1. Helping Your Child Manage Screen Time
- Time management worksheets to discuss and agree on set times for phone or video games usage
- Schedule screen time and learn to live with devices because they are here to stay
- Awareness of life skills using examples and scenarios to help children understand the teachable moments of losing a job and real life consequences such as not having money to pay for next month’s phone service…
- Safety – How to have conversations with your child regularly about “stranger danger” on devices video games, and other social media apps
2. Managing Anxiety and Positive Coping Skills
- Statistics on our kids’ % of anxiety coming out of Covid
- % of kids with social anxiety at schools and getting jobs will help. Practice in small groups – dinner topics to grow kid’s social skills
- Retrain your brain – build skills and healthy thinking/guidance to help kids build self-esteem
- Handouts – positive coping vs. negative unhealthy coping skills, model healthy choices for kids
- Communicate with praise vs. criticism handouts/slides that depict reality
3. Routines to Live By
- Inspired by the book – How to Raise an Adult
- School is your first job – what we learn
- Work as a team player – get along with peers/problem solve, manage emotions about others/everyone is not your best friend/be realistic, learn to coexist – such as on sports teams
- Social skills games for dinner
- Adults are the bosses – learn to respect their job and role and work alongside them Know their role is to guide you and your job is to learn and grow (same as at home)
- How will school skills help with your future job skills? Role-play conversations with your kids
4. Co-parenting through Divorce
- Understand your child’s losses and stress and state empathy (Spare legacy of negativity in child’s future – multi-generational transmission process)
- Keep life as routine as possible. Kids thrive from predictable schedules and feel safe
- Work with the other parent. Different rules at different homes can work as long as they are in the best interest of the child
- Communication/schedule coordination via text and email/reduce confusion with other divorce issues
- Avoid putting child in the middle. Kids need to focus on school, development, peers, coping with stress (as modeled by parents)
- Find respectful words to explain what didn’t work and why parents grew apart (modeling mature treatment of family)
5. Suicide
- How to identify the warning signs
- Work on a supportive plan
- Teach and model positive coping skills
- Decrease isolation and recklessness
- Create a warm, fun, and friendly family environment
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