Workshops

Dayle Lynn Pomerantz, our Parent Skills Coach and author of our books, Secrets of Great Parents and Secrets of Great Grandparents will provide you with relevant information and on going support for raising happy, healthy children. She is available to do keynote addresses and workshops for parents and professionals.

Workshops for Professionals

Creating Successful Partnerships Between Parents and Teachers

In this workshop participants will learn a creative approach to building strong, respectful, mutually beneficial relationships with parents that are responsive and sensitive to the needs of individual families.

Topics to be addressed include: creating a parent-friendly classroom, establishing
positive and effective communication, discovering solutions, and establishing networks of parent-to-parent support.

Successful Parent Meetings for Early Childhood Professionals

Parent meetings provide opportunities for parents to learn about child development, to find out about program information, meet other parents and the resources they bring to the classroom environment.

This workshop will focus on planning, techniques, activities and strategies for active participation in parent meetings which inspire and acknowledge the important work they are doing as parents, to share their parenting experiences and have fun together.

Workplace/Life Balance Workshops

Choose to Be Successful in the Workplace and At Home

This workshop will focus on how experiences at work and home impact on each other. A success or challenge at work can affect how you are at home.  How successful you are at home can affect your performance at work.

Topics to be addressed include: time at work and home, planning for life at home and work, choosing quality child care, keys to less stress in the workplace and home.

Become Your Child’s Best Education Advocate

Parents are their child’s most important education advocate.  Finding time to communicate with your child’s teacher can be a challenge. Knowing what questions to ask at your parent-teacher conference can save you time.

This workshop will focus on ways to be involved in your child’s education.
Topics to be addressed include homework challenges, making the grade at home, school success, cooperative communication between home and school.

Workshops for Parents

What Every Infant Knows: For Moms and Their Infants Birth-5 months

This workshop is for new moms to learn their baby’s crying cues and timely topics. Topics include attachment, feeding, nutrition, sleeping, playtime, and developmental milestones.

Ideas and tips for creating balance in your life and taking time for you will be shared together.  

Know it All! Healthy Brain Development

This workshop provides practical everyday examples which encourage parents how to use information on brain development to help children become the best they can be.

An example of healthy brain development includes focused attention to encourage children’s participation in active learning. Music, language, creative movement and reading are important pathways.  Handouts and resources will be available.

Terrific and Sometimes Terrible Behavior of Toddlers: Keeping Your Cool

This workshop provides information regarding typical behaviors of toddlers.
We will seek creative ways to respond to these questions, “What is my toddler trying to tell me when she declares “Me do it!” all the time?” “Why do toddlers throw tantrums”?

We will explore the many challenges facing parents of toddlers: How do we meet our own needs and those of our toddlers? What are the best ways to teach our toddlers to toilet train?” “How can I deal with the stress from friends and family?”

The Magic of Encouragement

This workshop answers the questions, “How can I be the best cheerleader for my child?” What are the best ways to praise my children for their accomplishments?”
“What are the best expressions to show my appreciation and acknowledge my child’s accomplishments?” We will explore these answers together as a group.

Sibling Love: Is it possible?

Sibling love is definitely possible.  This workshop will focus on ways parents can respond to children’s teasing, fighting, yelling by discovering reasons for their behavior.

We will discuss skills and strategies to promote positive sibling relationships that will last into adulthood.

Expressing Anger in Acceptable Ways

This workshop explores why our children evoke our strongest feelings. We will search for ways to manage and express the anger sometimes felt in everyday parenting and then answer the question,” How can I help my child learn healthy alternatives to express their anger?”

Discipline is Not a Dirty Word

This workshop helps parents understand the “normal” though sometimes challenging behaviors they can expect from children.  We will explore together reasons for their behavior.

This workshop also gives parents ideas for how to create a disciplinary strategy to practice negotiation, problem-solving skills and cooperation. Skills learned will include information and practice, active listening, cues, clues, curiosity and follow-through.

Wonderful Ways to Love Your Teen:  For Parents of Children ages 10-16

Do you love your teen? Of course you do! How do we show our teens we love them?
Do our teens still need us?

This workshop gives parents necessary communication skills to create positive, healthy relationships with their teens. Skills learned in this workshop include understanding the teen years, communication, compassion, diplomacy and conflict
resolution.  Your teens are counting on you!

The Preschool Years: For Parents of Children ages 3-5

This workshop provides parents with answers to questions often asked about their preschooler, from “What are the most effective ways to discipline?” to “Why do preschool children have trouble sharing?” to “Why is my child acting this way?”

Together as a group we will share solutions to learn skills to encourage the preschool child in your life to become independent, self-confident, curious and creative.

The School Age Child: For Parents with Children ages 5-10

In this workshop parents will be introduced to key developmental characteristics of school age children and to the varied unique challenges most parents experience.

Basic strategies for school success, positive peer relationships and understanding age appropriate behavior will be discussed.

Our Workshops

Workshops for Professionals

Workplace/Life Balance Workshops

Workshops for Parents