WORKSHOPS / WEBINARS FOR PARENTS

Joseph can arrange the following:

Deliver a workshop for your parent group
Give an interactive webinar
Provide individual support and mentoring

You can contact Joseph by email j.o.d@xtra.co.nz or phone 027 206 2929

PARENTING YOUR CHILD FOR SUCCESS AT SCHOOL

Research shows that parents can markedly improve school achievement.

This parents seminar will cover:

Good relationships as the key to learning success
Creating a good balance between parental support and leadership
Establishing household routines which support the learning efforts of your child
5 key ways to help your child improve their literacy skills
Homework without stress: What do the best parents do?
School success: Your child’s journey towards independent learning

BALANCED PARENTING

Children thrive when parents provide a balanced parenting style, which provides both a great deal of love and nurturing with the right amount of leadership and expectations.

In this workshop / webinar parents will learn:

The advantages of authoritative (Balanced) parenting
Why your relationship with your child holds the key to everything
Practical steps to improve nurturing your child
Key strategies to establish and maintain positive parental leadership
How to get your child to want to live up to your family’s expectations
Providing positive guidance and discipline without aggression
How to get out of the trap being a permissive parent
How to change and stop being authoritarian and aggressive

PARENTING THE DIFFICULT CHILD

Parenting a difficult child can be trying and exhausting, yet it does need to be so.

In the workshop / webinar you will learn the following:

The key reasons for children’s difficult behaviour
The parenting skills required which will change children’s behaviour
The professional parent I: calm, loving, organised and wise
The professional parent II: positive and proactive, fair yet firm
Getting out of the reactive punishment trap
Learning by doing: helping your child to make up for their mistakes
Practising the cycle of 5 Interventions to change your child’s behaviour
Red flags needing expert help: ADHD and ODD

HELPING YOUR CHILDREN WITH DIVORCE / SEPARATION

For many children divorces / separation can be extremely stressful, but it does not need to be so. Instead wise parents adopt a series of strategies which lessens the harm caused by a divorce / separation, and helps the children to deal with their feelings and new realities.

In the workshop / webinar you will learn:

Understanding and managing the powerful emotions of the adults
Communicating and sharing with your children
Accepting the children’s emotional reactions and manging these
Convincing your children that their family has changed but has not gone
Setting in place good routines for shared care or parental visitation
Steering your family towards a better future

PARENTING TEENAGERS

When your child enters the teenage years you need to practise additional parenting skills. Although some parents find this stage difficult, other parents manage it really well, so why not learn from their best practices?

In the workshop / webinar you will learn:

Teenager’s journey: Becoming an adult involves risks, losses and rewards
Teenagers’ dilemma: More independence, yet also more parental support
Understanding the many biological and social demands on the teenager
Learning the key skills adopted by successful parents of teenagers
Keeping your teenager safe

ADHD AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS

All children need to develop self-management skills, and many do so successfully. Other children however, seem particularly impulsive, inattentive, distracted and hyperactive. Some of these children could well have ADHD, but this is not always the case.

In this workshop / webinar you will learn:

The natural development of self- management skills in every child
The environments and parenting approaches which assists self-management
Reasons why some children have delayed or impaired self-management skills
Differentiating between normal self-management development and ADHD
Why improving your parent – child relationships can help your child
Improving ADHD without medication and/or with medication
The need for expert advice in some cases

BECOMING THE BEST FATHER YOU CAN BE

Becoming a father is one of the greatest experience in your life. While many fathers naturally grow into the job, some new fathers are uncertain what their role should be and how they can best parent their child. Research shows that having an engaged and nurturing father is one of the greatest assets a child can have, and is associated with a reduced anxiety, better behaviour, better school performance, and a greater likely hood that the child will grow into a good parent themselves