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Parenting Network is an approved supplier to the TDSB and have taught at schools throughout the GTA for 18 years.

Each workshop below can be presented in 1 – 2 hours, with time for questions and answers. We have given you topic details for a number of the workshops. If you wish detail on any others please get back to us. Our style of presentation is interactive, fun and informative.

Suggested and Past Workshops

Parenting Styles: Are you too controlling, not controlling enough?

• Unravel the choices and feel more confident with ‘how’ you want to parent
• Learn how your parenting style impacts your child’s behaviour
• Discover how to enjoy an effective and close relationship with your child.
• Develop long-term goals for your children and help them achieve essential life-skills
• Questions and answers

Winning Cooperation: Enjoy more harmony in your family relationships!

• Check out your family atmosphere: ways to make it more positive
• Listen from the heart, and how to get your child to listen
• Help your child feel more competent and capable
• 6 Tips That Invite Cooperation
• Questions  and  Answers

Encouragement: Preparing your child for life

• How we may unknowingly discourage our loved ones
• The difference between praise and encouragement
• Why one is detrimental and the other empowering
• The Top 10 Encouragement Skills.

Conflict Resolution Skills for Kids - Their Vaccination to Bullying

How to solve a problem between two people is the most important social skill parents can teach their children.  With practice and successes, they become capable of facing any conflict life serves up, whether it’s sharing on the school yard or solving conflict with confidence so there’s no chance it becomes systematized into bullying.

Improve Your Pre-Teen/Teen’s Independence and Self-esteem

• How to ensure a close, respectful relationship with your pre-teen/teen. Sets you both up for a more successful experience during the teen years.
• Develop your child’s self-reliance and independence
• Raise your child’s confidence and belief that “I can handle what comes my way!”

Listen and Communicate with your Pre-Teen/Teen Effectively

• How to listen so kids will talk
• How to talk without blame and shame
• Tips for increased cooperation and harmony in the home.

Popular topics among parents include

Avoid Power Struggles– stop the yelling, threats and anger

Siblings without Rivalry

How to say “no”

Chores, not Wars

Morning and bedtime struggles.