Is your Child Difficult or Different?
Practical Tools to Celebrate Difference, Unlock Strengths and Provide Hope
You play a vital role in unlocking children’s potential and maximising their strengths, but In order to do that, you need to understand your child and their needs.
You may have a sense that your child is wired differently, but you don’t know what the problem is, or how to help and support. This webinar shows how with the right connection and communication skills, we can all help such children develop into thriving, resilient adults.
This webinar tells the true story of parenting coach Elaine Halligan’s son Sam, who by the age of seven was so difficult, he had been excluded from three schools and written off in society as stupid and naughty. Through the support of his parents who undertook training in positive parenting skills and explored different therapies and interventions, and accessing the right educational environment, he then went on to become Head Boy in his final school year and is now an intrepid entrepreneur and adventurist.
We’ll show you how you too can unlock your child’s potential and celebrate all the unique qualities your child can bring to society.
This talk covers these questions:
- The Story of Sam and how he became known as the Alphabet Kid
- Why it’s so important to understand a child’s needs educationally and socially
- The importance of being compassionate and not punitive
- An overview of some of the special educational needs to look out for
- Understanding your child’s temperament in order to understand behaviour
- How to be a child’s emotion coach to enable them to process their feelings
- The importance of connecting and getting to know your child
By the end of the webinar, you’ll be able to :
- Understand the importance of pressing a pause button and seeing that the child may not be BEING a problem but HAVING a problem
- Understand why negative language and labelling can have a detrimental impact on self esteem
- Appreciate the importance of understanding social and educational needs in order to reframe expectations
- Start to acknowledge their child’s temperament and what role this plays in helping parents be compassionate and not punitive
- Appreciate the role of acknowledging feelings in helping children regulate, manage and move on from the emotions surrounding set backs
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The webinar content is available to you for 12 months from the date of purchase.