Peaceful Parents,    Happy Kids

Creating the Relationship You Want with Your Child

Tuesday, December 5 at 7pm at Natick High School

— For parents and caregivers (all ages)

Leading author, expert and creator of the popular Aha! Parenting blog, Laura Markham, PhD, discusses how you can create the relationship you want with your child. 

• Why children misbehave -- and how to help them WANT To cooperate without yelling, threats, bribes or consequences
• What research shows about how children develop self-­discipline
• The four power tools you can use to connect with children and help them with their emotions
• Why yelling and timeouts actually cause more misbehavior
•  Talk includes Q and A to help parents apply these ideas to their own families.

— Lead Sponsors: MutualOne Charitable Foundation, The Tobin Family of Schools, SPARK Kindness

Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life, which continue torack up daily five star reviews on Amazonas parents attest to the power of herapproach of connection, coaching, andparental self-regulation.

As a speaker, Dr. Laura—as her readers call her—helps parents laugh, cry,and transform their relationships with their children. Dr. Laura is the founding editor of AhaParenting.com, an extensive website serving up Aha! Moments to parents of babies through teens. A leading advocate for parents and children, she makes frequent TV and radio appearances and has been featured in hundreds of publications from Parents Magazine to the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Laura has worked as a parenting coach with countless families across the English-speaking world and reaches a world-wide audience with her online parenting course. Over 100,000 parents subscribe to her blog posts via email; many more follow her onFacebook and Twitter. Dr. Laura says that earning her PhD in clinical psychology at Columbia University was just the beginning of her education as a psychologist. The mother of a teenager and a young adult; she says becoming a mother convinced her that parents need more support. Her aspiration, she says, is to change the world, one child at a time, by supporting parents.