Economic Stimulus Parenting Workshop!
by Ellen C. Braun
Filed under Problem Solving
Economic Stimulus Parenting Workshop!
Due to popular demand, Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, Parent Educator,
and I will be subsidizing FIVE Parenting Workshops! That means
that you get a free six-session “How-To-Talk-So-Kids-Will-Listen”
Workshop!
(If you already registered, and paid, you will be refunded if you
win this contest!)
Simply scroll down and in the “Leave a Reply” section, describe
what you hope to gain from the upcoming Parenting Workshop.
Describe the impact it would have on your small souls and the
dynamics of your family if you were to gain that which you
anticipate.
You may use a pseudo-name, but you must use your valid email
address (which will NOT be posted online) in order to be notified
if you are a winner!
To our children’s success,
Ellen
EDIT: This contest will close at 4pm EST, at which time winners will be selected and emailed. Due to high interest, Adina and I will likely offer this opportunity again in early 2009.
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Hello,
I would be interested in learning more about when and how the workshops will be offered.
Thank you!
Monique
Here is the information, Monique: http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/team/how-to-workshop.html
Best, Ellen
I believe that this seminar will help me get back in touch with my 14 year old daughter and reach my 12 year old dyslexic son. My daughter and I seem to argue and not talk anymore and I need help to learn how to talk so she will listen to me again. She is at such an impressionable age, wanting to prove herself, and I want to be there for her, not be fighting with her. I want her to want to talk with me again. As for my son, he is always fighting his school work and has gotten to the point where I can’t get through to him to talk to him anymore to be of any help. I love my children with all of my heart and soul and want desperately to reconnect with them and find peace in our home again. My faith has kept me going, thinking “this too shall pass” and we’ll get through, but I don’t want to just get through this time in their lives – I want them to THRIVE and be happy again. I look forward to all that these sessions could teach me. Thank you.
I hope to gain the necessary skills to raise teenagers and pre-teens. It is difficult raising a teen and not knowing what to say so she will listen and not shout back or ignore me. It is very stressful in the morning before school and at night after school. Many times there is shouting going on and it is not pleasant. I also hope to learn skills to promote a peaceful home environment and learn how to get the siblings to talk/behave nicely to each other. I hope to learn how to talk to my children so they will listen and have derech eretz and not be chutzpahdik.
I hope to gain more knowledge of today’s society that my kids have to incorporate versus the society I grew up in years ago. I need better understanding of how my kids face aspects of life’s challenges and encounters that I myself have never had to do.
I’m hoping to learn communication skills now while my kids are still young, so that we can maintain open communication as they get older. I have five children so I have different goals for each child, but one is very strong-willed and I hope to learn a method of interaction with him that works! I hope this workshop will make my home calmer, allow me and my kids to yell less, and to truly enjoy interacting with each other.
My anger is so quick to up when I get frustrated with my kids not listening. I then feel awful and guilty. I have 3 kids,a 13 yr old son and two girls 10 & 5. It seems like this has been the only way. I have done MANY parenting classes and groups and read this book and many others but can’t seem to break my habits. I am deeply hoping to finding more tools. I have been recovering for the last 2 months from a hip replacement surgery and have not been working. When I first read about this workshop I was so bummed that I wouldn’t be able to do it at this time, if I won one of the free seminars my dream is my whole family would feel the difference because I know that the change needs to start with ME!
I hope to apply this knowledge to help my 4 and 6 year old through our recent life change. Their father left in June and we are facing a pending divorce. I am currently working on guiding their souls with spiritual, God filled advice on this subject. I am also working on changing and improving my parenting skills so that they are able to cope with what life brings them. Finally I will apply this information as I am an influence to 120 high school girls per school year. I am not able to talk openly with them, but my actions and life can be an inspiration to them.
I have three young children. As they get older, my greatest wish for them is that they will learn to be respectful and empathetic to others. I know that I am responsible for teaching them these (and many other) character lessons. However, if my children do not listen to me – I worry that important lessons may not be learned. I hope that I can learn to talk to my children so that they will listen to me. By making my wish come true, I can help them in making their wishes come true.
