Today, parents face more stress than ever but might not have learned healthy coping skills from their own parents. Doing the opposite can also be unhealthy. Break the cycle for the next generation by learning how childhood created subconscious patterns and trigger buttons and get tools to reduce stress, deprogram triggers, stay calm and communicate effectively.

Whether you are raising children or supporting parents, or working with people who behave like children, it’s common to see emotions play out in challenging or annoying behaviors. In this interactive webinar, you will get a conversational formula to use in a variety of situations, that helps develop and demonstrate emotional awareness --- both ours and others, personal and professional.

Children with a trauma history experience the world uniquely, because of the ways trauma wires their brain and body. So their caregivers need to look at, interpret and respond to children’s behavior through a trauma-informed lens. There are 4 core research-based practices all parents need to know and use that are essential when parenting children with a trauma history. Attend this session to: Understand how child...

Today's stressful world has added more layers to the challenges of daily parenting. Particularly, the interaction between grandparents, grandchildren, and parents can be difficult when parenting challenges arise. This webinar provides information to improve understanding about today's "generation gap" and offers tools for closing or bridging that gap by improving communication between parents and grandparents.

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), with Lindsay Burkhardt of Families Flourish of N. Dakota. She will tell you what you can do to prevent CSA, risk factors, red flags to look for, and what to do if you suspect CSA. EVERY parents, grandparent, and family service professional will benefit from attending this FREE webinar!

Become a more balanced, conscious parent, by integrating your logic, emotions, and intuition. Use a simple, reliable, and proven-effective decision-making parenting plan and see your parenting journey from spiritual perspective.   Get practical research-based parenting tools you can use right away, every day.

Get this bundle of resources specifically collected and curated for Conscious Parents Become a more balanced, conscious parent, by integrating your logic, emotions, and intuition. Use a simple, reliable, and proven-effective decision-making parenting plan and see your parenting journey from spiritual perspective.   Get practical research-based parenting tools you can use right away, every day, to prevent common pa...

Creating memories are essential to the lives of our youth. In this training session you will gain helpful pointers on creating a Lifebook for your youth from the perspective of a former foster youth. 

This workshop discusses how to build strong family foundations by focusing on identifying values, communication, and having intentional conversations to enhance the family unit.  Participants receive the Creating the Family Manual  e-book for guided application. 

 Trauma can affect a child's behavior in many ways. It can be confusing at times to know what’s causing behavior like acting out or throwing a tantrum. After attending this session, you’ll understand:what trauma is, how it affects the bodies and minds of children, how to identify the triggers that start unexpected behavior. You’ll also get helpful information on identifying the difference between behavioral acts a...

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Discussion of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Warning about “Dangerous Levels of Parental Stress.” Parents share their stressors, grandparents share their challenges in offering their adult children and grandchildren support, and family service professionals offer information, inspiration, and practical parenting tools. The report is at https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/parents/index.html

Like many parents today, you want to raise your child differently and more effectively than you were. But doing the opposite of bad advice isn’t always better. Some “old” parenting advice is true, while some are myths like “holding a baby spoils them.” Join our webinar to learn how to spot bad advice, what to do instead, and how to parent confidently despite criticism.

If you are a parent or a professional who supports parents, you’ll want to attend this webinar to learn more about this issue and gain practical solutions for using a Balanced parenting style to eliminate or manage the 5 most common distractions parents face and reconnect with your child.

There's nothing simple about parenting but you can be successful! This new book covers important strategies for positive relationship-building, no matter the age of your child. Using the acronym E.N.R.I.C.H., Dr. Debbie walks you through 14 different topics that support the parent-child relationship. Attending this webinar to find out what E.N.R.I.C.H. entails, hear humorous stories, detailed examples, and practice.

Feeling stressed? Relief is literally at your fingertips! Almost everyone is feeling super-stressed these days, with all the stressors that are impacting our health, economy, children and family relationships, communities, country, and world. Such prolonged stress takes its toll on your physical, emotional and mental health, while drama can drain you or even trigger old traumas, hurts, fears and phobias.

Most of us in America are ill-equipped to manage our own emotions due to lack of priority of this as a skill in our education systems and society as a whole.  Chronic stress and inability to manage difficult emotions has shown in research to have detrimental effects on our mental health, physical health, interpersonal relationships and more. By being empowered with the knowledge and importance of emotional regula...

