Parent's Toolshop® Resources

The Parents Toolshop® offers a variety of multi-media resources for parents and family-service professionals: audios, videos, print books, e-books, most as digital downloads.   

Each one offers practical solutions and some even teach our secret sauce system, "The Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success." This reliable, proven-effective parenting system empowers you to prevent common parenting challenges and respond helpfully to any challenges you might face, in ways that are personalized to your and your child's specific needs and circumstances. 

Discover the benefits of this unique parenting system for yourself, by learning the Universal Blueprint®, from basic-to-advanced levels, or see it applied to specific common parenting challenges with Done4U Solutions.

Parents Toolshop® Blog Articles

Get insight, inspiration and practical tips about the most common parenting challenges and issues for which parents seek solutions.

We have categories organized by Tools (skill sets all parents need to learn and master) and Challenges, organized by ages. 

We have over 100 articles and are adding more all the time!

DONE 4U PARENTING SOLUTIONS

Facing a particular parenting challenge? These audios & videos offer step-by-step instructions and practical tools to prevent or respond helpfully to about the most common parenting challenges. Get only the tools and teachings you need to plan a customized solution specific to your needs.

A PROVEN PARENTING PLAN 2 PERSONALIZE 2 YOUR NEEDS

Once you see the great results you get from the Done4U Solutions, which are created using Parents Toolshop®'s unique problem-solving system, you can become more empowered, by learning the plan yourself. Then you can personalize the plan to your needs and find a helpful response to any parenting challenge you face! These resources DO teach the Universal Blueprint® System

We are Here to Support You!

While you might read or listen to a resource on your own, many Parents Toolshop® resources offer optional live support, so you can get your questions answered and apply what you are learning to your family. So pay attention to invitations you receive after ordering your resource or as you are using it. My team of Certified Parents Toolshop® Leaders and I are standing by, ready to cheer you on and coach you through the process of mastering these new ways of thinking, speaking and acting more effectively with your children.

So browse the resources BELOW that are for ALL parents and pay attention to any optional add-ons you can get, to get additional support.

Resources for ALL Parents

  • Free

"Classic" EFT demonstration by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE

EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique is a super-simple tapping technique you can use to reduce and eliminate stress, trauma trigger buttons, stress-related health conditions, phobias, and almost anything else that has an emotional cause behind it. Jody is trained in the original, classic EFT technique developed by Gary Craig. She teaches it in several of her courses and has courses showing other EFT variations deve...

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"I Can’t Believe I Just Said/Did That!" Breaking the Cycle: How Our Upbringing Shapes Stress, Anger, and Parenting Reactions

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.

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"No Hard Feelings, Really" Parents Tool Talk® featuring the Parent Forum team

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.

  • $9.97

5 Building Blocks for Parenting Young Adults to Success (Parents Tool Talk webinar)

Adulting is behaving like an adult, especially accomplishing mundane but necessary tasks. Young adults may not realize that successfully navigating the adulting phase develops personal growth skills that are the building blocks on which successful adulting and parenting journeys are built. This webinar equips parents to balance support and fostering independence with their young adult children during this phase.

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7 Keys to Parenting Success (FREE e-book download)

UNLOCK the Secrets to Parenting Success:7 Keys to Building Healthy Family Relationships --- from the Foundation Up! Parenting is quite possibly the most challenging job on earth; it is certainly the most important. It’s also one of the only jobs that involves being totally responsible for taking care of another human being with no required training, preparation or experience!  That’s why, when problems arise, you...

  • $4.97

Action Guide: Conscious Parents Toolshop®

This Action Guide is a supplement to The Parents Toolshop® Jump Start Guide book. It offers bonus information and resources specifically related to conscious parenting, for each Toolset. (Valued at $47)

  • $4.97

Action Guide: Universal Parents Toolshop®

This digital download is a supplement to the universal Parents Toolshop® Jump Start Guide book.  After you read each chapter, come here for action steps to apply what you are learning to your family, research citations, and links to bonus resources. Get tips for responding to the Top Ten most common parenting challenges from an international-known and respected parenting expert, including: homework hassles, sibli...