My husband is preparing to go to Afghanistan for between 8 and 15 months and I will need all the “tools” in my arsenal to maneuver through this time. We are overseas in Germany, so I will not have a family support network to fall back on during this time that my husband is deployed and both of my children are on ADD meds – my daughter S is 10 and my son J is 8, and my son has a double wammy of learning disabilities. Some days they both challenge me down to the very core, so learning better ways to cope with the tough days and generally developing better ways to communicate with them is just one more management tool I’m looking forward to putting into place, in anticipation of the emotional roller coaster ride we are all getting ready to embark on. Fortunately my husband and I will be able to “skype” with each other, and we have already strategized that we will talk during the day before the kids get home, so that, later when daddy talks with the kids, like magic, daddy will be able to reinforce what I need him to stress with them. Thanks for the opportunity to learn how to improve our family’s communications patterns before they hit the teen years!!!!
If chosen to win this seminar, I would gain not just a tool,but an entire toolbox for myself and my family! I know that with one tool, I can help repair or fix small problems, small hurts and comunication gaps. I always feel like the mom running from place to place with the band aid or the tool after the problem, leak or fall. With three children in my house, a toolbox would mean that I would be able to be ready before the big flood! I could learn and prepare. I could really listen, to hear what is being said, to understand what is not being said and to realize the difference between the two. I would share my tools with my husband, I would
share my tools with my children and I would share my tools with all of the students I teach every day in my elementary school work. I would have an “open box” policy to pass on and help.I would not ask for the tools back, but for the tools to be shared with others. I would feel confident in my ability to handle whatever moods come through the door, whatever problems come off the bus and whatever happened on the playground. I would feel less stress and pressure knowing that a peaceful solution was at hand if we all just worked hard and dug deep looking for the right set of tools. Thanks so much for reading my entry!
I am 50 years old and have a Son 32 and a Daughter who would have been 28; she passed away three years ago. When she left, she left a 3 year old little girl and a 5 year old boy. My husband and I have taken guardianship of them and are on the last leg of the adoption process. Both kids have dads that are less than desirable. Both kids have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Chanse, our boy has anger issues as a result. He suffered terrifying physical abuse from his sister’s father from age 1 1/2 to age 3. Raevin, our little girl has been diagnosed with a Reactive Attachment Disorder and Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Chanse is on medication- respirodol for anger. It helps tremendously. There are no meds that can help Raevin. We have to work with her behaviorally. That’s where I’m hoping you come in!
I work full time, have a part time business, and go to school. I didn’t know I was going to be raising small kids again. Things have changed so much since my kids were little. The “hands off” policy at school just plain blew me away! How do you play tag, or Rover Rover? Parents aren’t allowed to wash their kids’ mouths out with soap anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t necessarily agree with such tactics, it just shows how different things are today.
My children have very low self esteem. They lost their Mom. I just want to help them grow up to be the best they can be. I want them to be empowered, self-relying, responsible, respectful individuals who are free to live up to their full potential. I’m hoping that by winning this contest and being able to participate in such an awesome program, that our family will be calmer, with less yelling and constant frustration and battles.
I would so like to get through one day without the kids screaming and fighting with each other and me screaming for them to stop screaming! Chanse is very competitive and Raevin is a drama queen. If I bring something home for one of them, I better have something for the other one or it will be ugly. They both can be the best kids in the world, but they can also yell at us and talk back.
I need someone to give me some guidance, ideas and support especially before they become teenagers. Right now we spend a lot of time talking, I want to keep that. Please pick us as your contest winner. You’ll be helping to send 2 healthy human beings out into the world.
Thank you,
Mary Winslow
My husband and I do our best parenting six children, who range in age 13-30. While our youngest is still at home, the other kids are in and out. Our current issues are maintaining a sense of “complete” (as opposed to diminished) family for our youngest, as well as evolving strategies of parenting our adult children.
I have three small souls and have been struggling with how to parent without spanking. This workshop would mean great things for my kids, I hope, as I’m having a hard time not yelling and spanking. (How I was raised).
