Here are just some of the topics that can be covered at your school or organization:
(All presentations and talks can be customized to your needs)
Raising Kids with Character : Teaching Responsibility
Would you like to learn how parenting styles and discipline choices relate to teaching responsibility? Are you interested in learning about strategies, that you can put to use today, that can encourage responsible behavior in your children? Learn how you can be a great influence on your child's choices to become a RAD person-- Reliable, Accoutable, and Dependable. This presentation provides straightforward methods for teaching your children responsibility and allows time for questions, answers, and individual coaching on personal topics.
Discuss:
- The influence of parenting style on children's behavior
- How to set clear limits
- How to provide natural consequences
- Consistently follow through with impact
- Allow for mistakes as opportunities to learn
- Strategies that encourage responsible behavior and good choices
A question and answer session will be provided.
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Raising Kids with Character: Teaching Goalsetting
Are you wondering what happened to your goals for this past year? Would you like to learn how to set goals you WILL meet in the next year? Do you become frustrated when you hear the words, “I can’t!” from your child? Are you looking for tools to give your child that can maximize his or her success in life?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!
During this workshop you will learn helpful strategies for goal-setting that will provide you with powerful tools to help you, your family and children set and fulfill goals.
You will learn how to:
- Help your children make their goals, SMART goals
- Help your children make the 5 Ps of success work for them
- Help your childrene avoid the 3 Ps of failure
- Talk to your children about goals
- Support your children in meeting their goals!
- Celebrate your family’s achievements
- Visualize with your children
Time for questions and some personal coaching is provided.
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Raising Confident Girls: Dealing with Body Esteem Robbers
Did you know that "of all the conditions of which a person may be stigmatized in our culture, including racial or ethnic group membership, religious affiliation, physical handicaps, and sexual preference, the stigma of being overweight may be the most debilitating (Crocker, Cornwell & Major, 1993)? Did you know that overweight women were rated last as desirable marriage partners after embezzlers, cocaine users, shoplifters and blind people (Tiggemann & Rothblum, 1988)? No wonder girls have a fear of gaining weight-- even if it is a natural part of puberty. Girls receive deficit-based messages based on their appearance which have been linked to poor self worth, prro body imafe, poor perceived self competence, and low social support.
Dr. Robyn facilitates and leads a dialogue with parents, educators, and professionals about assisting girls to thrive in a society in which they receive deficit-based messages from media, peers, and sometimes even parents and mentors.
Discuss:
- Sociocultural demands for thinnesss in our culture
- Social Appraisals of different body types
- Social Interactions and feedback about body weight during childhood, adolscence, and adulthood
- Developing attitudes and perceptions about the body during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
- Possible effects of weight-related discriminatory feedback on the eating practices, surgical use, and other coping strategies of girls
- Helping girls to thrive and be successful despite the feedback
This seminar could be adjusted for parents, eductors, professionals, or preteen/teen girls. It can be given in a small circle format or a large auditorium. When using a large auditorium format, it is often best to provide break-out sessions that allow for more intimate questions.
Diet Riot! Eating for Health and Wellness in Families
Look around! There are 100s of ways to diet today! How is this phenomenon impacting your family? Parents of children of all ages, teens and educators are invited to delve into the issues of dieting in today's society, healthy eating, obesity, and overall body and self esteem. Understanding the physical and behavioral challenges around eating and weight as well as strategies for lifestyle improvements within families is discussed. Find out why it can be so challenging to ensure that your children (and yourselves!) are eating for optimal nutrition. Learn what to do now to ensure optimal nutrition and positive body esteem for your family in the future. Opportunities to ask questions will be available.
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I Wanna Quit: Teaching Children the Power of Stick-to-itiveness
Frustrated about lack of retention and commitment? This seminar can be customized to parents or to instructors and after school program owners who want children to stick it out.
Learn...