  • $9.97

Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Parent's Guide

Learn important information about adolescent substance abuse including how drugs work in the teen brain, warning signs every parent should know, assessments needed for a comprehensive diagnosis, how eating disorders and self-injury can accompany a child’s substance use, what drugs today’s teens are using and how to protect your child from using substances like alcohol and drugs. 

  • $497 or 3 monthly payments of $167

All-Inclusive TIPS: just add support choice

Want the biggest discounts on the most complete training package The Parents Toolshop® offer? This package offers verified completion certificates for almost 40 training hours:Free preview webinar = 1 hourIntro TIPS = 2 hoursBasic TIPS = 5 hoursAdvanced TIPS = 30 hoursPlus, you get personalized feedback and a pre-post skill assessment report. The only thing you will want to decide is whether you want group or pri...

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Anger Log (from Parents Toolshop® book)

Want to reprogram an anger or stress trigger button? Use this worksheet that walks you through the basic process used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Use this for yourself or submit a Reprint Request to copy/share in educational settings.

  • $9.97

Birds & Bees Talks – When, What & How! (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar)

The birds and the bees can be tough to talk about but with a little information, some careful thought and planning it’s possible to have comfortable and effective conversations that help your kids make good decisions.

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Bridging Today's Generation Gap: How to Have Supportive Parent/Grandparent Relationships (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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.

  • $9.97

Calm Down and Communicate with Dr. Brian Grossman (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

In real life, there are moments when your kids drive you CRAZY! Attend this webinar to learn how to reduce conflict, discuss feelings, and create habits that assist you and your kids with parenting. By using happy, fun methods that build on your strengths, you can be your BEST self and use your strengths to parent your kids and create healthy communication.

  • Free

Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention is Possible

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!

  • $197

Coaching for TIPS trainees and non-graduates with Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS, CFLC-Expert

Schedule a private coaching session for TIPS trainees and non-graduates with Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS, CFLC-Expert

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Conscious Parents Toolshop On-line: Intro course

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.

  • $297 or 3 monthly payments of $97

Conscious Parents Toolshop® ADVANCED BUNDLE

 Get this bundle of resources specifically collected and curated for Conscious Parents The ADVANCED Conscious Parents Toolshop® training bundle includes every training and resource we have produced (and will in the future)! In addition to the BASIC Conscious Parents Toolshop® training & resource bundle, you will get group coaching while you are taking the course and as a graduate afterwards.  For LIFETIME res...

  • $179 or 2 monthly payments of $98

Conscious Parents Toolshop® BASIC Bundle

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...

  • $9.97

Creating Family Success with Executive Functioning (Parents Tool Talk® webinar)

This workshop will inform participants on creating family success for all families in identifying and understanding executive functioning and how to support the members of your family to be successful. Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully which is impactful in everyday life.

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Creating Personalized Anger/Stress Plans for Children & Adults (TPT book excerpt)

How can you help your child calm down when you are angry yourself? What if what works for you doesn't work for your child? Wouldn't it be great to figure out before you are angry where you each can go and what you each can do to calm down.

  • $9.97

Creating the Family Experience

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. 

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De-escalating Freak Outs and Meltdowns: What To Do When Your Child Loses Self-Control...

Sometimes, your parenting goal is to just get your child to stop screaming and throwing things. Attend this webinar to better understand causes and types of out-of-control behaviors and ways to maintain your own self-control. You will also get a formula for responding appropriately and effectively to extreme behaviors.

  • $9.97

Dealing with Difficult People (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family or co-workers. Most families and office teams are dysfunctional somehow & almost everyone knows someone they dread seeing. So, why not learn some skills for preventing them from getting under your skin and responding helpfully, when needed. Then you can be around them without draining your energy and leaving angry and hurt. This multi-media resourc...

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Discuss the CDC's Study on Teen Screen Time

  • Nov 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST

This discussion about the CDC's 10/30/2024 study on teen screen time offers research-based explanations and practical parenting tips. Every parent and family service professional is invited to attend live or watch the replay to learn and share resources.

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Discussion: Surgeon General's Warning about "Dangerous Levels of Parental Stress"

  • Oct 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT

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

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Dispelling Old Wives Tales, Myths, and Misinformation: How to Find, Screen & Weed Credible Advice

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.

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Distracted Parenting (Parents Tool Talk Webinar Series)

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.