I would be hoping to get ideas on how to better parent my 11 yr old foster/adoptive child who has Reactive Attachment Disorder. As it is currently, she has a very negative idea of what the female parent can do for and with her. Anything I initiate gets rejected and she does not comply with simplre requests but refuses categorically to do anything I ask her for. With my husband it is totally different, she acts like she is in love with him and is more likely to cooperate with a moderate amount of game playing. I am seeking tips on how to develop her relationship with me along positive lines and also get her to take direction better from me. If your workshop can help I would like to enter your contest for the free workshop.
I believe this seminar would help me understand the dynamics of my boys. We have had some tough years though out are marriage (8 years), My husband had a bilateral hip replacements and I had colon cancer and underwent 6 months of chemotherapy. My kids were 2 and 5 while I was undergoing treatment. I would take any help I can get in understanding how there minds work. I had a total hysterectomy (due to my cancer) and I am dealing with a lot of hormone issues and need to find out if there behavior is “NORMAL”.
I have read this book and feel the seminar would be a big benefit to my family. I have 3 year old twins and the earlier I can start with open communication the better. I have a very strained relationship with my mother and I’m really trying not to have that happen with my own children. I find it very challenging to calm down and think before I speak when my emotions are already heated. I want to raise independent, confident people who feel they can talk to me about anything without the fear of being judged/criticized. I feel that good communications skills get you very far in life in all your relationships and if I can pass that on to my kids that would be a blessing.
I am a mother of threee boys, ages 8, 12 and 14. My older boys are becoming very demanding in wanting things their way. It takes a strong mother to raise any child, but I believe this is especially true when you are raising boys; some days I don’t feel that strong! I need more effective communication to handle my teennagers so that my home becomes a more harmonious place. From this seminar I hope to gain insight into getting my kids to listen and also ensuring open communication between us all. I want them to come to me when they need to talk and I want to be a good listener too. Also, I am a teacher and even young children aren’t good listeners these days. Maybe this seminar can give me some new listening and communication tools. Thanks so much for listening.
Hello
my name is Ann I am the mother to a gorgeous 21 y/o who is the mother to her own beautiful precious little princess. She is 6 months pregnant Unfortunantly due to circumstances beyond her control She will be rasing them on her own of course with alot of help from her father & I. I also have a 17 y/o awesome young man. I Feel that i am an exceptional mother as neither of my children have ever done drugs,been in trouble with the police or even been in trouble in school. I feel that I have raised a couple of great human beings. I just feel like the only issue i have is communication only since they have reached or near reached adulthood i feel like suddenly im speaking a language they just dont understand. Now dont get me wrong im not tyring to run their lives or control them its just like my opinion or guidance just dosent hold the importance it once did. therefore I am feeling less effective as a parent. I do not feel that parenting stops at 18. I Beleive that our guidence, support and counsel should be available throuhout their entire lives as a invaluable resource. I also would like to learn new techniques in childhood development as I am helping my daughter raise her awesome little girl i feel less effective in communicating with her. I am the care giver during the day for my beaitiful grandaughter and will also be caring for my awsome lil grandson too. I would be ever most greatful to be one of your recpiants of your class. I also would like to thank you for your generosity in offering this class regardless of who is the recpiant of your contest. May God Bless you for your generosity. Ann
I just want to be able to communicate with my kids without screaming. It seems that’s the only way they listen to me. I want so much to be a good mother, and don’t feel I have all the “instincts”. I love my children, and want them to have happy memories of their childhood, not just a screaming, raging mother. If I achieve my goals in this class, I will be able to restrain my frustration, and speak to my children with the love and respect they deserve. I hope that through this class I will learn to listen and not just react to things they do or say. It will help us develop a relationship that will endure through their high school years so I can guide them through the tough times that await. Thanks for offering this class! Children – 3,6 and 7.
I hope to gain the skills and tools to empower my daughter. I am a single mom and my daughter is having to deal with the fact that her dad and I are divorced. I would like her to be able to be raised with divorced parents and have a strong self esteem and self love. I would like to be able to be the best mom and be there for her in a positive, encouraging, and supportive manner.
