How Do I Parent This Child? - workshop for professionals

Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed. will use her 25 years of experience to share highly effective parenting strategies for bringing out the best in parents and children alike. Parents struggle with "giving children directives" and being met with opposition, defiance and sometimes, retreat. The patterns become ingrained and parents don't see a way out. The behaviors escalate, arguments and threats ensue, and hope is lost. But there's definitely a way out, and you'll learn that it can even be loving AND effective! The key is connecting with the child, rather than being their authority (and it also helps the parents to be authoritative, but just down a different path than they thought.) The root meaning of "discipline" is "to teach." With this approach, consequences and punishments lose their usefulness and parents see the behaviors they yearn to see. Children feel emotionally safe in their parents' presence, which is "absolute gold" fo…