Skillful Parenting: A Workshop for Parents of Strong-Willed Preschoolers

Dr. Hart recently conducted a School-Based Workshop for Parents of Strong-Willed Preschoolers at The Brooklyn Sandbox in Park Slope. 

Participants learned to identify when they are reacting to their children, rather than responding, and how to model effective self-regulation skills. By focusing on their own emotional states parents worked to respond wisely to their children while implementing clear behavioral strategies. Parents learned strategies to increase desirable behavior on the part of their child, decrease arguing and tantrums, and improve the quality of their parent-child interactions. Participates actively engaged in discussions around common parenting challenges, such as how to manage a meltdown in public, how to more effectively communicate with their co-parent, how to manage increased defiance related to having a new baby in the family, and how to respectfully engage grandparents when implementing new parenting strategies.