I am a mother to a just turned 9 year old boy and soon to be 7 year old girl. Both are wonderful children and I am very proud of them. I experience a high level of difficulty with them when they come off the school bus. I understand they are exhausted from a full day at school but the day is not over as soon as they get home from school. They have homework that needs to be completed, dinner, showers, and a few minutes of down time before bed. Many days I have a difficult time keeping us on schedule as the level of complaining and whining excalates. I start out very understanding, then move to explaining to them the things that need to be done, then move to yelling out of pure frustration in response to their arguing and lack of cooperation. The whole night seems to snow ball out of control. Some nights I feel sad when I tuck them in to bed wishing the night had gone by more smoothly. As the adult, I feel responsible for not being able to keep my cool. Please help….
My hope would be to gain some peace back in our house. We have 3 children – 7, 5 and 3 and the 7 and 3 year old were both dx within the same year with autism. They are both very high functionning, verbal kids but we have a lot of issues with listening, following through and sibling fighting. I find myself stressed a lot and very frustrated which I know I would be even with 3 typical young children but then you throw in issues with homework and sibing fighting plus metldowns and tantrums and I am exhausted and drained by the end of the day. I want to show my children a happy, fun and peaceful household but most days it is chaotic and out of control. Most of all, I want to have a fun and loving relationship with all of my kids and one were they feel connected and close to me so that we can weather the teen years ahead. I would also hope to gain some tools that I can pass on to my husband who has a lot less patience than me and often resorts to screaming and blowing up with them. Often I am more stressed about his reaction than the kids or a combination of both. I desperately need something that works because right now things are falling apart. Thank you for the offer.
I hope to learn how to communicate with my 14 year old daughter. She has ADHD and very low self
esteem. All we ever seem to do is fight and she only wants to be left alone in her room or allowed to watch t.v.
She hates her sister who is 9 and she refuses to be in the same room as her sister or her father-she claims he breaths
to loud. We never eat meals together or do anything as a family. School and homework are a nightmare!
She never even goes out with friends. I’m at the end of my rope, so I’m hoping this workshop will help our family.
Lately, it seems that the only time my 11 year old listens to me is when I am cross. I’d love to learn tips to communicate with him. I try to talk with him about the importance of being “on the same page” whether it is a family thing or at school. He seems so disengaged, and yet his gets mostly good grades. Not missing deadlines at school, working on projects early, and asking for help when he needs it are the things I try to work with him on mastering and taking ownership. I have told him that I will no longer race around at the last minute going to 4 stores to find supplies because every school in the district has assigned the same project and there are no supplies to be found. I limit video (Computer, TV and gameplay) to none on weekdays and 2 hours on weekends. It seems that he did better following directions at a younger age than now. I am buying the book my next amazon order, but would love to take the course. Thank you.
OOOOoopppps! typo on my email address. Here is the correct one.
I hope to learn how to communicate with my kids better. I remember reading this book before I started teaching and had kids. I can remember back then I thought it was a really good book and had great ideas. I want to reread it and take the seminar so I can be a better Mom to my kids and not yell so much. My kids are 13, 9 and 5. Sometimes I feel like I have to keep repeating something so they don’t listen. I want to learn how to do it better.
I want to learn to be a better parent.
I want to understand the challenges children face today.
I am the mother of two children. A wonderful little boy 4, who was recently dx with Epilepsy and a wonderful little girl 2 1/2. They are both great kids, but with the stress of everyday life (I was working full time, recently got laid off) So now I am back home with them and also have the stress of needing to make a living for them, so I can’t fully concentrate on them, my mind is in a thousand different places. I need help focusing on correcting them and getting them to take me seriously. They seem to walk all over me. I try to correct them and they never listen to me. I find myself yelling and getting so fustrated that it makes the situations worse. Since my son was dx with epilepsy and put on medication (Keppra), his behavior has made a 360 degree change. He use to be a very laid back child, now he gets very irritable and mean. I am not sure how to correct him because I am not sure what he can help and what he can not. That’s another issue I am dealing with is what behavior is caused by the medicine and what is caused by his age and being spoiled. My daughter is only 2, but she has more attitude than a 21 year old. She yells at me and points her finger at me. Everytime I go to the store, they run away from me and don’t want to sit in the cart. I dread when I have to go to the store with them. I know I am going to be leaving with at least one screaming child. I feel like it is just me because when they are with my sister-in-law or mother-in-law they are good. They walk with them and sit in the cart. Another issue is I can not get them to sleep in their rooms. They sleep on the couches. I just don’t know where to turn. I feel like its too late to change this bad behavior. I get very depressed and feel like a failure as a mother. I often feel like I need to call Nanny 911. I realize my children act the way they do because of me and I just wish I could get help on how to be a better mother because I love my children so much and I know they are truly a blessing from the lord. I need help on ways that I can deal with my stress without taking it out on my kids. I need to be more patient with them. I think that the workshops will be a great opportunity for me to learn new techniques to deal with my children and to be patient with and give me some new ways of dealing with my children without yelling and screaming at them and ways of dealing with my personal issues without taking the stress out on them and help me to be a better mom. All I want for my kids is to have a happy and peaceful life because that is what they deserve. Thank you for the chance to get help to become the mother I want to be.
