Early Childhood Parenting Workshops
(Systematic Training for Effective Parenting for Children Under Six)
Maddy is available to offer a parenting seminar for your group or Mom's club.
Maddy O'Neill-Dean, MSW, has offered Saturday morning Early Childhood Parenting workshops on a monthly basis at the Falls Church Community Cente
The time for these parenting workshops has been 9:30am - 12:30pm. Early Childhood STEP books were available for purchase.
ABOUT Early Childhood Parenting Workshop:
Here's the parenting workshop you've been looking for!
This Early Childhood Parenting Workshop offers parents practical and effective ways to relate to their children. This program gives parents information and skills you can use immediately.
This 3 hour workshop will concentrate on discipline techniques centered on YOUR CHILD'S specific emotional and behavioral issues.
Bring your biggest concern to these monthly workhops! Come to as many as you need.
Sibling problems? Whining? Power struggles? Food issue? Bring them all!!
Topics covered will include understanding young children's behavior, building self-esteem, listening and talking to young children, discipline for young children and understanding young children's emotional and social development.
Workshops are supportive, friendly, and thought-provoking. You'll hear how other parents deal with concerns just like yours,
TESTIMONIALS
I'm really glad I took your class. I found the book and our class discussions very helpful. The advice was very practical and portable and I'm glad I have a few more "tools" in my parenting toolbox. For me, a real turning point came in our discussion of discipline versus punishment. It really influenced how I view my role as a parent and my approach to guiding my daughter as she becomes her own person. I continue to have lots of success with the reflective listening technique we discussed and the tips for diffusing power struggles. I also have told all of my friends about your class and how beneficial I found it. Thanks so much for a great class.
~Kristen Loschert, Winter 2007
I really had a good time, as you know. I thought her best point of the evening was to realize that you can't ever be a perfect parent and it's actually good for your child to realize that you have some faults... That some conflict is good since children need to cope and learn to problem-solve on their own. The world isn't perfect and neither are we. Also she made a really good point about lowering our expectations - I agree that we sometimes expect more of our children than they are capable of given their ages, developmental stage, etc.
~Falls Church Mom, Winter 2007
