Free Parenting Workshops
For more information or to sign up:
call 425-293-4732 or 425-535-0056
email: maudshouse@voaww.org
09/14 & 09/16: Attachment and Brain Development
This class looks at the importance of Attachment between infant and parent/caregiver, and how the building blocks of brain structure are built from these early interactions. The class will explore Secure Attachment vs Insecure Attachment and some strategies for repairing Insecure Attachment.
09/21: Development: Two to Five Years
Some of the behavior issues that parents/caregivers have with children in the toddler and preschool years are a result of adults not understanding human development. This class will look at ‘ages and stages’ during these early years…. what to expect when, and how to manage.
09/23: Eating, Sleeping, and Toileting: You Can’t Make Em’ Do It
These are three of the most challenging early childhood milestones and are often difficult for parents/caregivers. This class will help adults understand these issues, developmentally and emotionally, as well as exploring tools that will help avoid the power struggles that often result.
09/28 & 09/30: Surviving Adolescence: Understanding Those Teens
We now know that the teenage brain is quite different from both the child’s brain and the adult brain. This class explores brain research as well as adolescent development in order to help caregivers understand teens. Participants will learn tools and strategies that will help them cope with these challenging years.
10/05 & 10/07: EQ, Not IQ: Emotional Intelligence
This class will explore the importance of emotional intelligence and why it is so much more important than IQ, in determining our children’s success in life.
10/12: Time Out, Consequences and Rewards: What are We Really Teaching?
These commonly used parenting(teaching) tools may work quickly, but are they really helping our children develop the long-term skills and qualities we want? This class will look at what we know about the possible negative results of these methods and will provide parents/caregivers with more effective tools.
10/19 & 10/21: Twelve Tools to Avoid Power Struggles with Kids
Do you sometimes feel that life with child(ren) is one big POWER struggle? This workshop will share with parents/caregivers 12 (at least) tools to avoid this challenge and encourage children to become more responsible, respectful, and self-directed.
10/26 & 10/28: Why Won’t They Listen, Why Don’t They Talk?
Sometimes it seems that we talk and talk, but our kids don’t listen…it feels like what we say, ‘goes in one ear and out the other’ and then they do what they want. When we want THEM to talk, we often get only one-word answers to our questions. This class will give parents/caregivers new, practical ways to talk so kids will listen and listen so they will talk.
11/02: Raising Resilient Children
Life is filled with challenges and difficulties. We all want our children to be able to adapt to events in their lives and to manage stress effectively. This class discusses what resilience is, why children (and all of us) need it, and how to help children develop the skills necessary to cope with change in their lives.
