Parenting Seminars and Coaching Topics
Parenting as a Team
A workshop for couples focusing on the stresses of raising young children, improving communication skills,
and developing discipline strategies that work for the whole family.
Building Healthy Families
This seminar helps identify what is important and meaningful in building a healthy family, and explores
the value of activities such as family meetings, family traditions and rituals, and the creation of community.
From Partners to Parents
Designed for couples anticipating the birth or adoption of their first child, this training addresses
practical and emotional issues related to the couple's transition to parenthood.
Teaching Children Values
In this talk parents will explore their own morals and values and how they are passing those on to their
children. We also discuss how to best to guide and support our children's developing values.
Communication And Limit-Setting With The School-Age Child
Some of the topics discussed include positive limit setting, parent-child communication, problem-solving,
and encouraging children to be responsible for their own behavior.
Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Our Children To Think Before They Act.
This training explores how we can teach and guide our children to be aware of their feelings and appropriately
express them, the importance of thinking before acting, thoughtful approaches to problem-solving, and how to be empathic and
considerate.
Your Terrific Two And You
This discussion emphasizes an understanding of the emerging independence, concrete thinking, and the
unique world-view of the two-year-old. Some of the important areas explored are limit-setting, emotional development and temperament,
toilet-training, and social interactions.
Raising Children In An Interfaith/Intercultural Marriage
This topic focuses on the added multi-faceted dimensions of different cultures, faiths, and races to
the challenging job of raising children. Important issues discussed include the couple's belief and values, steps to create
a family identity, and the impact of the developmental and cultural clashes on the family.
Raising Children In An Affluent Society
Here we discuss the pros and cons of raising our children in an age of fortune and good economy. We explore
how we deal with money and the value we have attached to it,and how to help our children develop their own healthy relationship
with money. We discuss ways to help our children to be self-reliant and self-supporting so they do not have to depend on their
college fund for a living.
Keeping It Simple: How to Successfully Manage Family Stress
Most families today are running on overload, and dealing with stressors in epidemic proportions. This talk
will identify some of the causes and consequences of stress, and how it can be managed or prevented.
Protecting Your Children During a Divorce
This series will focus on the impact that divorce has on children, and ways in which parents can minimize
the anxiety, anger, trauma, and resentment that many experience. The goal is to allow the children to love both parents and
not be "caught in the middle."
Raising Confident and Resilient Children
Self-esteem, self-confidence, and the ability to successfully deal with life's hurdles are important traits to have to
be socially, emotionally, and academically successful. We will explore strategies that we, as parents, can use to promote
those traits in our children.
Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Our Children To Think Before They Act
We will explore how we can teach and guide our children to be aware of their feelings and appropriately express
them, the importance of thinking before acting, thoughtful approaches to problem-solving, and how to be empathic and considerate.
Who's The Boss? Temperament and Limit-Setting With The Pre-School Age Child (2 to 5-year-olds)
During the pre-school years, parents' expectations are often met with resistance or rebellion. We will focuse
on the development of your pre-school age child, understanding your child's unique temperament, learning about realistic limits
and how to set them.
Raising Sons
"Boys will be boys..." Just how different are these adventurous, risk-taking, danger-loving sons from their sisters? We
will address the particular challenges of raising sons in today's world, in addition to preparing them to be tomorrow's men.
Raising Daughters
This class addresses the challenges of raising emotionally healthy daughters who can be self-sufficient, aware of their
needs, and proud of their accomplishments, in a society that rewards them for being cute, thin, dependent, and cooperative.
Recognizing Signs of Anxiety and Depression in Children
Children show their feelings very differently than adults, and sometimes they can be misunderstood as angry, defiant,
hyperactive or distracted. We will learn to recognize behaviors associated with depression and anxiety, and strategies
to deal with them.