Featuring Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE Family councils are important for ALL families, especially when bringing new foster children into your family.  In this webinar, you'll discover how to help each person feel like an important, contributing member of the family team, enrich family relationships, and help you make decisions and resolve conflicts in ways that meet everyone’s needs.

Every family is complicated, and dealing with addiction makes them even more complicated. If you or your loved has reached a certain level of sobriety, you’ve discovered that just being sober doesn’t heal the emotional wounds inflicted on family members and loved ones. There’s still a lot of hurt, anger, resentment, and trust issues that must be resolved.  Now that you’re healthy as a person, you want to be in he...

When faced with a resistant child, it is tempting to want to bribe or punish. This workshop shows you how even the most resistant behaviors can be transformed by using only positive and supportive words and actions that foster self-motivation in children, who then want to cooperate. Attend this webinar to learn simple methods for assessing and addressing even the most unwanted behaviors in children.

Trauma can cause children to shut down emotionally, or become emotionally numb, which can lead to long-term problems, like using drugs and alcohol to numb emotional pain, depression, self-harming, and even mental health issues. Once children learn how to work through their emotions, they can heal from trauma and become more resilient. Join Heather McCall, CFLE, to learn more about how trauma impacts emotional dev...

Resilience used to be a word only associated with trauma, but prolonged adversity or toxic stress can get programmed into the body like a trauma. This edu-taining webinar takes the 6 biggest stressors almost everyone has experienced in 2020, looks at the effects such stressors are causing, then reveals the 7 C's of Resilience, and how to foster these in yourself and your children in these 6 key stress areas. (Fr...

The Language of Emotions is possibly the most important language every human needs to know. It's what gives color to life, promotes connection between people, and fosters intuition. Yet most people were taught not to feel, or that it's only okay to feel "good" emotions. Fully experiencing emotions doesn’t have to involve drama, crying or extreme reactions. When it does, especially with your children, you need to ...

When life feels overwhelming, it’s easy to lose sight of your needs and hit burnout. In this empowering webinar, Women’s Empowerment Coach Andrea Amador, CEC—M.N.L.P., shares practical tools to help parents and caregivers turn self-doubt into self-trust, set loving boundaries, and choose themselves first without guilt—through self-love, mindfulness, and simple grounding practices.

Is Bedtime a Nightmare at YOUR House? When you announce that it’s bedtime, does pandemonium break out?  Getting children to bed on time, asleep, and staying there is one of the most common challenges parents face.  In this webinar, you get creative ideas and practical solutions so bedtime is a fun, pleasant experience for everyone. Get practical solutions to the most common bedtime hassles parents experience.  W...

This webinar offers simple tips for positive, healthy communication. Making small changes to what you say and how you say it can create huge, positive improvements in your communication, your relationship, and children’s behavior.

Are bio parent visits re-traumatizing your foster child? Do they grieve their loss every time? Do they get anxious before the visit or have meltdowns and act out after visits, or take a few days (or more) to re-adjust, all in time to visit again!  While every bio parent rightfully has the right to visit their children, it can be upsetting for all involved. In this 1-hour course, you will learn some helpful tips t...

 Having a full toolkit of skills to manage behavior and comfort and support kids during the “feelings overload” that can occur at the time of visitation is an important part of being a confident foster parent with a (mostly) relaxed and happy kid. Visits trigger all sorts of memories and reactions, and foster parents need the emotional bandwidth to help kids to identify emotions, express them, soothe themselves an...

"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for life." --- Ancient proverb. Parents can do too much for children, depriving them of opportunities to learn life skills. Here are some great tools for teaching children tasks, skills, behaviors & values that foster independence & responsibility — so you can let go and trust your child's decision-making skills.

Explore modern fatherhood in this engaging, research-based course. Learn how today’s dads navigate evolving roles, build strong co-parenting relationships, model healthy masculinity, and parent with purpose. Gain practical tools for connection, discipline, and emotional growth—ideal for fathers and those who support them.

Prevent stress from bubbling over and anger from erupting by using the practical tools in this workshop. Discover two simple steps any adult or child can take to create an individualized stress and anger management plan. Understand what’s happening under the surface during anger, how trauma triggers get wired in, and how toxic emotions can create dis-ease. Then learn how to de-program and re-wire these cellular m...

