Joani's Seminars
My Seminars
Adolescent Psychology: The Parent Version
• Learn how the brain affects your teen’s behavior. It’s the battle of the thinking brain VS the feeling brain.
• Learn Effective strategies for arguing-The Four Ways Of Fighting.
• Develop effective strategies for keeping your teen safe as they explore
• Learn how to teen-proof your home and cell-proof your teen
Audience: parents of 10-18 year olds
Sexting. Texting and Social Networking: What’s A Parent To Do?
• Understand how the “emotional brain” of a teen gets “turned on” by social networking.
• Understand how the “Imaginary Audience” influences your teen’s performing on social media.
• Learn which apps are safe and unsafe
• Learn strategies to monitor and set limits around phone and internet use
• Learn how your own behavior with phones and computers can positively and negatively influence your teen.
Audience: parents of 10-18 year olds
Drugs and Alcohol and Vaping: How Does Your Teen’s Personality Style, and Your Parenting Style impact their experimentation with these substances?
• Identify your teen’s personality style and risk-factors with drugs and alcohol
• Identify your parenting style and how it influences your teen’s drug and alcohol use
• Learn effective strategies and scripts to keep your teen safe
Audience: parents of 10-18 year olds
College Bound
• Understand the emotional journey of your college bound high school student
• Understand the emotional journey of a parent of college bound high school student
• Learn strategies for making this process successful and positive
Audience : parents of 14-18 year olds
Understanding Your Child’s Temperament and Personality: Strategies For The Future
Is your child:
The adventurer
The lawyer
The child who always says no
The anxious/shy child
A combination of all
This seminar describes these personality styles and gives parents the strategies to bring out the best in their child both in the present and implications for their development from childhood through their teen years.
Audience: Parents of all ages
Joani’s Top Ten Parenting Tips
The secret to parenting is to keep it simple. Learn 10 simple, concrete practical tips useful in those daily moments of stress as a parent when you wish you had the "right thing to do and the right thing to say!
Audience: Parents with kids of all ages
Self-Efficacy: Developing Competence and Confidence in Your Children
• Why is self-efficacy so important?
• What can get in the way with your kids in developing competence and confidence?
• Strategies for building confidence and competence in your kids
Audience: Parents with kids of all ages
Sibling Rivalry: Why Can’t My Kids All Get Along
• Learn the development impact of age differences in sibling relationships and rivalry.
• Learn when to intervene and when to let nature take its course.
• Learn strategies for healthy sibling relationships
Audience: Parents with kids all ages
Parenting In A World Of Fear
Scary climate events, scary mass school shootings, scary world events and wars, scary job losses, pandemics, financial instability, abundant social media, and the list goes on. This is a challenging time to parent, and to be a child.
This seminar will:
• Give parents an understanding of how children of different ages process what is happening in our world and how it might affect their lives
• Give parents practical strategies and scripts to address their children's fears.
• Give parents strategies on making their kids feel safe.
Audience: Parents of kids of all ages
The Psychology of Grandparenting
Engaging, playful, and insightful seminars for today's grandparents
Adolescent Psychology: The Grandparents Version
• Learn how the changing adolescent brain affects your grandchild's behavior
• Learn new strategies for connecting and communicating with your grandchild
Understanding Personality & Temperament: The roadmap to that special connection
• Is your grandchild the little lawyer - everything is a negotiation?
• Is your grandchild shy and avoids new experiences?
• Is your grandchild a risk taker and scares the sh** out of you?
• Is your grandchild the party of NO?
Develop tools for connecting with your grandchild's temperament
Social Media & your Grandchildren: Managing Our Time Together
• Will they ever get off their phone, iPad, watch, computer and talk to me??
• Strategies for connecting without a device!
When to Step In, When to Step Back
• Learn to create healthy boundaries with your adult child
• Learn how to work with and create a partnership in raising their kids