  • $9.97

Done4U Solutions: A/V resource package - Parents Guide To Anti-Bullying

Bullying seems to be a problem for children and parents almost everywhere. Whether your child is the target, the bully or the bystander, you need to know what to say and do to be a part of the solution. Get this audio/video presentation and bonus report to discover what to do if your child is the bully, target, bystander, or is cyberbullied.

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Done4U Solutions: Webinars - Holiday Issues

Here's a collection of our holiday-themed webinar and resources all in one place for you to download for free. Be sure to check out the many informative articles listed in the resource docs. Topics include: Taming the Holiday Gimmees, Using the Santa Threat, Shopping with Children, Embarrassing Gift Receiving Faux Pas, and more!

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E-book: The Parents Toolshop® (Get the ©2020 25th Anniversary Edition on Amazon!)

Ever wish children came with instructions?Now they do! Here is every tool you need to learn the special language and actions of effective parenting—from toddlers to teens and beyond. This definitive guide was researched and developed over 15 years and proven successful in more than seven years of field tests. It’s teeming with the best of the best—more than 100 highly practical parenting skills in a step–by–step,...

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E.N.R.I.C.H. Your Relationship With Your Child (Parents Tool Talk® series)

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.

  • $4.97

EFT Emotional Freedom Technique (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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.

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EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

  • Dec 15, 2020 at 12:00 PM EST

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. This webi...

  • $47

Ebook: Choose Your Own Parenting Solution Hintbook - Interactive E-Book

Plan an Individualized Effective Response to Any Parenting Challenge, with Any Child — in Minutes! All you need to know is what type of problem you are facing and what you want to accomplish. The Hintbook will take you to the best tools for that situation! Need a different response for different situations or children? Just answer the questions based on that situation, at that moment, with that child. Then click...

  • $9.97

Ebook: ESP - Effective Single Parenting

for Single, Divorced and Widowed Parents 30-page e-book by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE Get E.S.P. (Effective Single Parenting) and You Will Learn...

  • $9.97

Effects of Trauma on Children's Development & Behavior

Chronic or toxic stress effects children’s brains and bodies similarly to trauma. There are 3 types of traumas that fall on a spectrum from nothing apparent happening to what everyone recognizes as abuse. Your child could be showing signs of trauma you aren't recognizing! Attend this webinar to learn more about trauma, how it affects children, and the symptoms to look for in children at different developmental stages

  • $9.97

Emotional Regulation: What Society Didn’t Teach You

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...

  • $49.99

Emotional Regulation: What You Need to Know Now

Take a deeper dive into the impact of unresolved stress and emotions on our body in this 3-hour training.    Learn the science and research of the mind-body connection as it relates to emotional management and physical and mental health outcomes. Explore the disconnect, despite the research and science, between our teachings of mental health and emotional intelli...

  • $9.97

Engaging Difficult to Engage Family Members

Is there one member of your family who appears to be slow to buy into being a family member? Perhaps they avoid affection or refuse to participate fully in family activities. In this hour long virtual live session we will explore several fun activities designed to bind family members to one another, discuss their member’s history and heritage, develop a family vision and motto, and become active in accepting and ...

  • $5

Family Councils: Parents Tool Talk® webinar series

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.

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Fantastic Freebies from Parents Toolshop®

Our Certified Parents Toolshop® Trainers are always creating new value-packed resources to share. Here are almost 50 resources covering timeless topics such as: chores, allowances, diversity, drama, siblings, gratefulness, homework, competition and sports, driving, adult children, picky eaters, separation anxiety, study skills, tantrums, terrible twos, answers to parents' questions, and essential parenting skills.

  • $9.97

Fostering Cooperative Behavior in Children, with Rita Rizzo (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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.

  • $9.97

Fostering Resilience in You and Your Children (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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...

  • $9.97

Fostering Your Child's Emotional Development (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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 ...

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From Failure to Feedback: How Choosing Yourself First Helps Parents, Foster Parents, and Caregivers Own Their Voice and Lead with Confidence (Without Guilt)

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.

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Getting Back Talk? Let's Talk (Parents Tool Talk® DONE4U Solutions Webinar)

Getting Back Talk? Let’s Talk! Want to know how to prevent children from using back talk, rudeness, and “smart-alecky” remarks, and how you can respond assertively, effectively and without defensiveness. We’ll also discuss why children today often act and talk these ways, how to recognize whether “sass” is intentional or not, how to respond, and some tips for teaching anger management skills to children.