Complete this 18-hours series, with videos of LIVE foster-adoptive parent training workshops! Lay a balanced foundation upon which to build your family, then use research-based, trauma-informed, proven-effective, parenting skills to support the children you care for to heal from their trauma and regain developmental delays. This course is a pre-requisite for Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Trainer certification.

Listen to this one-hour audio to get cooperation the first time you ask — without nagging, power struggles, threats, or punishment! The one tool you can use to prevent power struggles, stop them, and reveal discipline. Foster self-motivation in children without bribes, incentives, stickers, or rewards. Understand why children do what you just told them not to do — and how to prevent this.

Pause, Be Present, Be Patient is an engaging virtual training designed to enhance connection and increase communication between mothers and daughters. During the webinar, we discuss effective communication techniques, model relationship-building tactics, and most importantly have fun while learning to strengthen the bond between mothers and daughters.

Security through bonding and attachment is the first foundational developmental task upon which all other human development builds on. As social beings, humans need nurturing touch throughout the lifespan, for healthy psychological, social, emotional development and healthy interpersonal relationships.  Parenting children with histories of trauma can be tricky for many reasons, especially when it comes to navigat...

Private Offering of Newly Updated, Trauma-Informed Course/Curriculum. The first pilot course has occurred and the book is being finalized. Get on the waitlist for the next live online class offering

Private Offering of Newly Updated, Trauma-Informed Course/Curriculum. Attend to share your ideas, stories, suggestions, and questions. Each session will be recorded, but only the participants will have access to them, for a limited time. Then the new book and curriculum will be finalized.

Your 1 Brain controls the data your brain takes in and how it’s interpreted. Your 2 minds, the Conscious and Subconscious, influence your perceptions, beliefs, decisions, and behavior about 95-97% of the time. So, learn what is happening outside your awareness so you can consciously use your inner powers to change old habits, deprogram trigger buttons, and achieve your goals with less self-sabotage.

A comprehensive overview of an evidence-based, trauma-informed curriculum offering a reliable formula for finding effective individualized responses to parenting challenges. Discover effective, practical language and action tools for fostering internal motivation, boosting self-esteem, getting cooperation, building independence, improving communication, and understanding and effectively responding to misbehavior.

Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE and special guest expert David Zidar, LISW-S will discuss the most common symptoms of ADD/ADHD, and offer practical skills parents can teach their children to help them improve problem areas such as: What can parents do to help improve their ADD child's difficulty in paying attention? How can parents help their ADHD child mange their hyperactivity? How can parents teach their ADD/AD...

Attachment is the first and most important developmental stage, because it’s the foundation for all other development. So when children have disorganized attachment, are unable to bond, or experience trauma at a young age (especially physical or emotional neglect), they can develop a condition called Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Children with RAD often seem to be withdrawn, lack empathy, and experience and...

Chances are, your children are “digital natives,” born in the information age with potentially-constant access to the internet, social media and screens. Do you wonder how you and your children can use technology in healthy ways? Get practical strategies and communication tips from Amy Alamar, EdD in this one-hour webinar. See free preview or listen to audio below. Or get video course by clicking this button:

Want to learn The Parents Toolshop®'s proprietary Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success from A to Z, Introductory, to Basic and  Advanced? Now you can get all three T.I.P.S. (Tools for Improving Parenting Success) courses and attend them in any order.  This package bundles all 3 and includes a verified completion certificate for each course for which you complete the "graduate" steps. (After your purchase, y...

On-Line T.I.P.S. is THE Most Comprehensive, Advanced Parents Toolshop® Course There Is — It’s Like Getting a Degree in Parenting! With every module, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your child. You learn new skills that prevent and resolve the most common challenges all parents face. You'll even get little tweaks for the skills you already have, to get even better results. Best of all, you'll get ...

You’ve heard about The Parent’s Toolshop® and its unique Universal Blueprint®, but don't have the time to learn it in detail. In what little spare time you do have, you like reading parenting books and listening to self-help audiobooks. So you’d like to take a Parent’s Toolshop® class at your own pace and on your own time.  If this sounds like you, then you’ll be glad to know Parent’s Toolshop® offers a Basic T.I....

