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Recordings from the conference "Conscious Parenting and Learning," Australia 2012. 7 hours of lectures and questions and answers for the price of 6 hours. Buy the full event at a discount (one class free) for $80. The 5 talks can also be purchased individually: $15 each for the hour long classes, and $20 each for the hour and a half classes.
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Conscious Parenting (Full Event) |
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves
1. Introduction
2. The culture assumes that children need to be fixed
3. Radical Statements
4. Introduction to questions
5. Question: When your child wants you to do something you don't want to do
6. Question: Child resists being in car seat
7. Question: Three year old too aggressive when nursing
8. Question: Grandparents giving your child things you don't want
9. Question: When a child gets frustrated with a difficult play activity
10. Question: When a ten year old is exposed to unwanted influences through friends
11. Question: When should children start music lessons?
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Raising Children Without Timeout, Threats or Punishment |
The Price of Praise
1. Introduction
2. Why praise doesn't get us what we want
3. Question: If an older child wants to try drinking or smoking
4. Why praise doesn’t get us what we want (cont.)
5. Question: The relationship between sports and praise
6. Summing up the harm of praise
7. What to do instead of praise
8. Question: Interacting with a toilet-training child
9. Question: How to respond to a child who’s very excited with what they did
10. Question: What about when we are genuinely excited?
11. Example from participant - What happens when you praise
12. Comment from participant - The business of praise is very modern
13. Question: When teachers praise our children
14. Question: Does praising between adults set a bad example for children?
15. Question: When a child asks “do you like it?”
16. Points on praise
17. Question: Is it praise to tell children that they were "helpful"?
18. Question: How to interact with a child who’s drawing something
19. Making sure children feel valued
20. Question: How to deal with an older child hitting a younger child
21. Question: What impact does praise from others have on our children?
22. Question: Changing parenting methods on your children
23. Question: When children want feedback
24. Comment from participant - How to best coach children
25. Question: When a child says “I can’t play like my mother” about piano
26. Question: When a child asks for help
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The Price of Praise |
The Case Against Teaching
1. Introduction - The problem of teaching
2. Learning happens best self-directed
3. Striving for excellence
4. Question: How to find good teachers
5. Question: Distinguishing over-teaching from guidance
6. Question: Teaching to read at very young ages
7. Question: Correcting speech?
8. Question: When a child is frustrated with striving for excellence
9. Unschooling vs. Freedom
10. Question: How exactly to respect a child's freedom
11. Question: How much media to allow children
12. Question: When a child appears to thrive on media
13. Question: Eating healthy
14. Question: When children want too much
15. Question: Husband got an iPad
16. Question: How long to not allow sugar?
17. Question: Recommendations for healthy goodies
18. Question: How to enter a competition without ego
19. Question: What to do with child eating snot
20. Question: When a stranger gives your child sugar
21. Question: Creating excellence in children in areas unfamiliar to you
22. Comments of support about restricting sugar
23. Question: When a child asks why he felt what he felt
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The Case Against Teaching |
The Zen of Bedtime and of Other Daily Delights
1. Introduction - We don't 'put children to bed'
2. Question: When you have to work late at night
3. Question: Only opportunity for alone time with spouse is when child is asleep
4. Question: When a child doesn't know that he/she is hungry
5. Question: Is it okay to read to a child to help them go to sleep? And general sleeping issues.
6. Question: When children move around a lot during the night.
7. Question: Children having a second wind; "overtired."
8. Comment: Children, diet and sleep, followed by general comments about diet
9. Question: When a child's sleep pattern is out of sync with the parents
10. Question: When family is disgusted by the way you do things (featuring a mock conversation)
11. Question about the Steiner schools
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The Zen of Bedtime and of Other Daily Delights |
The Social Needs of Children are Not What You Think
1. Introduction - Our current mindset about children’s social needs
2. What children need socially
3. Question: What if an older child doesn’t want to play with a younger child?
4. Question: Can siblings close in age play together?
5. Question: How do you approach two toddlers fighting?
6. Question: Should I be playing more child-like games with my 3 year old?
7. Sibling Rivalry
8. Question: When a child really wants to play with a sibling who doesn’t want to
9. Question: Should we focus on what might be going on for two children who reject a third playmate?
10. Question: What to do when a child is ‘out of control’?
11. Question: What to do about name calling
12. Question: Letting a child know that certain words could upset people
13. The tendency to protect other adults from our children
14. Question: When a child says something rude to a stranger
15. Question: When a child picks up a stranger’s belongings
16. Question: Teaching a child how things work in the world
17. Question: When a child is embarrassed
18. Question: When your relatives try to parent your child
19. Question: When a child reports mistreatment by another adult
20. Question: Is it okay to sometimes protect other adults from our children?
21. Question: When a child lies to you
22. Question: Four year old wants to play with mom all the time
23. Question: When a child decides they want to go to school
24. Question: How to apologize to children for mishandling a situation
25. Question: Is it okay to move children around?
26. Question: How to respond when somebody criticizes you
27. Question: How to make time for your marriage
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The Social Needs of Children are Not What You Think |
This recording is a magazine interview covering the issue of the harm of punishment and how to raise a child who behaves well of her own free will.
Themes covered:
• How punishment and timeout backfire and cause aggression
• Resolving problems peacefully
• Preventing behavioral issues
• The cause of aggression in children
• The harm of punishment, threats and timeout (no matter how gently done.)
• Advice for daycare and kindergarten teachers
• The emotional harm of compliance
• What the child needs in order to behave her best
• Solutions through connection.
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Raising Children Without Timeout, Threats or Punishment |
Listen to this 40-minute Newsweek Japan interview with Naomi Aldort that focuses on the following themes:
• How much should I focus, stimulate, and play with my baby/toddler and what is too much?
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Newsweek Japan Interview - MP3 Download: $10 |
This teleclass focuses on two themes:
• How to validate your child's feeling without teaching emotional drama
• Developing your child's intelligence from baby through teens
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October 16, 2011 Teleclass - MP3 Download: $20 |
Listen as Sandi Schwartz of Leading Edge Parenting interviews Naomi Aldort about "Raising Responsible & Cooperative Children Without Using Control" in this 52 minute download.
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Raising Responsible & Cooperative Children Without Using Control - MP3 Download: $10 |
Listen to an interview of Naomi Aldort introducing her philosophy:
• When your child hits the baby
• Behavior
• Crying
• Naomi's personal path
• Baby care
• Good behavior without punishment or control
• Naomi's children's stories
• Securing that they won't fall for peer pressure and drugs as teens
• The trouble with praise and children who please their parents
• Music lessons or not
• Developing independence
• Raising Powerful and Authentic children
• The magic of POWER GAMES in healing your child's emotions and restoring peace.
These topics are discussed in the following 1 hour download.
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Take The Struggle Out of Parenting |
This question is answered in the following 42 minute download:
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