All of our workshops are presented in a fun, interactive style that brings insight and humor to a wide variety of parenting topics. Our team-teaching approach offers live demonstrations of “everyday” parenting struggles and shows parents how they respond with either helpful or unhelpful parenting strategies. Parents have a unique opportunity to “see themselves” while discovering practical ways they can nurture the healthy development and foster the unique potential of their children.

• All workshops are typically 60-90 minutes. We can customize the length to meet your needs.
• All workshops allow time for questions & answers.
• Please ask us about topics you don’t see listed.

“Pick up your toys!” “No!” “I said pick up your toys, now.” “NO, and you can’t make me!” Sound familiar? This fun and interactive workshop provides parents with tools for understanding, preventing and redirecting power struggles. Parents will be able to incorporate these easy-to-implement strategies immediately and make their home more peaceful. This workshop is especially relevant for parents of children ages 2-10.

• Parents will learn specific strategies for preventing power struggles
• Parents will get tips for getting out of power struggles when they do occur
• Learn 3 simple steps for setting limits
• Minimize hassles, tantrums and tears
• Plus, time will be allocated for addressing personal questions

Gain insight into why siblings fight. Specific tips will be given to help lessen sibling rivalry, and to strengthen your children’s relationships. Strategies will be offered for managing sibling conflict when it does arise. Learn to avoid common parenting traps that unknowingly create more conflict among siblings. Also, strategies will also be provided for parents that have a new baby and older sibling.

This fun and interactive workshop will provide practical and easy-to-implement tips and creative approaches aimed at helping parents navigate through some of the toughest challenges of parenting in today’s privileged world. Numerous strategies will be given for how parents can keep their families grounded and connected by effectively communicating their values to their children. In addition, parents will gain insight into some of today’s common parenting traps, how these traps are hurting our children’s emotional development, and how to avoid them.

• Avoid raising over-Indulged children
• Communicate your values to your children
• Deepen connections among family members
• Encourage responsibility
• Set limits that work
• Encourage meaningful family activities and traditions
• Implement effective family meetings
• Create a self-reliant family
• Feel calmer and enjoy being a parent

Does your child drive you crazy? Find out why, and what you can do. Reduce conflict and misbehavior in your home by gaining insight into your child’s temperament. Yes! It matters how we nurture nature. Numerous practical tools will be offered.

Do you ever wonder why sometimes your discipline strategies work and sometimes they don’t? This workshop helps parents understand what makes discipline effective and why some “common” discipline practices don’t help in the long run. Parents will gain insight into why children misbehave, and how best to meet their emotional needs. In addition, parents will learn specific strategies for strengthening their relationship with their children leading to greater cooperation.

• Discipline without yelling
• Feel calmer and enjoy being a parent
• Encourage responsibility
• Learn simple steps for setting limits
• Plus, time will be allocated for addressing personal questions

“Homework without Hassles”, is designed to help parents lessen the power struggles and frustrations that often erupt over homework. Parents will learn practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help teach their children responsibility and self-motivation. Parents will gain insight into the emotion that surrounds children’s homework frustration. A variety of tips will be provided to help children be successful in school (and in life). In addition, parents will learn to avoid common parenting “traps” that make homework frustrating for the entire family.

Respect from children begins with parents. Learn how to set clear limits and make them stick. Common parenting traps that get in the way of limit setting will be explored. Also, easy-to-implement tips will be provided to help build a relationship that will make children want to be respectful.

Our kids live in a busy, fast paced, electronic world that offers them many opportunities and conveniences. However, with all the advantages of a technical world, also come some concerns. Kids seem to be “tuned –in” electronically but tuned-out emotionally. They seem strongly attached to things yet disconnected from families and adults. They are overloaded with information on celebrities but lack self awareness and coping skills. They are experts at being busy but are unable to be alone and quiet. In order for kids to feel grounded they must feel more connected at home. This workshop shows parents how to give kids what they really need to be successful in life: time, attention, values, coping skills, acknowledgment of feelings, limits and responsibility. Strategies are offered to nurture all of these areas and more.

