Why Bother Taking this Course?
Do any of these situations sound familiar when your child is grappling with intense emotions and their behavior becomes challenging?
- Feeling the Urge to Avoid or Distract: Do you often feel inclined to sidestep or distract yourself from the complex emotions your child is experiencing?
- Experiencing Denial or Frustration: When your child openly expresses their feelings, do you find yourself struggling with denial, engaging in argumentative conversations, or feeling unexpectedly frustrated?
- Sensing Confusion or Being Overwhelmed: Are you frequently caught in a whirlwind of confusion or feel completely swamped by the depth and intensity of your child's emotional states?
It's completely natural to encounter these reactions as a parent. You're not alone in this journey. Our online course is thoughtfully crafted to provide you with the compassionate understanding and practical tools needed to navigate these challenging situations. Join us to discover a path towards nurturing a more empathetic and supportive environment for both you and your child. Your journey towards understanding and connection starts here.
What You'll Learn:
Most parents feel pressured to have well-behaved children. The pressure often comes from well-meaning family, teachers, and judgmental stares from strangers. The pressure heightens when our children have difficult behavioral habits that we don't know how to cope with yet.
In this course, we will accomplish the following:
- Help you understand what normal “difficult” behavior looks like.
- Learn how to use routines, rules, and rituals to prevent difficult behavior.
- Provide practical tools to help your children shift their challenging behavior.
Course Includes:
- Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Delve into the fundamentals of emotional intelligence, learning what it is and why it's crucial for both you and your child.
- Guiding Your Child Through Emotions: Discover strategies to teach your child how to experience their emotions fully, yet not be overwhelmed by them.
- Maintaining Calm During Tantrums: Learn effective techniques to stay composed and supportive when your child is having a tantrum.
- Fostering Empathy in Your Child: Understand the steps to teach empathy to your child, an essential skill for their emotional development.
- Enhance your learning with our carefully designed worksheets that complement each video lesson. These resources are crafted to reinforce your understanding and help you reflect on key concepts.
- To aid in applying what you've learned, we provide practical action items. These suggestions are tailored to seamlessly integrate the course's insights into your everyday parenting.
- Plus, as a bonus, gain access to 5 additional videos that supplement and expand upon the course material, offering deeper insights and extended learning opportunities!
Why Learn from Lina?
Lina Acosta Sandaal, MA, LMFT is a psychotherapist, development expert, writer, and founder of Stop Parenting Alone, a parenting education and consulting program in Miami, FL. She is a writer on social emotional learning for Macmillan Education, the human development expert for Telemundo’s national broadcasts and consultant for MomsRising, an advocacy group for family rights in our nation’s capital. Her mission is for all parents to fall in love with their parenting journey.
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