  • $9.97

Getting Back Talk? Let's Talk: Why Kids Talk Back and What to Do About it. (DONE4U Solutions Audio)

You see, back-talk is learned behavior, so the question is, where do children learn to talk like this? Do they know how to say what they want in an assertive, respectful way? And if they did, would they be heard?  While parents aren’t the only place children learn back talk, they are the biggest influence in modeling communication skills and stopping back talk, even if they didn’t start it. So here’s a resource p...

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Growing Into Your Parenting Role (Parents Tool Talk® webinar series)

  • Aug 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT

Bill Shackelford discusses his book "Growing Into Your Parenting Role," which shows you how to lay a strong foundation for a parenting relationship, getting your parenting partners on the same page, and tips and tools for raising successful kids (and grandkids) while making parenting life memorable.

  • $9.97

Halting Bedtime Hassles (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

If bedtime battles are wearing you down and draining your patience, you’re not alone! Getting children to bed, happily and cooperatively, is one of the most common challenges parents face. Do your children dig in their heels and refuse to go to bed (or stay there)? Claim that monsters are hiding in their closets? Take the prize for lame excuses? Cling? Feel lonely and insecure? Get revved up but can't wind down?...

  • $9.97

Halting Bedtime Hassles (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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...

  • $9.97

Halting Homework Hassles (Parents Tool Talk® Series)

Are you a homework helper who feels like you are doing more to get homework done than your child? Does your child not do homework, but you aren’t sure why? Or you know why, and it’s intentional, yet “nothing works” that you’ve tried? This webinar show you now to use the Parents Toolshop® Universal Blueprint® GPS (Guide to Parenting Success) System to plan a customized solution for your child in your situation.

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Heartful Communication: Making Your Point without Pointing a Finger or Laying on Guilt

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.

  • $9.97

Holiday Parenting Issues (Done4U Solutions Album)

Holidays can be a great time for nurturing family bonds; however, these times can also pose special challenges for parents, like the gimmees, shopping nightmares, gift-receiving faux pas, and deciding if or how you want to celebrate Santa, with honesty or lies.

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How To Detoxify Your Family Holiday Traditions (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

The holiday season often means visiting family. You’d like that to be a good thing, but If you have to see toxic family members, it can be excruciating. Plan ahead with this webinar, where you can shift how you think and feel about your family and plan ahead for potential triggers. Then your holidays can have more joy and less drama.

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How to Gain Me Time with Less Guilt

  • Dec 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST

Mothers who take care of themselves are at their best. Yet many moms care for their families without leaving time to take care of themselves. This webinar shows you how to incorporate me time into your busy schedules, without guilt, and while taking care of your many responsibilities.

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Independence Toolset (from the Prevention Toolbox in the Universal Blueprint GPS system)

"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.

  • $5

Is the Family Bed for You? Done4U Solutions Webinar Series

How many parents have you heard say they get no sleep the first few years after having a baby? It’s almost a given! The parents you won’t hear saying that are those that have a family bed. But family beds do have potential dangers, so is this a practice you should even consider? If you do choose to have a family bed, how can you do it safely and eventually get children sleeping on their own?

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It's a Great Time to be a Dad: How to Support the New Generation of Fathers

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.

  • $9.97

Just Because “It Works!” Doesn’t Mean You Should Do It! (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

Many parenting tips are quick fixes that “work” but have negative long-term consequences. Some “evidence-based” parenting programs even teach tactics not supported by research! This course offers criteria for evaluating parenting advice, tells you which parenting practices “work” will backfire long-term, and gives a simple “prevention formula” that teaches positive behavior and internal motivation.

  • $47

Lunch & Learn Audio ALBUM: Seris of All 10 Toolsets

Listen to this album of audio recordings of a full-length live Parents Toolshop® class, including the proprietary Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success Formula and its 10 key skill sets. Download the mp3 files and listen to these anytime on any compatible device.

