Description
By joining this 7-part Jewish Parenting workshop on Taming the Inner Toddler with Sarah Chana Radcliffe you will discover how to:
- Become the peaceful and calming presence that your child can rely upon to support them through life’s ups-and-downs.
- Reframe stress-inducing moments into learning moments, giving your children the tools to get through challenges with grace.
- Create an atmosphere of serene peacefulness instead of enhancing tantrums and meltdowns with harried and hectic responses.
- Gain the skills to actively guide your children through tantrum-inducing moments thereby ensuring a smoother and more successful experience as they continue to develop.
- Flip your automatic responses to those of humor and love, instead of modeling frantic or furious responses which your children will learn to regard as the norm.
This series contains practical methods, class notes, and guided meditations.
- Foundations of parenting – Review of the philosophy, psychology and behavioral strategies that will make child rearing happiest for you and your child. Learn how these strategies can be applied to your “inner toddler” to help reduce parenting and life stress.
- Tantrums – Learn the difference between tantrums and meltdowns and discover what causes, reduces and limits these explosive outbursts. Learn to recognize and address both actual and stealth tantrums in yourself.
- Gaining Cooperation – Learn how to apply general strategies to specific toddler issues such as mealtime, bath time, bedtime, sharing, playdates and sibling relationships and more. Learn how to help your inner toddler when you have trouble with regulating your own habits and behaviors.
- Endless Energy – Learn how to stay afloat when your toddler outruns you – strategies for redirecting energy, avoiding destructive behaviors and encouraging self-management. Learn to recognize and channel chaotic energies within your inner toddler to attain an even flow of energy and a state of calm alert.
- What is Normal – Explore the grey zones between expected and unexpected behavior in the toddler age-range. Learn to recognize when assessment might be helpful or recommended. Understand the broad range of developmental patterns and use this information to help guide your parenting experience. Avoid both anxiety and denial in parenting while you learn to soothe your own inner toddler’s fear of the unknown.
- How Toddler Behavior Triggers Adults – Explore how toddler aggression, chaotic behavior, defiance, social inappropriateness, public masturbation, nose picking, refusal to listen, engaging in dangerous behavior and many other toddler actions can trigger parental feelings of helplessness, overwhelm, exhaustion, panic or rage – and learn what to do about it.
- Q & A and Implementation – Gain advice from answers to a wide range of questions from fellow members.
About Sarah Chana Radcliffe: A registered member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, Sarah Chana Radcliffe has been practicing marriage, parenting and individual counseling for over 40 years. Sarah Chana is a well sought after lecturer on stress management, relationships, anger management and emotional well-being. She is the author of Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice, The Fear Fix, Make Yourself at Home, and 5 other books on family life and emotional well-being.
Testimonials
“This is the first forum/professional that is real and down to earth and knowledgeable enough to help us!!! You are the first professional that both me and my husband agree to listen to because you cover all the aspects!!!“
“I am really happy to have this opportunity to hear and learn from Sarah Chana every week at an affordable cost! I am really grateful that this is being offered. I currently don’t have a mentor in my life and I feel that this is giving me the chance to get some mentoring (and more!) in the most important area of my life! So, thanks a million!!!!“
“I’m really enjoying the classes and my home has become a much calmer place. I can control the raising of my voice, because I feel like I have a specific approach to follow and don’t get lost.”
“I learned so much from her. So many new ways of looking at things and that’s after participating in various parenting courses and workshops along the years. She is deep, smart, charming and inspiring and I’m very grateful that I decided to join.”
“I registered because liked her free introduction class, so I was expecting a good class, but it totally blew me away – it’s FANTASTIC! I started to apply her methods, and they truly do work!”
“I am amazed ! each time I try a tactic it really works!”