I love my two boys so very much, but I feel as though I have made some mistakes in raising them thus far. My 8 year old acts as though he’s a teenager — rarely shares information with me and reacts with anger and frustration if I ask him the simplest question (e.g. “How was your day?”)”I don’t feel like talking about it” is his favorite response. My 6 year old will share a wealth of information with me, however he does not listen very well at all. Time-outs, loss of priveleges, talking and yelling don’t work. He seems to be conducting an ongoing experiment with us, trying to determine just how far he can push. I want to restore peace and harmony to our family and our home. I’m hopeful this workshop will help.
I have read this book, and sibling rivalry, and I am ready for more. Love to read it, and need to implement more!!!…
Mam, First of all I would like to confess that I am not a parent. But I think that it is not necessary to be a parent in order to get parenting advice and since I know my parents, I do know that a family plays a very important role in a small soul’s life. And that is why I have registered for Raising Small Souls. For the record, I am a student in India and probably will be married after 5 years. So this workshop may help me in advance to know how should we have a talk with our children. I think the most difficult situation for me would be to talk with my children about sex(please I am sorry if anyone is offended). I want to be free with my children in matters like these. So I would hope that this upcoming workshop would be able to tell us as to how to talk to our children in matters which are really complex. If I can get answers to my question then I think that my future-children will be happier, healther mentally and physically. For me, it is all that matters. They should be happy.
I’ve read this book several times and have not been able to stick with it. I could sure use a refresher course with encouragement from a pro.
I would REALLY like to attend one of your workshops. I have read your book countless times (5 now I believe since my daughter was born) as it really speaks to my soul as a parent. I KNOW it is the right way to parent, yet I find that I continually fail to implement the wonderful suggestions when I am in critical stressful situations and find myself resorting to yelling everytime (habit acquired from my own mom). I do NOT want to be this parent. I want to change and hope my relationship with my children can improve. They are only 3 and 6 and I hope it is not too late. I don’t understand why I cannot break this yelling cycle even with all the great knowledge. I feel like with a seminar to take the information to a greater depth with perhaps more examples, I will succeed.
I woould love to be able to listen to your workshop. I really need to pick back up with brushing up my parenting skills. The title fits perfect, I am having a tough time getting the kids to listen to anything and it pushes my “buttons”. I would like to brush up on proper responses. It is impossible to ge them to help me with anything and I am getting very frustrated!
Hello…
My husband and I have three children under five. We have several parenting books, including “How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen…”, but we seem to have trouble following through (both in completing a book start to finish in a reasonable time frame and in putting what we learn into action on a consistent basis). We plan to homeschool, and have already begun to do so, but we are having difficulty getting everything together to make our household the way we want it to be. We seem to have lost some of the joy in the middle of the chaos. As parents, we seem to have created an environment where screaming and anger take over when we are stressed out. As a result, our children seem to be mimicking our behavior when they feel frustrated. We hope to change our attitudes and encourage our kids to become happy, healthy, self-confident individuals who can trust us and rely upon us. We are doing the best we can, but we know we can be better parents. We want to make our household a healthier emotional environment. We agree that if we can’t, our children would be better off in school than in being schooled at home. We eagerly welcome the opportunity to become better parents and better people and look forward to attending the upcoming parenting seminar. Thank you for the opportunity to do so!