"The Secrets of Preventing Misbehavior:  Practical Tools for Effective Responses" The Parents Toolshop® Introductory T.I.P.S. Course is for YOU if You: Love your children, but are so stressed and overwhelmed with the everyday demands of parenting that you may not always be your best.Want to raise your children to be respectable, independent, successful adults, but aren't sure if you’re on “the right track.”Want to...

  Whether you are just starting your online learning or have been online for a while, this webinar will help support you and your student(s) to achieve a positive and successful online experience.  Attend this free webinar to get practical tips for... Creating the perfect study environment.Time Management, so you make the most of every day without burnout.Opening effective lines of communication between you, your ...

What you say and how you say it are important in parenting. Miscommunications can easily occur through unintentional hidden, conflicting, or unclear messages. It’s common to assume you are understanding others clearly and they are understanding you, but actually aren’t, which then causes problems. So this webinar offers simple tips for positive, healthy communication. Making small changes to what you say and how ...

We will introduce our peer mentors program as well as Ohio Reach resources for foster parents who have older kids. After the short presentation, there will be a live panel made up of former foster youth talking about ways a foster parent can make a young person feel more welcome and set up for success when they enter their home. 

Are you ready for one of THOSE conversations?  Suicidal thoughts, cutting, self-harm in other forms. No matter how long you have parented, these conversations can take the wind out of your sails. Plan in advance so you have the internal and external resources to be a support to your teen without being swamped yourself. 

REGISTER to ATTEND THIS WEBINAR LIVE on Weds. April 21st from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. If the goal of effective discipline is to help children and youth to become self-directing, then parents and caregivers have to teach kids to THINK!  This seminar presents the participants with strategies, through multiple examples and skills practice, which will prove to be immediately useful for discip...

RAIN Technique is a powerful and easy-to-practice tool that helps you process challenging emotions and build a close relationship with your inner self. You can teach and role model it to your children and help them to improve their strengths for processing/managing difficult emotions.

It's not too early to talk about race with your children. As early as 3-yrs old, children develop beliefs about skin color. It’s critical for parents to talk to their children about race and racism and give them the tools to disrupt racism when it occurs. Join Randi and Adam Blair as they discuss a practical parenting tool to combat race prejudice in your home.

In today’s digital age, parents are raising children in uncharted territory — where technology reshapes independence and development. This course explores how screen time and modern parenting trends impact resilience, maturity, and growth. Gain evidence-based insights, tools, and strategies to raise confident, well-adjusted children despite digital challenges.

Today's fast-paced world creates chronic stress that can negatively impact our relationships with our children and their development. This webinar introduces polyvagal theory and simple strategies to retrain your brain, regulate your nervous system, and stay calm during tough moments. You'll build your resilience and model healthy co-regulation for your children, being your best self, even in challenging situations.

For 60+ years, Parenting Education has been available, but stigma keeps parents away. Instead, they turn to social media, where unqualified “experts” spread misinformation. Even some “evidence-based” programs prove ineffective or harmful. So how can parents access credible, research-backed advice? Join us to find out.

 Children in foster care have experienced trauma. As caregivers, you may have experienced personal traumas. You may experience secondary trauma from hearing of the traumas the youth have experienced or from dealing with their resulting behaviors and reactions.  Attend this webinar to learn more about: “What is secondary trauma?” How do you know if you might have experienced it? What you can choose to do to prevent...

This webinar explains recent research on how smartphones affect youth mental and emotional well-being, and how proactive caregivers can support healthy habits by following the AAP's "5 C's." Participants will share their insights, ideas, and practical tools, in addition to those from Parents Toolshop®, to help children maintain balance in this high-stress world with lots of digital distractions and addictions.

In this webinar, you will discover... What to do if your foster or adoptive child went online seeking their birth parents and family members --- or how to prevent this. Why children with a trauma history have an increased risk of future violations, such as cyber-bullying and child trafficking, and how to keep them safe.  Featuring an interview with Tina Fiegel, MS, Ed.

What do you do when your child is too young to talk about their stress, anxiety and fears? How can you teach them self-regulation and self-calming skills if they are too young to understand or too stressed to learn? In this webinar, Tijana Coso, BA, MA, Certified EFT trainer will teach you how to use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), a super-simple tapping system, with children and how to teach it to children.