- the top reasons why children quit
- the top reasons why children and families stay loyal
- how to create or find a retention based program
- how to add to or find value in a children's program
- how to connect with the community and a support network
- how to connect with clients
- how to lay the groundwork for commitment
- what to do when children say "I wanna quit"
This is a popular seminar for businesses that rely on children and families for their livelihood. Lack of commitment means an inability to run a successful. long-standing business. It creates a feeling of instability and frustration. After school program owners and instructors don't want to be "the bad guy" who feels like they must "force" a family to stay or provide a financial penalty for early cancelation but they also can not ruhn a business without professional contracts. Information on why children quit and strategies for coping with retention issues is a crucial step towards longstanding success. Any governing organization that deals with businesses where retention of children and families is of interest, this seminar would be a great addition to your conference.
For families, children's lack of commitment can be of equal frustration. Parents complain of needing to plead or fight with children about sticking with a sport or after school program. They feel they are between a rock and a hard place. They do not want to have to drag their child into a program kicking and screaming but pulling the child out teaches children it is OK to quit. This kind of practice does not set a good precedent for the way to operate one's life. It is also a financial burden. After all, it is like flushing the money down the toilet if your children walk out before finishing something. This seminar could be a great resource for any organization that wants cater ti the needs of parents who might be struggling with this issue.
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That Kid is Driving Me Nuts! Strategies for dealing with distracting, monopolizing, or withdrawn students
We all claim to be open to all different types of students. Our classes are for everyone! After all, as an educator, we aim to build tolerance, open-mindedness, respect and empathy for every citizen. But when we are faced with that one child who seems to take your attention away from what you should be doing (teaching class!), who speaks incessantly, has the proverbial ants in his pants, or perhaps just hides in the corner and clams uip when asked to perform, we find ourselves shaking our heads and wondering how to cope.
- Discuss the distracting behaviors that ware on you the most
- Learn the procedure for dealing with distracting students
- Establish rules that will help you with monopolizers
- Designate your supporters in your class
- Learn how to cope with monopolizers
- Discuss how to deal with inattentive or withdrawn students
- Learn how to deal with stubborn students
- Bring discipline into your academy
- Make a plan to start the transformation today
This seminar is popular with all kinds of educators. When instructors leave this seminar they feel that they have specific things that they can do to help their classroom become more peaceful and productive. A question and answer session is always included for more personal concerns.
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Going Beyond the Physical: Transforming your after-school sports program into a Personal Development Center
Let's face it. Families are looking for a lot more than a place for their children to learn sports after school. In this high-powered overscheduled world of drop-offs and pick-ups, families are seeking a place that over-delivers. Parents desire two programs in one. They want all the value of a program that addresses the major concerns of self-confidence, respectm perseverance, and self discipline as well as one that provides a fun and exciting physical curriculum that will challenge and motivate. One stop shopping is imperative and skimping is not an option. That is, unless you want to shortedn the shelf life of every student that walks throught the door.
Make your program more than just a stop along the way. During this seminar, I provide you with the strategies to transform your program into a powerful Personal Development Center that will make your students want to kick their shoes off and stay a lot longer than a while.
Learn ther ABCDs of Success:
- Assess your environment
- Build staff image
- Connect with the community
- Develop and teach character
- Quick Fixes to do today
- Teach with age in mind for maximum impact
Helicopter Parents: How to Cope with Overprotective Mommies and Daddies
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a helicopter parent. These hovering Moms and Dads tend to swoop down and rush in to prevent any possible discomfort that might befall their child-- even if such lessons would help their children learn fromt heir mistakes. Of course, parents mean well. And if we are going to work with young people, we must develop strategies for dealing with overprotective parents who come along with them.
Learn:
This seminar can be adjusted for a parent audience as well as any type of educator, school operator or administrative audience.When the seminar is altered for a parent audience, understanding how to strike a healthy balance and dealing productively with stress of raising a child today is added to what is covered. A question and answer session will be provided.
- Why are they so overprotective?
- The negative effects of helicopter parenting
- How to lay the groundwork for Parent-Teacher harmony
- Strategies to cope with over-involved parents
- Teacher-Parent Decorum: Knowing were, when and how to talk to each other
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