Seminars for Parenting Groups such as MOPS, PTA, and Classes.

ANTS IN MY PANTS: This seminar will look at the many components of attention deficit disorder (ADD and ADHD). We will look at what it is and what it is not. It will also provide practical tips to manage your child more effectively in the school, home and church environment.

A SONSHINE SUMMER WITH YOUR CHILDREN: We will look at practical ways to make this a fun and meaningful summer for you and your children. We will share many practical ideas including parenting personalities, time management, household organization tips, fun projects, creative cooking, triumphant travel tips, desirable discipline, caring communication, and much more!

BRAIN RESEARCH AND YOUR CHILD Now that we have brain scans we know so much more about what is happening in the brain development of our children. What can we do to facilitate our child’s brain development. What is the balance of nature and nurture on developing bright and balanced children.

CHERISHING AND CHALLENGING CHILDREN This seminar will take a balanced look at the many aspects of cherishing and challenging the children in our lives to be all they can be for Jesus Christ. We will look at personalities, how children learn, discipline, self-esteem, teaching responsibility, caring communication, prayer, and reading with children. This seminar closes with a song to remind us to cherish our children more today. There is also a secular version of this talk.

DISCIPLINE TO THE DESIGN OF THE CHILD In this session we will look at how to discipline your child in light of the personality, or design of each child. We will examine basic principles of discipline, how to set up a system of logical consequences, how to respond rather than react, and many practical tips and demonstrations.

FAMILIES UNDER FIRE This seminar may be a one hour, half day or full day depending upon the level of depth or number of sessions. It can include topics such as: the family unit today, family types, establishing family time, communication, raising responsible children, single parenting, blended families, sinking your spiritual roots more deeply, power of prayer, families in the post modern era, and much more.

HEALTHY HOMEWORK HABITS Parents can make all the difference in their child’s education experience. This seminar will show you how to facilitate the process of your child’s homework by training in healthy habits that will help your child become a learner for a lifetime.

HOW CHILDREN LEARN
Part One: we will look at the different learning models to understand how our child learns and what we can do to facilitate success in our child’s learning experience at school and at home.
Part Two: we will take “tests” to see how we learn as parents so we can find ways to be a bridge in the learning process with our students.
Part Three: we will create lessons and show how to “bridge” to each of the different learners.

PARENTING PERSONALITIES We will take a look at how our personalities impact the parenting process. We will role-play the personality process between the different parenting and child personalities.

PROMOTING POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM We will look at the components of positive self-esteem and find practical ways to build up our children's self-esteem such as mirrors, bridge building, safety nets, and school success.

READERS ARE LEADERS This seminar will show us the importance of reading to our children from birth. We will look at excellent books for each age level. We will explore ways to help our children read and to make them readers for a lifetime.

SHEPHERDING YOUR CHILD’S HEART In this seminar we will look at why it important to shepherd our child’s heart and how to do so.