  • $9.97

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 01: Parenting Styles

Discover The 6 Reasons Even Effective Parenting Tools Might Not Work, So You Can Head-Off Problems Before They Start And Trouble-Shoot Your Progress. Identify What Your Parenting Style Is And Whether It Is The Best Style For Reaching Your Parenting Goals. Improve Teamwork With Your Parenting Partners, So You Are Both On The Same Page And Children Can’t Manipulate You Against Each Other.

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 02: Universal Blueprint

Discover the Universal Parenting Plan You Can Customize for Any Situation or Child. The 3 Questions You Must Ask in Every Parenting Challenge, to reveal the core issue that’s causing the problem. The 5 Steps for Responding Effectively To Any Parenting Problem, so you resolve the core issue and break any misbehavior cycles the first time you respond! No more repeating yourself, nagging, or lecturing!

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 03: Self-Esteem

Boost Your Children’s Self-Esteem, Without Creating “Praise Junkies” Or Big-Headed Egos. Increase Children’s Confidence And Resistance To Peer Pressure. Prevent And Diffuse Sibling Rivalry And Competition. Then They Will Get Along Better And You Can Stop Being A Referee In Their Squabbles And Fights.

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 04: Cooperation

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.

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 05: Independence

Teach Children Life Skills, Good Behaviors & Values. Foster Independence & Responsibility In Children, So You Can Free Yourself From Being A Short-Order Cook And Maid. You’ll Be Amazed How Happy Your Children Are To Do These Chores Themselves, Usually Without Even Being Asked. Use Allowances Effectively — Without Paying Kids To Do Daily Chores!

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 07: Anger and Stress

Understand The Real Cause Of Stress And Anger, How To Prevent Or Eliminate It, And Channel The Energy In Constructive Ways. Reduce The Daily Stress In Each Family Member’s Life, By Making Individualized Anger & Stress Management Plans For You And Your Children. Slice Sass And Back-Talk From Your Child’s Vocabulary, By Clearly And Concisely Communicating Your Concerns, Without Lectures That Cause “Parent Deafness.”

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 08: PU/PO

Know The 4 Questions To Ask, To Discover Why Your Child Is Misbehaving. Avoid Common Gut Reactions That Escalate Problems Or Accidentally Give A Payoff. Understand The 9 Reasons Children Misbehave and the Best Response for Each. In a matter of seconds, you’ll know why your child is behaving that way and exactly what to say and do to break the cycle.

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 09: Discipline

Avoid The Pitfalls Of Punishment, Which Cause Rebellion, Resentment, Revenge, And Sneaking Around, Becoming Tough Enough To Take Whatever Punishment You Can Dish Out. Know The “4 R’s” Of Using Discipline Effectively, So Children “Learn Their Lessons” Without Shame, Humiliation, Or Bad Feelings And Want To Behave Better! Discover The Best Four-Star Discipline Tools That Develop Self-Disciplined Children.

  • $5

Lunch & Learn Audio Album - 10: Brainstorming

Learn how to have effective Family Councils, to Make Consensus Family Decisions, And Address And Resolve Problems Before They Ever Start. Know How To Use The Universal Blueprint® Success Formula With Adults, to Improve Every Relationship In Your Life. Feel Confident And Competent, Knowing That While You Might Not Avoid Every Parenting Challenge, You Have a Plan and Tools to Find Solutions for Your Family.

  • $9.97

Maintenance Toolbox: Family Councils & the UB for Adults (Course #10 of 10 in the Advanced Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Bundle) - 1 hour

Effective family councils help each person feel like an important, contributing member of the family team. They enrich family relationships and help make decisions and resolve conflicts in ways that meet everyone’s needs. This workshop teaches formats from which to choose, tools to model and use, roles to involve every family member, and tips for preventing common pitfalls and conducting effective councils.

  • $9.97

Minimizing The Impact of Cyber-Bullying (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

This webinar defines bullying and cyberbullying, offers strategies for dealing with cyberbullying, how to recognize and respond to cyber-bullying, cyber-bullying and the law, social networks and protecting yourself online. For all professionals, educators, students, parents, and guardians who want to recognize bullying and cyberbullying, protect children from it and be prepared for dealing with emergency situations.

  • $9.97

Morning Delays (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

Does getting your children ready and out the door in the morning feel like running through molasses? Do you have to try waking your children multiple times before they finally get out of bed? Do they delay and drag along while getting dressed and ready? Are they often running so late they have to skip breakfast or are late for the bus? And then do they realize they’ve forgotten their lunch or homework and you hav...

