Conscious Parenting
Building The Bond

Helping Children Deal With Their Feelings

Work on exploring what happens when your child's feelings are constantly dismissed or denied.  Learn how to meet your child where they are and instead of moving in to fix things, employ skills to help your child identify their feelings, work through them and persevere. Learn how acknowledging their frustration or disappointment helps equip them with healthy coping strategies and foster emotional resilience.

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Engaging Cooperation

Explore how children typically respond to common parenting tactics like threats, warnings, orders, and lectures—and why these methods often fall short. Learn effective strategies that invite genuine cooperation while fostering a sense of respect and connection. Discover how to nurture intrinsic motivation so children choose to cooperate because they want to, not just because they’re told to.

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Alternatives to Punishment Is it necessary to rely on punishment as a means of discipline. Learn how to move away from the threats and bribes. Explore alternatives to punishment that enable you to set limits as well as encourage children to assume responsibility for their behavior. 

Encouraging Autonomy

Ways to help children become separate, responsible people who can one day function on their own.  Skills that help children to develop their own inner resources.

Praise

An Exploration of the kids of praise that build a positive and realistic self-image and the kinds that do not.  Ways to help our children become aware of their strengths so that they can put them into action.

Freeing Children from Playing Roles 

A look at how children are sometimes cast into roles (bully, whiner, dawdler, mischief-maker, etc.) and how we can free them from playing out these roles.  Skills that you can use to help children see themselves in a different and more positive light.

Siblings Without Rivalry Workshop

based on the NY Times Best Selling Book by Adel Faber and Elaine Mazlish

A 5 week Workshop where you'll learn how to respond in a  helpful way when children fight and argue.  You'll be able to promote an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competition.  With your guidance, your children will develop skills that will help them in all aspects of communication throughout their lives.

         What the Sessions cover

• Helping Siblings Navigater Their Feelings Toward Each Other.  What happens to your children when their hostile feelings to each other are ignored or dismissed?  We'll explore four helpful strategies to help siblings express their negative emotions in a healthy way, while fostering understanding and stronger relationships. 

• Avoiding Comparisons.  In this session we'll explore the impact of comparisons and introduce effective alternatives. Learn how to honor each child's individuality while fostering a sense of fairness. 

• Siblings in Roles.  Breaing free from labels and helping children embrace their full potential: Why do children get placed in roles?This session explore the profound impact these labels have on their relationships and self-perception.  It introduces ways to allow child to break free from limiting roles. 

• Handling Sibling Fights.  What to do when conflict breaks out.  An exploration of the commonly used strategies that can often backfire.  Introducing new skills to de-escalate tensions and encourage problem solving. You can motivate children to work on their own solutions. 

• Problem Solving.  A method for helping children deal with big or re-occurring problems they can't work out on their own.  A simple approach for parents and kids that moves them toward resolving their own conflicts.