Discipline Connections for Parents
Beth Anspach, Conscious Discipline® Certified Instructor offering classes, workshops and coaching for parents and caregivers.
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Wiring Your Child’s Brain for Success
Do you struggle staying calm when your child misbehaves or pushes your buttons? Without composure, at the end of their rope, parents will be more likely to react to their child than to respond. These reactions often take the form of angry tones and words, attempts to shame, manipulate, and / or punish. In this scenario, everyone loses. The parent, left with guilt over their actions, often becomes permissive and the child, filled with fear (of varying forms) isn’t able to learn anything helpful from the experience. Not only does no learning happen during these exchanges but the resulting fear limits the brain’s ability to make important connections.
This workshop will help parents understand how to transform this pattern of reactive parenting, become conscious of the thoughts and feelings that escalate these encounters, and learn to be intentional with and responsible for their words and actions. Participants will:
Examine individual beliefs about discipline, redefine discipline, and reframe misbehavior
Find ways to become calm and stay calm when triggered.
Learn specific strategies for teaching children to self-calm
Explore discipline strategies that teach rather than punish
Gain knowledge of how human connection wires the brain for success
Classes are 2 hours long and will be lead by Beth Anspach, CDCI
Power Struggles: Reducing, Redirecting and Reconciling
Do you find yourself in a frequent tug-of-war with your child? Have you discovered that once engaged in a power struggle neither you nor your child win? Want to break out of the lose-lose situation created by constant power struggle? Good news! There is a better way. This workshop, based on work by Dr. Becky Bailey, author of Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, can help transform the daily push and pull into opportunities to develop important life skills and strengthen your relationship with your child. This workshop outlines skills for understanding and dealing with power struggles. During our time together we will
Understand how our beliefs about power impact our discipline methods
Learn a process that will help prevent future power struggles
Acquire skills needed to get out of power struggles when we find ourselves in one
Discover ways to reconcile once a power struggle has occurred.
Cost $30/enrolled families save $10
Toilet Truths - A Potty Mastery Adventure
Mastering the potty is a rite of passage for all young children. Current practices around teaching toileting range from harsh and traumatizing to permissive and ineffective. Want to know what to do and what to avoid? Have you already started but it's not going as you thought it would? Want to support your child's learning in a way that honors their development, individuality, and emotional wellness? This 90 minute workshop for adults will combine the understanding of child development, knowledge about supporting learning with brain-based strategies and some helpful tools to help caregivers go from stress to success in supporting children's potty mastery.
