These hour and half interactive and fun lectures cover many parenting topics – from toddlers to teens to power struggles to effective communication to step-parenting and much more.
If you have an organization that is interested in shorter lectures or would like to host a workshop in your own home the lecture series may suit you perfectly!
1. Balancing Work and Family – How to nurture yourself and your family so that your family supports your work. Find the Balance.
2. Balancing Love and Discipline – Introduces the concept of firm and kind, unconditional love, and the value of more action and less talk.
3. Results Without Punishment – Introduces skills to effectively gain cooperation and agreement without punishment.
4. Creating Cooperative Families -Teach how to create a cooperative family/classroom atmosphere and what to do when there’s a lack of cooperation.
5. Effective Parent- Child (Teacher- Child) Communication – Introduce the concepts of listening, GEMS, handling feelings and conflict resolution.
6. Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem – Demonstrate 10 methods of disciplining while instilling high self- esteem
7. Getting in Step with Step-Parenting – Learn how to work cooperatively with your ex and peacefully blend families
8. Handling Aggressive Children in the Classroom, Birth through Six – Explore developmental and learned aspects of aggression and 15 actions you can teach to correct this behavior.
9. Handling Sibling Rivalry – There is a difference between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict. Show how to identify and correct each behavior.
10. How to Turn a Terrible Two into a Terrific Two – Use lots of developmental information and the mistaken goals of power and attention to make this difficult time wonderful.
11. “If you don’t Stop Crying…!” – How to handle Children’s Feelings-Show the effects of feeling stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with children’s feelings in each developmental stage.
12. “No I Won’t and you Can’t Make Me!” – Effectively Handling Power Struggles- Teach how to recognize and disengage from a power struggle and what to do to lessen them in the future.
13. That’s it, You’re Grounded: Parent-Teen Communication – How to effectively communicate with your teen, set clear boundaries, and understand what happened to my child!
14. Parenting as a Team – Discover the underlying causes of couple’s disagreements on parenting and show how to create peaceful resolutions.
16. Take the Hassles out of Homework – Lessen the power struggle, teach responsibility and goal setting and demonstrate ways to encourage and self-motivate children.
17. Tame those Tantrums – Teach the concept of how less power means more. Teach how to diagnose tantrums and prevent them.
18. Teaching Children Self Control -Within developmental guidelines, show how it is the parents’/teachers’ job to assist the child in learning how to control and appropriately express their feelings and desires.
19. Tell Them What To Do, Not What To Don’t - Teach how a small shift in speech can create more cooperation, more responsible children.
20. What to do When Your Kids Drive You Crazy – Show some alternatives to nagging, yelling and threatening and how to model self-control.
21. Asking for What You Want – Demonstrate how to understand and overcome this difficulty and how to successfully negotiate.
22. Couples Communication -Enhance skills to create closeness, teach how to hear and be heard and have fun!
23. Creating Teamwork - Teach underlying concepts of teamwork and how to make it happen at home and work.
24. Keeping Yourself Encouraged (and Spreading it Around) – Show how to encourage yourself and those around you to achieve more in every area of life.
25. Resolving Conflicts – Demonstrate the power of conflict resolution and negotiating to a win-win.
26. Setting Limits – Understanding the issues around setting clear limits and making them stick.
27. Bully Proofing Your Kids – Take a close look at bullying, what it is, what causes it and what parents and teachers can do about it.
28. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Sports – Guidelines for how kids (and parents and coaches) can get the most out of playing team sports.
29. Temperament – Understanding Children’s Temperament – Temperament is a largely underrated influence in our child’s life. Explore our own temperaments and our children’s so we can respond with love, effectiveness, and calmness.
30. Teens You Gotta Love ‘Em – Understanding the teen years and tips for creating a more peaceful co-existence with your teens.
How do I sign up? Contact Eileen at eileen@familymix.com or call 802.743-FMIX.
I have questions. Now what? Visit our FAQs or contact Eileen.
When is the next course? Navigate to the CALENDAR for course offerings. Or contact Eileen to set up your own.
What else do you offer? Eileen also offers an in-depth five-week intensive course and family coaching. Visit our Redirecting Children’s Behavior 5-Week page for further information.