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Chapter Two:
Heart-a-Culture:
Creating a Safe and Loving
Home and School Environment
- Establishing ideal daily rhythms in your child’s personal, home and school environment
- How to set clear guidelines and form healthy boundaries
- Guiding your children into the future with security, trust and a peaceful heart.
- How to tell when you are being over-protective or too permissive – and what to do about it
- Best ways to nurture your child’s physical health.
- How to deal with “stress” and “overwhelm” in yourself and your child
- Tips for creating a living space to foster peace and harmony
- Easy steps to toilet training
- Helping siblings learn respect and care for one another’s belongings, space and wishes
- Enlivening and developing creativity, and artistic self-expression
- Finding ways to support your chosen values and spiritual principles
- Recognizing and developing a child’s special talents and abilities
Chapter Three:
Collide-a-Scope:
Our Children's Behaviors and Habits
- How to help children learn what is appropriate in daily situations
- Easy ways to offer a “behavior adjustment” to a child
- Positive uses of authority
- Helping your child’s “highest goodness” come to life
- How to handle crying, meltdowns, and tantrums with proactive skills
- Cultivating useful techniques for managing and avoiding acting out
- How to go beyond saying “NO” and “don’t”
- Coaching your child to develop respectful social interactions
- Keys to developing order, consistency and closure
Chapter Four:
SuperVision:
Who’s in Charge?
- Insuring that all family members have their needs met respectfully
- The enlightened art of “giving space” while still being protective and nurturing
- Taking the initiative to plan activities with backup options
- How parents and teachers can work together to support child health and well-being
- Forming an intuitive connection with your child
- Key steps to establishing child safety
Chapter Five:
Conversations with Children:
Effective Parent-Child Communication
- Guidelines and examples of “age-appropriate” communication
- Using the power of stories to inspire constructive behavior
- Encouraging free self-expression and healthy dialogue
- How to demonstrate reasonable expectations
- Modeling desired behaviors
- How to approach worrisome topics like war, violence and death
- Listening compassionately to a child, and speaking with love and wisdom
- Responding to children with speech development challenges
- How to speak with your child to inspire change and meet their needs
- Responding creatively to “why do I have to?” “I don’t want to”
- Helping children work out their differences, and find shared compromises
- Communicating clearly with other parents to avoid conflict and maximize social interactions
- Learning what a child wants without even having to ask
Chapter Six:
The (K)Night in Shining Armor:
Bedtime and Other Rhythms and Rituals
- The value of regularity, rhythm and ritual – and how to make it happen
- Why children thrive on the certainty of knowing “what happens next”
- How to transform the everyday into the magical
- Including children when celebrating family customs and culture
- Creating activities that develop discipline and skills while honoring family routines
- Using bedtime stories to illustrate key life lessons
- Fostering love and appreciation of music, art, and literature
- Bringing everyone together for special family meetings
Chapter Seven:
Love & Laughter:
Two Basics for Healthy Parenting
- Using playfulness, joy, and observation to explore the wonders of nature
- Imaginative and artistic ways to introduce movement and physical exercise
- Selecting toys and games to further your child's’ learning and development while having fun
- The positive benefits of introducing your child to animals and pets
- Creating “special moments” your child will find irresistible and unforgettable
Chapter Eight:
Interior Home Designer
- Learning what feeds your child’s sense of self
- Sharing your wisdom in “teachable moments”
- Exploring sensitive issues with your child
- “Positive parenting” as a way of life
- Avoiding the “blame game”
- Using role-playing to help your child through difficult times
- Addressing abuse, addictions and other unhealthy situations
- Partnering with health care professionals, other specialists and support systems
Chapter Nine:
Partners in Parenting:
"I Make House Calls"
- Inspiring stories from my own life and professional practice
- Ways to enlist my support as your “partner in parenting”
- Coaching by phone or email
- Speaking –seminars, conventions, and association meetings
- Residence coaching (your place or mine)
- Retreats, video conferencing and online training
- Intensive work with groups or community leaders
- Consulting with teachers, administrators and other education professionals
- Designing spaces and facilities – classrooms, bedrooms, playrooms, family rooms
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