Proactive Parenting — How to Give Your Child the Parenting He or She Really Needs
 
Sharon Silver is a mom, an educator, and a powerful speaker who has. With an education in Parenting and Early Childhood Development, four certifications as a Parent Educator, and practical experience as the mother of two young adults, there's very little she hasn't seen. She offers a powerful and practical series of 'Seminars by Topic' on her website, as well as live in-person seminars at schools, corporations, universities and mom's groups. Over the last 17 years, parents, public and private school teachers, day-care directors and providers, corporations and service groups have all benefited from the programs she teaches about how to use a balanced, real-life approach when disciplining and teaching children.
 
Sharon's commitment to children and families resulted in her appearance on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show called "Hitting, Spanking, Smacking: Should it happen to your child?" She has been trained in the work of Rudolf Dreikurs and The Cline/Fay Institute, and has studied the work Ginott, Faber/Mazlish, Brazelton, and Ames/Ilg. Her mission has always been to create programs that help parents focus on what else can be done instead of going straight to punishment.
http://www.proactiveparenting.net
 
Topics include:

• Conscious resolution requires cooperation and teaching, not punishment
   
  
• 3 easy-to-remember ways to unravel, defuse respectfully resolve toddler and preschool misbehavior long before it gets to reacting, yelling or spanking!
   
  
• How to respond to the "true" needs a child has in a situation
   
  
• The message today's children have to help us heal our past
   
  
• Helping children find the answers for themselves