Workshop and Lecture Topics

Beyond The "Big Talk" Discussing Sexuality with your Children

Do you blush at the thought of teaching your child about sexuality? Do you believe that you have time to wait until their older? Are you prepared to answer your children when they ask tough questions? What about if they don't ask??? It has been proven that parents are the most effective teachers for children to learn about intimacy, love and sexuality. In fact, studies show that children want to learn this information from their parents, that it can actually decrease the amount of sexual activity and promote more responsible sexual behaviorRead more...

Beyond Time Out: Setting Effective Limits in the Modern Classroom

This workshop is based on the premise that effective limit setting not only means stopping misbehavior, but also helping children develop a sense of responsibility and high self-esteem. Even young children can recognize how their behaviors impact others, and develop a sense of self-control. When this happens, the classroom becomes not only a place of learning, but also a community where children work together and feel deep pride in doing so. This workshop provides teachers with effective limit-setting techniques that work within and beyond the classroRead more...

Building Self-Esteem from Toddlers to Teens: A Parent's Encouragement

Self-esteem is a process that begins in infancy and continues throughout a person's life. When children have low self-esteem, they feel bad about themselves, they fail to live up to their potential in school and at home, and they're more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors like sex, drugs and alcohol when they reach adolescence. On the other hand, when children have high self-esteem, they're more likely to be cooperative, respectful and responsible, to avoid high-risk situations, to be self-reliant and to resist negative peer pressureRead more...

Creating A Cooperative Classroom

This unique workshop will give you an invaluable "problem solving model" which enables you to discern how to handle any problem that might arise in your classroom. Specific techniques with clear examples will be given which will help you effectively enhance cooperation while maintaining order (and your sanity). These techniques are not only effective, they also build children's self-esteem. Designed for children of any age, this invaluable model will give you the specifics of what to say when, and how to say it.

Discipline: Setting Appropriate Limits For Today's Children

An absolutely essential workshop for parents of all children in our society today. With children being influenced in so many different ways - through television, advertising, music and more - it's important that parents have effective skills for setting limits based on their personal values. This workshop takes a respectful look at the child's world and helps parents recognize the importance of setting limits for their children. Further, it gives parents effective, easy to implement, proven techniques that WORK! These skills empower parents and children alike.Read more...

Giving Kids Good Values

In the past, parents could rely on their children learning good values through role modeling alone. Children and parents lived in close, tight-knit communities where the values they saw were reflected in the everyday lives of the people around them. In today's society, however, with communities and family more widely dispersed, children are exposed to alternate values through peers, television and other forms of media. How do we keep kids on the right track? How do we help them balance the tempting, tantalizing images all around them with good internal sensibility?Read more...