Pajama Parenting     2009 Tele-seminars 

Learn Proven Strategies for Increasing Your Effectiveness 

               Hot-button Topics Presented Weekly

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PST                Available Nationally                  Dial in From Home, No Babysitters and No Driving

Parenting Lecture Series – 25 Parenting Talks

Talks and Workshops

Balancing Love and Discipline

Introduces the concept of firm and kind, unconditional love, and the value of more action and less talk.

Balancing Work and Family 

Learn how to nurture yourself and your family so that your family supports your work.  Find the balance.

Consequences That Work 

Introduces the concepts of natural and logical consequences and how parents/teachers can effectively use them.

Creating Cooperative Families/Classrooms

Teach how to create a cooperative family/classroom atmosphere and what to do when there’s a lack of cooperation.

Effective Parent-Child or Teacher-Child Communication 

Introduce the concepts of listening, GEMS, handling feelings and conflict resolution.

Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem 

Demonstrate 10 methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem.

Getting in Step with Step Parenting

Learn how to work cooperatively with your ex and peacefully blend families.

Handling Aggressive Children in the Classroom

Explore developmental and learned aspects of aggression and 15 actions you can teach to correct this behavior.

Handling Sibling Rivalry

There is a difference between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict.  Show how to identify and correct each behavior.

How to Turn a Terrible Two into a Terrific Two

Use lots of developmental information and the mistaken goals of power and attention to make this difficult time wonderful.

“If You Don’t Stop Crying…”   How to Handle Children’s Feelings Show the effects of feeling stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with children’s feelings in each developmental stage.

Effectively Handling Power Struggles - “No, I Won’t and You Can’t Make Me!”  

Teach how to recognize and disengage from a power struggle and what to do to lessen them in the future.

“That’s It, You’re Grounded!”  Parent-Teen Communication

How to effectively communicate with your teen, set clear boundaries, and understand what happened to my child!

Parenting as a Team

Discover the underlying causes of couple’s disagreements on parenting and show how to create peaceful resolution.

Raising a Child with God

Show how using the RCB principles can assist parents in the spiritual and religious development of their children.

Taking the Hassles out of Homework

Lessen the power struggle, teach responsibility and goal setting and demonstrate ways to encourage and self-motivate children.

Tame Those Tantrums

Teach the concept of how less power means more.  Teach how to diagnose tantrums and prevent them in the future. 

Teaching Children Self-Control

Within developmental guidelines, show how it is the parents’/teachers’ job to assist the child in learning how to control and appropriately express their feelings and desires.

Tell Them What To Do, Not What To Don’t

Teach how a small shift in speech can create more cooperative, responsible children.

What to Do When Your Kids Drive You Crazy

Show some alternatives to nagging, yelling and threatening and how to model self-control.

Asking for What You Want

Demonstrate how to understand and overcome this difficulty and how to successfully negotiate.

Couples Communication

Enhance skills to create closeness, teach how to hear and be heard and have fun!

Creating Teamwork

Teach underlying concepts of teamwork and how to make it happen at home and work.

Keeping Yourself Encouraged (and Spreading it Around)

Show how to encourage yourself and those around you to achieve more in every area of life.

Resolving Conflicts

Demonstrate the power of conflict resolution and negotiating to a win-win.

Complimentary Brochures

A list of requests your child would make if she knew how to…

Creating Happy Campers Through Involvement

One of the best ways to have your child enjoy her camp experience is to have her help you to choose it....

Countdown for A Self-Esteem Summer

“My child (children) will go back to school in August with higher self esteem than they are experiencing right now....”

The Language of Encouragement

Although there are times when praise can be encouraging, parents will be most effective if they avoid praising children too often. "Encouragement" helps our children believe in themselves...

10 Keys to Successful Parenting

Ten keys which provide your children with a sense of well-being and security.

9 Things to do Instead of Spanking

Many parents instinctively don't like to spank their children, but they dont know what else to do.

Setting Limits

Limits are not designed to control or manipulate someone else' behavior.

8 Ways to Teach Values to Your Children

92 percent of us want our children to have better manners and values.

The Art of Avoiding Power Struggles with Your Children

The more we can do to give our children appropriate ways to feel powerful, the less power struggles we will have with them.

Bedtime Without Hassles

How you can have your children go to bed in a timely manner and have more time for yourself.

Motherhood, Miracles, and Mistakes

Mother to mother, or parent to parent, we can share the lessons we’ve learned from our mistakes. My guess is that is what gives some value to the mistake and inspires us to continue to strive to be a better parent.

100 Yard Dash

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What matters in this life is helping others win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course.

Striking Controversy--Parents Ask, To Spank or Not to Spank?

As every parent (and many children) knows, one of the great dilemmas of parenting is whether or not spanking is a good means of disciplining a child.

Adults' Harsh Words Take Emotional Toll on Kids

"You can't say that it's better to scold your child than to beat (them). When you punish a child you give (them) the feeling that (he or she) isn't worth anything,"

Parent Resource Center

Carter-Kelly Consulting in conjunction with INCAF have an abundance of parenting resources that are right for parents of young children or teens, teachers, mental health professionals and many more. We offer both online parenting classes as well as personal instruction.

Online Parenting Classes, Articles,

Books, CDs and more!

The new Parent Practices Newsletter - Parenting News You Can Use

CEU's for Professionals

The Family Puzzle Online Parenting Course

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