Parenting Workshops with Dr. Laura Markham
Dr. Laura Markham, founding editor of Your Parenting Solutions.com, is a highly sought-after speaker and workshop leader who assists parents in transforming their relationships with their children. Dr. Markham’s sessions are customized to fit each audience’s unique needs, and are guaranteed to transform the way you parent.
Seminars and workshops begin with a short, engaging talk on the selected topic, followed by a question and answer session in which parents pose their most trying child-raising challenges. Dr. Markham’s entertaining, supportive warmth combines with her practical, parent-tested solutions and research-based strategies to help parents everywhere.
Never Punish Again: Discipline That Works
Why punishment backfires, timeouts teach kids to misbehave, and consequences are usually perceived as punishment. Without punishment, how do you get kids to behave? Why the parent-child relationship is the most important factor in effective discipline. How to use natural consequences effectively to help kids learn. What parents need to know to make positive discipline work.
How Every Parent Can Raise a Cooperative Child
The two guiding principles that keep kids cooperating, from toddler to teen. How to give choices instead of giving in. How to set effective limits. Why empathy is your most important tool. Coaxing good behavior out of a difficult child. The mistakes parents make that inadvertently cause kids to misbehave.
How to a Build Great Relationship with Your Child
From babies to teens, strategies to stay connected as your child grows. From attachment parenting to connection parenting. Why you need to reconnect with your child every day. The little rituals that keep you connected. How to keep a positive connection when you have to discipline your child. The most important secret to a great parent-child relationship.
Taking Your Family Life from Good to Great
Rituals that nurture family life from toddlers to teens. Secrets of Happy Moms. Why kids love family meetings and how to put them to use in your family. Making meaning: remaking holidays so they work for you.
Dinner: 30 Minutes to a More Connected Family
Did you know that how often kids eat dinner with their families is the best predictor of how they’ll do in adolescence? How to make dinner work for your family in the age of overdrive. Who cooks? 50 questions guaranteed to get your kids talking and keep them at the table.
Nurturing Intelligence
Do baby videos and classical music really raise your child’s IQ? Is is true that breastmilk makes kids smarter? Do first-borns have higher IQs? How can you make sure your child grows up to be a reader? What are the most important things parents can do to help their kids do well academically at each age?
Why TV is Dangerous to Your Child
The latest research: TV depresses melatonin levels, which hastens the onset of puberty and makes it harder for kids to fall asleep at night. TV really does rot your brain -- early TV use increases the risk of alzheimers in later life. Why TV worsens school performance, self esteem, and family communication, while it increases anxiety, depression, drug use, and early sexual activity. Why computer games are addictive. How to transition to less screen time without getting lynched.
Protective Parenting in a Media Age
Why children shouldn’t watch TV news. How to talk with your kids about advertising. Why even Disney movies are inappropriate for kids under the age of four or five. Using movies to discuss values. How to raise computer savvy kids. How to nurture your child’s passions, and why that’s protective.
Laura Markham, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist trained at Columbia University in New York. She is the founding editor of the popular parenting website YourParentingSolutions.com, which features her advice column “Dear Dr. Laura.” Dr. Markham serves as Parenting Expert for Mothering Magazine, ParentingBookmark.com, Storknet.com, Wellness.com and Pregnancy.org, on which she hosts a regular Wednesday online chat for moms. She's written hundreds of articles, which appear regularly in print and online. Dr. Markham has held many challenging jobs -- she started and ran a weekly newspaper chain upon her graduation from college -- but thinks raising children is the hardest, and most rewarding, work in the world. She lives in New York, with her husband, 13 year old daughter, and 17 year old son.
To inquire about a seminar or workshop, contact Dr. Markham by email: DrLauraMarkham@nyc.rr.com