We speak at conferences, club meetings, businesses, and public and private elementary, middle and high schools. Our presentations run approximately 60-90 minutes, including Q & A (optional).
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Topics recommended for middle school and high school audiences
If you are interested in booking us for your conference or seminar,
please call 408-262-6837 or email us. We’ll get back to you soon.
Understanding and Strengthening the Parent-Teen Connection
Parenting teens can be complex and frustrating. Maintaining respect in the family is crucial during the teen years. We’ll show you how to positively impact your relationships by understanding the workings of the teen brain, using approachable communication to stay connected, and learning to diffuse anger while mending hurts and misunderstandings. Putting these strategies to work for you will help prepare your teen to thrive through high school and beyond. top
Parenting Your Teen with TLC
Raising teens is not as bad as it seems. Learn parenting strategies that help you stay cool and worry less as you face unexpected parenting challenges. Find out how the “Time-Limits-Caring” method will help you to survive these often turbulent years. By understanding the importance of normal teen development you will learn to regulate conflict by transforming misunderstandings into connection. These parenting techniques foster love and honesty, while setting boundaries that keep your kids safe. top
How to Reduce Conflict between You and Your Teen
Conflict is inevitable during the teen years and every parent struggles with communication challenges of one sort or another during this life stage. Parents wonder if the relationship will ever get back to normal. Both parent and teen want a satisfying relationship embraced with respect and love. In this seminar parents will be taught how to keep common conflicts from escalating, survival skills to transform conflict into harmony, and methods for improving communications with teens. top
5 Keys to Successful Parenting of Teens
Raising teens is no picnic. Here's relief with bountiful benefits for parents of teens. This humorous and informative presentation will gift you with the know-how to improve your relationship with your teen by attentive listening and thoughtful responding. Parents will learn five new methods for working together to achieve harmony and balance in the changing family, communicating in a way that allows for both teen and parents to get their needs met. top
Talking to Your Kids about Responsible Sexuality
Parents usually want to address issues of sexuality with their kids, but in many cases do not know how to begin. This workshop will explore ways to initiate discussions about issues of sex and sexuality. You will be taught how to creatively educate your child - lecture free - about the damaging physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences of engaging in pre-marital sex. Blueprints will be given to help parents establish essential family rules and guidelines that will help keep their children safe. top
Fathering Teens
Your role as a father is one of the most important and challenging jobs you will ever have. Positive fathering can improve a difficult child's behavior, as well as build up and strengthen an entire family's relationships. Research indicates that fathers who are highly involved with their children in an affirmative way do better in school, have greater happiness, lower levels of delinquency and attain higher levels of education and economic self-sufficiency. Emphasizing the importance of the fathering role, men will learn to communicate effectively and listen, while building the most important relationship a child can have. Steve shares the six pivotal habits of loving and engaging fathers. (14 – 19 years old) top
The Onset of Adolescence: Understanding Your Changing Child
Help! What is happening to my child? I don't know him anymore! Parents, do you find you've navigated smoothly through the elementary school years and then suddenly, almost overnight, you seem to have lost the kid you once knew? This popular presentation uses humorous anecdotes and real-life stories to entertain participants while educating them on what is normal adolescent development. The biological, emotional, and psychological changes that occur as a child begins puberty and enters adolescence are addressed. Using skills they already have, parents will learn to cope with and adapt to their changing child. top
Blueprints for Raising a Responsible Child
Every parent wants to raise a child capable of demonstrating responsible behaviors. Many parents worry about their child’s ability to stand up to peer-pressure, especially during the teen years. Our straightforward, research-based methods will help you gain the traction you need before heading into the often turbulent teen years. We’ll show you how to parent with the future in mind by understanding how current parenting practices impact your child’s future decision-making abilities. You’ll learn how to use discipline, not punishment, to build maturity and foster responsibility, and how to make and enforce family rules and decisions. top
If you are interested in booking us for your conference or seminar,
please call 408-262-6837 or email us. We’ll get back to you soon.
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