Flying Bagel Counseling Services

12/01/2025

January is fast approaching!

Flying Bagel Counseling Services is starting a new group in January for parents who are no longer together and want to strengthen their co-parenting relationship. The flyer below has most details, and more details as well as the pre-screening form on our website can be found here: https://www.flyingbagel.org/groups

11/03/2025

Join us on Fridays starting on the 7th for Babies & Toddlers Make Music!

This fun and engaging music class for kiddos and their caregivers encourages your child’s natural response to music through delightful rhymes, lullabies, floor and lap games, action songs, dances, puppets, instruments, and singing. These activities help foster a sense of a steady beat and encourage language development!

Babies & Toddlers Make Music (6mo-2 years): Fri, Nov 7-Dec 19, 9:30a-10:15a
Toddlers Make Music (18mo-3 years): Fri, Nov 7-Dec 19, 10:30a-11:15a

Some spots are still available, register TODAY!

To enroll, please call (360) 779-9898 or visit CityOfPoulsbo.com/Register.

11/03/2025

🌟 This Week at The River Northwest Church🌟 Our sanctuary will be transformed into a food bank to bless families affected by the shutdown. 🛒💛

We’re looking to serve 150 families — between Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 6PM–8PM nightly— with groceries, household goods, and prayer for anyone in need. 🙏 First come, first served — no holds.

We love you, Kitsap County! ❤️

📍 1500 Riddell Rd, Bremerton Wa 98310
🗓️ November 05, 06, 07
⏰ 6pm-8pm Nightly

📖 “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16

10/27/2025

Times are tough ♥️ South Kitsap Helpline is here to help

Effective immediately our food bank is offering weekly visits to individuals and households in need of food. This is to help with the shutdown and to also try to counteract the deep cuts to vital government programs people rely on to make ends meet.

Not sure if you are eligible? Are you in need of food? Then you are eligible! Times are so tough right now. Please, please, please don’t go without. What should you bring? Just grocery bags with you to take your food home. That’s it!

Our food bank is open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11-5 (service outside of those times is available and can be arranged in advance by calling and asking for a supervisor). We are still located at 1012 Mitchell Ave in Port Orchard. Please feel free to call 360-876-4089 if you have additional questions.

10/27/2025

10/26/2025

Babies can’t self-soothe. That’s where we come in.

Co-regulation = borrowing a caregiver’s calm.
It’s how babies learn to handle big feelings before they have words or skills to do it solo.

✅ Rocking them when they cry
✅ Speaking gently when they’re upset
✅ Holding them close during scary moments

It’s not spoiling. It’s science. And it starts from birth.

More here: https://bit.ly/3GjZStn

10/19/2025

Fail fast, fail forward… reflect on the learning.

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

The goal of co-regulation isn’t to “make calm happen” or to dismiss the full spectrum of emotions. Big feelings are not problems to fix — they are signals, and children need to know their sadness, anger, fear, and frustration are just as valid as their joy and excitement.

This is a super misunderstood nuance to emotional regulation and emotional intelligence.

What we know from the neuroscience is that children borrow our nervous system before they can regulate on their own using theirs. When we stay grounded, it doesn’t mean we’re demanding calm from them — it means we’re offering our calm as an anchor. This creates the safety their brains need to process their emotions fully. Over time, those repeated experiences wire their brains toward the capacity for self-regulation.

So when we say “kids learn calm by borrowing ours,” it’s less about calm being the goal and more about our calm presence creating space for their whole emotional experience to unfold safely. Calm becomes a byproduct of safety, trust, and connection.

Learn more about co-regulation with love: https://genmindful.com/blogs/mindful-moments/teaching-your-child-how-to-be-mad

And for a personalized positive parenting plan, take our Emotional Intelligence Quiz 👉 https://bit.ly/Emotional-Intelligence-Quiz