Parents, don’t miss this opportunity to gain insight in how to start the conversation or deepen the communication around puberty and reproductive health with your pre-teen and teenage daughters! Learn more about the teenFEMM* program for 12-17-year-old girls which provides the necessary information to understand what’s normal and healthy at every stage of your daughter’s life.

Did you know there are only 4 types of tantrums? Discover why these 4 types of tantrums start and how to respond to each type, without reacting. We also discuss destructive tantrums, teen/adult tantrums, aggressive toddlers, and timeouts, plus several bonuses.

Given the stress of everyday life these days, parents and children are more stressed than ever. It’s important for children to know how to handle stress and express their anger in constructive ways. So how do you teach these skills to children?  Although valued at over $97 + bonuses, these teachings are so important for all parents to know, we are practically giving it away for only...

Given the stress of everyday life these days, parents and children are more stressed than ever. It’s important for children to know how to handle stress and express their anger in constructive ways. So how do you teach these skills to children? Join Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE for a segment of her top-rated, always-booked-with-a-waiting-list workshop on how to “Keep Your Cool and Help Kids Calm Down.” She’ll s...

Diversity is everywhere; it's the color of Life. So how do you handle those sometimes embarrassing questions your children ask about someone who's different? In this presentation, based on the "Teaching Diversity Appreciation" section of The Parents Toolshop® book, you'll discover:Ten tips for teaching children to celebrate and appreciate diversity, not just "tolerate" it.How to prevent or respond to children's q...

Becoming a foster parent can be the most rewarding and challenging experience as we navigate new behaviors from each child in our care.  Developing a trauma-informed lens is vital on this journey to meet the needs of children from hard places.  Participants will take a look at relational trauma, how it affects the brain, and review resources that dive deeper into trauma-informed care.  

 Whenever a child enters the child welfare system, an effort is made to find kinship family members who can care for the child and prevent that child from entering the foster care system. While children in kinship care will also have a trauma history like other children in care, kinship caregivers' need the same training around trauma-informed care, and also training and support around the special and unique issue...

Do you have a child who is emotionally distressed and “triggered” frequently from past sexual trauma? This unique presentation, taught by a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, will give you some “insider’s” insight into the world of the trauma survivor and offer three simple suggestions for how you can support healing and recovery in the children you love. 

It is possible to teach tidiness and organization to your children — even young children. Attend this webinar to get practical tips for how to: Teach children to clean up after themselves, make beds, clean rooms, organize or let go of old toys, without them delaying or quitting or you having to bribe, threaten, or pay an allowance (but if you do, learn this 3-part plan).

Children who have been abused or neglected aren't the only ones with trauma. Since the body experiences chronic stress as a trauma, children experiencing prolonged periods of illness, isolation, and bullying or events like natural disasters, death, and other “adverse childhood experiences” may show signs of trauma. So, EVERY parent needs to be trauma-informed, to recognize signs and respond in trauma-informed ways.

We will explore the various types of adoption and what it means to adopt transracially (also interchangeably referred to as transcultural adoption). We will discuss considerations such as: transracial adoption preparationunderstanding beliefs and attiudes around race, ethnicity, and culture in our societyextended family, community, social circle, and lifestyle nurturing a healthy identity for your child and famil...

Featuring Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute, LLC Trauma is an emotional response to an intense activation of the child’s nervous system, this can happen from an event, more commonly from environments of Toxic Stress and repeated adversity. The harm can be physical or emotional, real or perceived.  Unfortunately the largest contributor to trauma, toxic stress and adversity is...

See a parenting “style show” that reveals which parenting practices will get the long-term results you want. Discover the secrets for building healthy parenting habits and working together as a team with your parenting partners, including caseworkers and birth parents. 

 Drug addiction is sending more children into the foster care system. In Ohio, about half of all children who enter foster care have drug addicted parents. Being in foster care is a predictive factor for addiction. In this session we will look at the link between trauma and addiction, and discuss therapeutic responses that promote resilience rather than re-traumatization. 

Watch a stimulating workshop that provides several thought-provoking discussions that provide insights and reveals surprising facts about: What really qualifies as a lie? When do children understand they are lying? Why do children lie? How can parents prevent lying? How parents might accidentally model lying without even realizing it, andA 3-step formula for responding to lies in ways that encourage permanent tru...