Many children today are teased, intimidated, harassed, excluded, cyber-bullied and hurt by other kids. Bullying is a serious problem. This workshop will explore the issues involved with bullying and arm parents with both prevention and intervention strategies to help their children have positive, safe and healthy relationships. Specific topics covered include:

• Three kinds of bullying
• Differences between boys and girls who engage in bully behavior
• Warning signs that your child may be a target of bullying or be engaging in bully behavior
• Talking with your child about bullying
• Talking with your child about friendship struggles
• Steps to take if your child is bullying
• Helping the bullied child heal
• Empowering the child who is witnessing bullying behavior
• Working with the school to prevent bullying behavior and advocating for your child
• Much, much more

Studies show that when parents are involved in their child’s education, children do better academically and they have fewer behavior problems. When children see their parents and teachers working together effectively, they are more successful in school and in life. Effective parent-teacher communication must be nurtured to help children succeed. Parents and teachers must build an atmosphere of trust so that any issue the child is struggling with can be effectively addressed. This workshop provides a wide range of tools and strategies for parents so that they can build positive, working relationships with teachers. Common traps that that parents unknowingly fall into that undermine their relationship with teachers will also be addressed. Also, strategies will be shared for how parents can address difficult or sensitive issues with teachers.

The addition of a new baby into a family brings much anxiety and change for every child, even those who are well-adjusted. Healthy sibling relationships do not just happen. This workshop provides tips for preparing all family members for the baby’s arrival. Numerous strategies will be provided to help with the inevitable anxiety and the array of feelings many children have about the arrival of a new sibling. Specific tips will be given to help lessen sibling rivalry, and to strengthen your children’s relationships. Common parenting traps that unknowingly create more conflict among siblings will also be addressed.

Many of us feel that in order to be successful at work, our families suffer or that in order to parent the way we want, our work will suffer. Sometimes there just is not enough time in the day to get everything done! The more stressed we are the more likely we are to be harsh, impatient, rushed and not empathic with our children. This workshop provides tips for achieving and keeping a balance between work and family; and for keeping our cool when under pressure.

Starting school, preschool or day care is a major milestone for both children and parents. A child’s first separation often brings feelings of anxiety, fear, stress as well as excitement. A parent’s mixed feelings can add to a child’s hesitancy or reluctance to separate. This workshop will help parents prepare themselves and their child for the separation. To make sure the separation experience goes smoothly, guidelines will be provided so that parents will know that what they do can either help or hinder the process. Also, strategies will be shared for helping parents who are having difficulty with the separation.

Every parent wants to raise a successful child. What is success and how do we put our children on that path? This workshop shows parents how to nurture children and give them what they really need to be successful in life. Parents will understand the value and necessity of giving our children time, attention, values, coping skills, acknowledgment of feelings, limits and responsibility. This fun and interactive workshop will provide practical and easy-to-implement tips and creative approaches that will give your children a foundation to form healthy relationships and nurture their unique potential.

Self-esteem is one of the most talked about concepts in parenting and education today. Many parents equate good self-esteem with “happiness” and therefore, spend much time and effort trying to make their children happy. This workshop will define what self-esteem really means and offer specific tips and strategies for how to help nurture this quality in your children. Also, the myths of self-esteem will be debunked as they relate to common traps that many parents fall into while trying to produce a “happy” child.

Parents of gifted children are well aware of the unique challenges, stresses and the joys that come with raising a gifted child. We also know that having a high IQ and test scores alone is no guarantee for the well-being, happiness or success of gifted children. This workshop offers parents practical tools to help meet their gifted child’s complex social-emotional needs--including addressing high sensitivity and intensity. Easy-to-implement strategies will be offered for nurturing sibling and peer relationships. Also, parents will learn how to deepen their relationship with their gifted child.