Private Education

"Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises that call for a response.  The response is not without consequence:  It affects personality and self-regard for better or for worse.  Love is not enough.  Insight is insufficient.  Good parents need skill."  -Dr. Haim Ginott

Following a private consultation with clients to determine their specific needs, concerns and goals, Geri will custom design educational sessions and or workshops to meet the detailed needs of the particular individual or group.  These personalized educational services are a source of vital information that can be used in every stage of a family’s life as they grow and change together by providing them with knowledge, strategies and skills that can lead to more open and effective communication.

Private Individual Sessions for Parents
  • Personalized one-on-one instruction custom-designed to address specific needs, concerns and challenges that parents are encountering with their children.
  • Sessions will focus on child development, forming appropriate expectations and how parents can best support and communicate with their children during this particular stage.
  • Strategies and skills learned will increase empathy and understanding, creating an environment of cooperation, family harmony and lifelong loving relationships.

Private Group Sessions and Workshops for Parents
  • Personalized instruction custom-designed for your privately-formed parent group.
  • Researched based, interactive sessions and workshops designed to provide practical, effective tools that enable adults to communicate respectfully and successfully with children to promote cooperation, responsibility and confidence at home and school.  
  • Skills bring families closer together, and help to build a balance between work, play, school and family. 

Benefits of private education
  • Flexible location - You decide where the sessions are taught.  Meet at your home, school, church, or business.
  • Flexible schedule - Morning, afternoon or evening times available. Morning coffee talk.   Eat and learn lunches.  Evening wine and dine. 
  • Flexible size - You decide how few or how many participants attend. Form groups with neighbors, friends and family. Form groups from your school campus. Form groups from your church. Host eat and learn lunches for your employees.


Flexible Topics
  • Choose from our 7 or 9 week workshop series or choose specific topics to meet groups' needs.
  • Communication skills to improve family harmony and cooperation.
  • Understanding human needs and how these needs affect behavior.
  • Child development and forming appropriate expectations for children.
  • Recognizing, understanding and dealing with difficult feelings.
  • Steps that can be taken to ensure more effective discipline.
  • The benefits of mistakes and how to use these important opportunities to teach rather than punish children.
  • Calming sibling rivalry.
  • Finding balance between work, school and family. 
  • Importance of families working and playing together.
  • Ways to help children learn how to make amends, be accountable and learn from their mistakes or problems.
  • How to help children learn  to trust themselves to make good choices and become responsible, competent and resilient individuals.
  • Helping children to become self-reliant and autonomous.
  • The power of descriptive praise which can help build children's self-worth and lead to healthy motivation.
  • Chores, homework, and following family rules.
  • Preparing for peer pressure.  
  • How discipline, punishment, and rewards can impact a child's self-worth. 



Sessions available for Conferences
  • Understanding Growth and Development and How it Impacts Behavior in Young Children
  • Ages and Stages— Development  Birth to 18 Months (Infancy)
  • Ages and Stages— Development 18 Months to 3 Years (The Toddler Years)
  • Ages and Stages— Development 3 Years to 5 Years (The Preschool Years)
  • Ages and Stages— Development 6 through 8 (The Early School Years)
  • Ages and Stages— Development 9 through 10
  • Ages and Stages— Development 11 through 12
  • Ages and Stages— Development 13 through 17
  • Growing Strong Brains-Learning Through Play
  • Promoting Positive Behavior in Young Children
  • Understanding Temper Tantrums and Tears
  • Dealing With Anger
  • Why Won’t My Children Listen to Me?
  • Feeling Heard and Understood—Showing Our Children We Care
  • More Than One—Dealing With Sibling Rivalry
  • Clean Rooms and Other Challenges of Parenting
  • Grades and Homework—Whose Jobs Are They?
  • Peer Pressure—Giving Children and Parents the Power to Resist
  • Healthy Choices—Helping Children Learn Cause and Effect


Contact Geri for your free initial consultation.
All educational sessions begin with a free initial consult.  

We will work together to determine your specific needs, concerns, and goals and design educational sessions to get you the results you want.

Contact Geri to discuss private education.