Peaceful Parenting: Staying Cool When Your Kids Aren’t
All parents want to raise children with positivity, optimism and gratitude. Join this workshop and learn to identify negativity pitfalls and explore practical techniques for overcoming them. This workshop will also incorporate strategies, games, and activities that can be implemented to foster …
Sunny Side Up: Encouraging a Positive Outlook in Your Children
All parents want to raise children with positivity, optimism and gratitude. Join this workshop and learn to identify negativity pitfalls and explore practical techniques for overcoming them. This workshop will also incorporate strategies, games, and activities that can be implemented to foster …
Compassionate Behavioral Parenting Skills
This webinar will teach you practical skills you can use every day to address challenging child behaviors. It will help you to understand better why your child is behaving the way they are, and know what you can do to help. We …
Your Organized Child: Cultivating Organization, Time Management & Planning Skills
For many children and parents, staying on top of homework and long-term projects is a never-ending battle. Difficulties with tracking assignments, managing materials, time management and planning are often a major source of conflict at home and lead to missed assignments and …
A+ Beginnings for Back to School Bliss
The transition of going back to school brings change and uncertainty. Model confidence for your children as you create structure and set goals to create a positive tone for a great start to the new school year. In this webinar we will …
Creating a Sensory Space for Your Child with Special Needs
In this presentation for parents, in collaboration with Sinai Schools, you will hear from an OT and Psychologist who works with children with sensory challenges as well as an interior decorator who helps parents design sensory-friendly spaces in the home. Deepen your …
Collaborative Problem Solving: An Introduction for Parents
Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS) is a big shift when it comes to understanding your child’s challenging behavior and what to do about it. It is proven to reduce challenging behavior, improve family relationships, and help your child build the skills they lack. …
Understanding Accommodations and Modifications and Partnering with Teachers
The language around struggling learners can be confusing: IEPs, 504s, accommodations, modifications. Even once you know what it all means, it’s not always easy to know which accommodations are best for your child or what they look like in the classroom. …
Combatting Homework Hassles
Many children have times when they struggle with homework. Understanding the challenges your child is facing can help you defuse homework battles before they start. From homework contracts to breaking down assignments, you will learn tips, strategies and resources to help you …
Parenting in the Balance: When to Intervene and When Not To
Are you exhausted from managing every assignment? From solving every conflict? From never having time to yourself? We all want our children to be happy, successful, and well-supported, but it’s hard to know how much to be involved in our children’s lives …
Digital Parenting Tips in the Age of Social Media
This webinar will provide you with crucial information regarding the technology that our children are accessing. While a healthy exposure to technology is beneficial, we also want to recognize the risks and possible pitfalls that are present. In addition, this presentation will …
Balancing Love and Limits with Your Teen: Effective Strategies for Parents
This webinar will focus on practical strategies for helping parents of adolescents find the balance between love and limits in effectively parenting their teen. Current thinking about adolescent development will be discussed with an emphasis on new findings from the fields of …
More Home, Less Work
This webinar designed to give parents tips, tools and strategies to transform the homework experience. Using organizational ideas, life skill lessons, empathy, understanding, and creativity – parents will be able to help both themselves and their children successfully and more calmly get …
Sensory Processing Strategies at Home
Do you suspect that your child’s over-reaction to sights, sounds, touch, or crowds is over the top? Does it seem like your child doesn’t tune in to what is going on around him/her? Does your child violate personal space, resist change and …
Helping Boost your Child’s Self Esteem
This workshop will explore the various aspects of self-esteem with practical and research based strategies for building genuine self-worth. Redefining a child’s image, training them in an “optimistic explanatory style”, and priming them for success are some techniques that will be covered. …
Supporting the Joy of Reading at Home
An important goal of education is to help children become readers. Summer is a perfect time to help children experiences the pleasures and benefits of reading. This webinar explores what parents can do at home to support and cultivate the joy of …
Sibling Sniping, Bedtime Battles, Homework Hassles…Are We Having Fun Yet?
Do you try to avoid threats, bribes, and punishments, but find yourself using them anyway, just to survive the day? Join us for a webinar with parenting expert Joanna Faber and learn how to help your child cope with difficult feelings, engage your child’s …
Making Bar and Bat Mitzvah Preparation More Joyful!
For twelve and thirteen year olds with learning differences and disabilities, the preparation for bar and bat mitzvah can be more stressful than joyous. For some, a learning process focused on Hebrew decoding, memorizing and speech writing can be an obstacle. …
Sustaining Motivation – A Delicate Balance
Ever wonder about how to encourage and support your child’s motivation? Is there a possibility that your child will do her chores without nagging or his homework without needling? In this webinar we will explore the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. …
“Nobody Wants to Be My Friend!”
Children spend most of their waking day in school among classmates. For many students, making and keeping friends is a struggle that may seem even more daunting than the most challenging learning difficulty. This webinar will help parents understand some of the basic …
Memory
Why is my child able to remember the names of all the students in his class and all the teachers in his school, but he can’t recall the multiplication facts? Or, why does my daughter remember all her cousins’ and aunts’ and …
Understanding Your Child’s Psychoeducational Assessment Report
You’ve had a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s functioning….now what?! In this webinar, we will review the different areas of a typical psychoeducational assessment report. The goal is to help parents understand the different areas assessed, including cognitive, academic, language, executive processes, …
Your Attention, Please!
Do you ever wonder about your child’s attention? Do you often hear yourself requesting (or begging) your child to “Pay attention,” “Stop day-dreaming,” or even “Stop moving around!”? Have you ever wondered (or been told by your child’s teacher) that attention issues …
Social Skills
As parents we are quick to intervene when our children need help with academic skills. Yet, when they struggle socially, we are often at a loss about how to help and sometimes even end up getting angry at the child. This webinar …
Study Skills
As partners in your child’s education, understanding the art and science of study skills will help you support your child’s learning process. This webinar offers an in-depth look at the skills students need to function in school and in the real world, …
Help Your Child Get Organized!
You would like your child to be more organized, get homework done before midnight, and remember to take his/her books to school each day. For some children, organization comes naturally, but for the others, organization skills need to be directly taught and …
Is My Child Typical? Understanding Variations in Child Development
How often we wonder why some children seem to easily accomplish tasks and achieve milestones while others struggle to keep up. As parents, the dilemma is whether to assume these differences are part of typical development or indicators of more significant challenges. …
