Helping your child become confident and capable
This 2-hour session (with 15 minutes of question time) is offered to parents at schools or day-care centres who are generally coping with parenting but want some further strategies. The workshop offers solutions to parents to encourage appropriate behaviour in children, and help them to feel confident and cope better with the typical ups and downs of life. We also look at difficult behaviours exhibited by children such as pushing limits, and discuss proven techniques parents can use to manage and reduce these common problems.
Helping your sensitive child
Parenting a sensitive child can be very difficult to get the balance right between helping them too much and too little. This 2-hour workshop (with 15 minutes of question time) assist parents with proven short and longer-term strategies to help their sensitive child develop confidence and cope better with the typical ups and downs of life, including peer group issues.
Great advice for good parents of children under 5 (single session)
This is a single introductory workshop that is typically offered to day-care parents who are generally doing a good job in their parenting but want some further strategies to assist them. The workshop’s primary aim is to encourage parent’s confidence in their parenting choices and help them best assist their child to cope with the typical ups and downs of life. We also look at a few proven ways to encourage children’s appropriate behaviour and some strategies to use when your child behaves inappropriately.
Helping your teen become confident and capable
This two hour workshop (with 15 minutes of question time) is offered to parents of teens who are generally coping with parenting but want some further strategies. The workshop offers solutions to parents to assist their teen continue to behave appropriately, and help their teens feel confident in coping with the challenges of being a teenager. It also looks at important teenage milestones such as encouraging a teen to become independent, and demonstrates proven techniques parents can use to maintain good communication and harmony with them.
Assisting older teens turn into fully functioning young adults
As a result of the rising cost of living and the relative comforts of home, children are tending to continue to live with their parents into their late teens and early 20s. Because of this, it is important for parents to begin to alter their parenting style to allow their teens to start to take on adult responsibilities and lifestyles, while still living in at home. This 1¼ hour workshop offers parents some strategies to assist them have a harmonious relationship with adult children without compromising anyone’s quality of life.
