teach Centre™ will open 45 minutes before the Get Set For Life stage show. Parents and children are invited to visit the Centre:
When: Tuesday, January 30, at 1:15p.m.
Where: Capitol Centre
150 Main Street East, North Bay
The Get Set For Life stage show featuring Kids’ CBC hosts Mark and Joyce, joined by kid-favourites Curious George and Lunar Jim, begins at 2:00p.m. Tickets are $5 plus tax and are available through the Capitol Centre Box Office in person or by phone at (705) 474-4747 or 1-888-834-4747.
Proud sponsor of the Get Set For Life Tour 2007, C.S.T. Consultants Inc. will have a contest at the venue for a chance to win $25,000 of RESP contributions in a Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan (details available at venue). Visit them next to the Comfort, Play & Teach Centre™ to learn how easy and affordable it is to start an RESP for your child's future and to enter the RESP contest!
Invest in Kids is a national charitable organization dedicated to helping parents become the parents they want and need to be. By translating the science of parenting and child development into engaging, easy-to-understand, relevant resources for parents and professionals, Invest in Kids aims to strengthen the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of all those who touch the lives of our youngest children to ensure the healthy social, emotional and intellectual development of children from birth to age five. For more information, visit www.investinkids.ca.
Get Set For Life Tour 2007, presented by Kids’ CBC with Invest in Kids, is part of the Get Set For Life National Public Education Campaign, a joint venture of Kids’ CBC, Invest in Kids and Canadian Living and Coup de pouce magazines. With the animated Zap Family, the campaign’s ambassadors, Get Set For Life provides trusted parenting support to help parents make the most of their children’s first five years, through Invest in Kids’ Comfort, Play & Teach: A Positive Approach to Parenting™.
Comfort, Play & Teach: A Positive Approach to Parenting™ is a thorough, research-based framework created by the experts at Invest in Kids. It translates the most current science on early childhood development and parenting into everyday routines and activities in which all parents and children can participate. To learn more, visit www.investinkids.ca/cpt.
The Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation, founded in 1960, is one of Canada's most experienced and reliable providers of Registered Education Savings Plans, with over $2.3 billion in assets under management in more than 450,000 plans. Its mission is to encourage access to higher education by removing financial barriers to post-secondary education. The Foundation is the sponsor of the Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan, which is distributed and administered through its subsidiary C.S.T. Consultants Inc. For more information on the Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan, please visit www.EducateYourChildren.com or call 1-877-333-RESP.
