Live Workshop Growing Up Without Punishment: A Course on Respectful Discipline
Want to parent differently? But not sure how? Do you want to create a positive lifelong bond with your child, and avoid threats, yelling, and punishment? Do you sometimes (or often) end up threatening, yelling, or punishing, or otherwise disconnecting from your child? Or do you keep it all in, but feel exhausted and angry inside?
Regardless of whether you are just about to have a child or are already a parent of young or older children (or grandparent or caregiver of some form), this course will help you gain a deeper understanding of children’s needs, why it is important to meet them, and how you can meet them in a way that works for your family.
Just like a cactus cannot thrive when it is planted in a place that has lots of rain and little sun (such as Vancouver in Canada, for example), children also cannot thrive when their needs aren’t met. Understanding the needs and emotions underlying children’s behavior makes punishment (and other forms of disconnection) unnecessary and leads to better behavior in the long run. This may sound counterintuitive, but when we look at other cultures and the way we have parented for most of our evolutionary history, we see that children whose needs are met, are much happier, kinder, and more confident and competent than children whose needs don’t get met and who are instead punished in some form. And they also cooperate more in household chores and become independent at a younger age.
To be able to meet children’s needs and hold space for their emotions it is important to have a deeper understanding for both. But it is just as important to better understand our own triggers and why it can be so hard for us to stay calm. So in this course you will also gain a deeper understanding of why we get so triggered by our children sometimes – without any shame or blame – and ways to help meet our own needs better.
Saturday, February 24, 10:00am to 12:00pm PT
37 USD (Recording available after workshop)
Parents who have taken this workshop before tell me that they feel more connected to their child, are better able to stay calm and have compassion in moments of stress, have more alternative tools to punishment, understand their own triggers better, and have begun to question some of the assumptions they have internalized from society that may not be so helpful for their family.
What’s included?
2-Hour Live Video Workshop on Zoom: In this 2-hour live workshop, you will get the opportunity to learn and engage with the material I will cover.
Q+A: Bring your questions! For those who attend the workshop live, once I have covered the content, I will give the floor to you, and you can ask anything you would like.
Respectful Discipline Handout: You will also get a summary handout of the entire content of the workshop that you can refer back to any time you want.
Activity Sheet: You will further get an activity sheet that walks you through the different steps we cover as it applies to your unique situation. You can fill this out for as many challenging issues as you would like.
Access to the Recording: Can’t make it live? Or want to watch it again? No problem, after the workshop, you will receive access to the recording for 6 months.
About Me
Hello, I’m Anita, mom, I have a Ph.D. in Psychology, and am the founder of growing up connected. My hope is that one day all children grow up connected to their bodies, themselves, their families, and the world at large. Understanding what children need to thrive and how to relate to them in a way that both fosters our relationship with them as well as allows them to develop into confident, competent, kind, and cooperative people, and understanding how our own upbringing has shaped us and learning to treat ourselves with the same acceptance and compassion we strive to treat our children with, will help us create a world (and life) filled with joy and love. I am on this journey myself with my own family and hope to support as many families as I can.