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Dana enjoys helping parents discover new ways to help their children thrive and create a calm family atmoshpere. She provides training for a variety of professional organizations and family groups. She can develop specific training to meet your group's needs. She often speaks to groups on the following topics:
Attachment:
- Ages and Stages of Development
- Attachment and the ADHD Connection
- Attachment Deficiencies
- Developing Healthy Attachment
- The Need to Feel Loved: Attachment Methods to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child
- Understanding and Working with Children with RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder)
Adolescent/Pre Adolescent Issues:
- Empowering Youth with Tools to Deal with Put Downs and Bullying
- Improving Body Image and Self-Esteem in Pre-Teens and Adolescence
- Parenting Your Teen
- Surviving the Teen Years
- Tweens and Teens: Adolescent Development
ADHD/Neurological Issues:
- Attachment and the ADHD Connection
- Could This be ADD/ADHD?
- Drug and Alcohol Effects on Children: Prenatal Exposure
- Impact of Drugs and Alcohol on Our Children
- Managing Children with Pre-Natal Drug Exposure and/or Alcohol Related Neuro-Developmental Disorder
- Survival Tools for Parenting Children with Neurological Deficiencies such as ADHD, Prenatal Drug Exposure and ARND
- 10 Days to Less Defiant Child
- 10 Days to a Less Distracted Child
- When Your Child Has ADHD
Behavioral Intervention Strategies:
- Behavioral Emergencies
- Children with Difficult Behaviors
- How to Win Homework Battles
- Outcomes of Working with Underachievers
- Parenting Children with Special Needs
- Practical Solutions For Difficult Behaviors
- Steps Towards Less Aggression and Violence
- Surviving the Holidays and No School
- The Explosive, Defiant and Discouraged Child
- When Your Child Doesn’t Listen and How To Get Them To Hear You
- When Your Child Lies, Manipulates and Steals
Child Development Issues:
- Ages and Stages of Development
- Building Moral Development
- Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues
- Character Under Construction
- Developing and Building Health Relationships
- Developing Motivation
- Developing Social and Friendship Skills for Children
- Fostering Integrity, Empathy and Moral Development
- Life Books: Important People and Places
- Parenting Your 1-4 Year Old
- Parenting Your School-Aged Child
- The Impact of Transitions on Friendships
Communication:
- Communication is Crucial
- Opening Communication and Dealing with Hard Topics
- Parenting: Communicating with Feelings
- When Your Child Doesn’t Listen and How To Get Them To Hear You
Emotional Issues:
- Dealing with Your Child’s Emotions
- Is Your Normal, My Normal
- Stress, Emotions and Feelings
- Transitions to a New School: Getting Children Ready
Families:
- Building Stronger Families
- Culture, Ceremonies and Rituals
- Enhancing Family Strengths
- Family Relationships: A Series
- Kinship: Ties that Bind: Working to Build Permanent and Stronger Families
- The Blended Family: Blending Families and Goal Setting to Strengthen Families
- Where Do My Shoes Go?
Parenting Tools:
- Are You Spoiling or Over-Nurturing Your Child?
- Becoming a Love and Logic Parent Curriculum
- Catch Your Child Being Good
- Cookbook Vs. Menu-based Approach to Parenting
- Effective Parenting for Spirited Children
- Empathetic Parenting
- Everyday Parenting Tools for Survival
- How Much Is Enough? Overindulgence and Your Child
- Making Parenting Fun
- Nutrition and Behavior
- Overindulgence, When Say Yes Hurts
- Parenting Challenges: Parenting the Child with An Attitude of Entitlement
- Parenting Kids to Become the People Employers Really Want and America
- Positive and Effective Parenting Techniques
- Seven Things You Need To Know to Raise Amazing Kids in Today’s World
- Really Needs
- S.O.S for Parents
- The ABC’s of Bullying
- The 5 “E”s of Parenting
- True Colors Parenting
- Turning Foes to Friends- School Success
- Understanding What Your Child is Capable Of
Self-Esteem:
- Building Resiliency and Positive Self Esteem In Our Children
- Day to Day Parenting: Building Self Image and Self Esteem
- 40 Assets: Building Resiliency Skills in Our Children
- Raising the Resilient Child
Self Improvement:
- Achieving Your Goals and Dreams
- Taming the Monster
Stress Management:
- Creating Balance, Choice and Power in Your Life
- Empowering Yourself: Taking Care of Self
- Eye Of The Storm
- Holiday Stress: Dealing with Loss and Grief Issues in Children
- Self Care and Self Help for Parents
- Refueling Your Tank
- Refueling Your Tank and Relieving Stress
Trauma Related Subjects:
- A.C.E. Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Attachment Deficiencies
- Beyond, Consequences, Logic and Control Curriculum
- Dare to Love: The Art of Merging Science with Love into Parenting
- Grief and Loss
- Helping Children Heal from Domestic Violence
- Parenting Rage Filled and Angry Children
- Taming the Monster
- The Need to Feel Loved: Attachment Methods to Build a Positive Relationship With Your Child
- Understanding and Parenting the Wounded Child
- Understanding and Working with Children with RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder)
Today's Quote
"A dysfunctional relationship happens when you ignore, deny and repress any emotion (love or anger). If you will feel, express and release your emotions appropriately (love or anger) you can create a positive experience."
- Michaiel