Online Workshops for Parents and Kids
Online Workshops for Parents and Kids
Learn at your convenience! These entertaining and practical recorded workshops from psychologist and author Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, offer research-based tips about parenting and children’s feelings and friendships.
All workshops are divided into 2- to 9-minute pieces, so you can easily watch bit-by-bit or all the way through.
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Online Workshops for Kids
Online Workshops for Parents
Recorded Conversation Hours for Parents
Online Workshops are prepared presentations with engaging slides. Recorded Conversation Hours are informal question-and-answer sessions.
Online Workshops for Kids
* Friendship Skills – FOR KIDS!
for ages 6-12
This entertaining workshop offers practical ideas for handling common friendship rough spots, such as making new friends, handling arguments, and dealing with teasing. It describes the five essential skills every child needs to learn about making and keeping friends. (76 min.)
* Dealing with Feelings about Friends – For KIDS!
for ages 6-12
Kids' biggest feelings are often about friends. This fun and thought-provoking workshop helps kids learn to understand, cope with, and communicate about their own and others' feelings. (58 min.)
Online Workshops for Parents
* Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Build Real Self-Esteem
Trying to improve children's self-esteem directly often backfires. This workshop discusses common self-esteem challenges such as feeling friendless, giving up easily, and struggling with feeling different. You'll learn practical ways to help your child develop genuine confidence by connecting with something bigger than themselves. (62 min.)
* Helping Siblings Get Along
Feeling overwhelmed by the constant bickering, tattling, and teasing between your children? You're not alone. This honest and supportive offers useful strategies, backed by research and real-life experience, to help you transform sibling conflicts into opportunities to learn essential social skills. (63 min.)
* Teaching Kids Respect in a Disrespectful World
Many parents find themselves baffled and dismayed by behavior from children that would have been unthinkable when they were growing up. In this workshop, I’ll discuss social trends in our less-than-civil society and offer practical, research-based strategies parents can use to address common challenges. (68 min.)
* Emotion Coaching: Help Your Child Cope with Big Feelings
The most challenging moments in parenting often involve big feelings. This workshop offers ways to prevent or shorten your children’s emotional meltdowns. You'll learn how to help your child understand and manage negative feelings and enjoy more positive feelings. (48 min. + Q&A)
* Friendship in the Digital Age
This recording of a live presentation by Dr. Eileen looks at how digital media affects how children communicate and socialize. It explores video game playing, cyberbullying, and social media "depression," and compares them to similar behaviors in person. It also discusses some recent research on how children behave online and gives practical recommendations for parents. (87 min.)
* Parenting During Uncertain Times
Uncertain times can be hard on families and overwhelming for parents. This workshop offers helpful recommendations for addressing the most common and challenging responses from children to stressful times: feeling anxious, feeling lonely, being uncooperative, being glued to screens, or squabbling with siblings. It also offers tips for taking care of ourselves during tough times. (50 min.)
Conversation Hours for Parents
* Helping Your Anxious Child
Get expert advice on how to help your child manage fears and anxiety. Dr. Eileen answers questions from parents about how to help kids who are afraid to sleep alone, have social anxiety, worry a lot, and much more! (58 min.)
* Friendship Matters: Answering YOUR Questions about Children’s Friendships
This recorded conversation hour delves into the most pressing questions from parents about kids and friendship. It covers a wide range of topics, from how to deepen casual friendships to recognizing when others feel left out. It also explores the distinction between meanness and bullying, plus how to handle teasing that goes too far. (60 min.)
Making Up and Breaking Up With Friends
Most friendships hit occasional rough spots. Misunderstandings, disagreements, and hurt feelings are common but often painful experiences in children’s friendships. This recorded Q&A session addresses questions about how to help your child handle conflicts with friends. (38 min.)
* Q&A ABOUT KIDS’ FEELINGS
You’ve got questions. Here are answers you can use. This recorded conversation hour focuses on parents’ day-to-day challenges in helping kids cope with big feelings. (34 min.)