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Morning Delays: Free video course

How would you like to have a system for getting kids up and out in the morning hassle-free? This 1-hour, 8-part interview by Dayton Public Schools of Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS, author of The Parent's Toolshop® includes: Intro Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success System  Getting Kids Up Keep Kids Moving Kids Not Ready On Time   Child Forgets Things  Missing Bus or Carpool  Truancy  When Nothing Works...

  • $9.97

Mothers & Teen Daughter Communication (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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.

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NeXt GenZ Parents Toolshop Book

In a sea of questionable resources, this one-stop resource gives you accurate, current, research-based, trauma-informed parenting information that's proven effective with diverse families. Prevent common challenges and find customized responses that fit each situaton and child. Heal your trauma and re-parent yourself while becoming the best parent you can be to your children.

  • $97

NeXt GenerationZ Parents Toolshop® Course (live online archive)

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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.

  • Free

One Brain, Two Minds: How to Achieve Your Goals while Removing Roadblocks and Subconscious Self-sabotage (PTT webinar series)

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.

  • $30

Overview of The Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® (Course #1 of 10 in Advanced FAPT Bundle) - 5 hours

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.

  • $17

Parenting Children With ADHD - featuring David Zidar, LISW-S

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...

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Parenting Digital Natives: Using Technology Safely (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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:

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Parenting In Sports

This training goes into the relationship and role of parents in sports. More specifically, the training will highlight the benefits, responsibilities, impacts, and attitudes of parents when their children play sports. Also, the way that parents act at sporting events and the consequences of their actions. Strategies, tips and suggestions for parents to have a healthy and positive involvement.

  • Free

Parenting Styles Bonus Report (Course)

Did you take the Parenting Styles Quiz on our blog?  Want to know what your results mean? Are you familiar with all FIVE parenting styles, or just 3 or 4? Want to know how parenting styles research has evolved, with the latest research (2015-2017) validating what The Parent's Toolshop® has been teaching for 25+ years, even coining the term that is now the standardized term used in the field? You can get those an...

  • $9.97

Parenting Through Grief: Done4U Solutions Webinar Series

Have you lost a loved one and are now caring for the children who were left behind? Are you struggling to parent children who are grieving, while still overwhelmed with your own grief? If so, experience this presentation full of encouragement, support and practical advice from a nationally-recognized parenting expert. This multimedia resource package includes:Audio and Video recordings of the 1-hour course. A 25-...

  • $297 or 3 monthly payments of $99

Parents Toolshop® ALL-4 Course Bundle: Free Preview & Intro, Basic, and Advanced TIPS

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...

  • $197 or 3 monthly payments of $79

Parents Toolshop® Advanced TIPS Online

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 ...

  • $97

Parents Toolshop® Basic TIPS

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....

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Parents Toolshop® Book Gift - Lifetime Updates

After you purchase the original  Parents Toolshop® book (any © date or reprint), come here to get lifetime updates! Wherever you see the gift icon (🎁) in the text (2015 printing or later), you will know there a more recent updates.

  • $47

Parents Toolshop® Introductory TIPS Online

"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...

  • $9.97

Parents Toolshop® Jump Start Guide e-book

Are You Feeling Overwhelmed, Judged, Unsure Of Who’s Parenting Strategy To Follow, And Not Sure What Really Works? Raising a child to be a mature, responsible, well-adjusted adult is THE most important job you will EVER have; and probably the most challenging. Don’t you and your child deserve the chance to have the closest relationship with as few hassles as possible? It can happen — and doesn’t have to take a li...

  • $9.97

Parents' Success Guide for Online Learning

  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 ...

  • $9.97

Picky Eaters & Food Issues (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

Which of these children sounds most like yours? "I don't like broccoli! No, I don't want to try it! I just want hot dogs." Or "Mmmm! I love baby trees! I They're yummy, yummy in my tummy! Can I have more?" If you have found your way to this page, then the first child probably sounds most like yours. Picky eaters and other food issues crop up for most parents at some time or another, especially when children are y...

  • Free

Positive Communication (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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 ...

  • $7.95

Poster: 11 x 17 Universal Blueprint® (download)

 Do you need a reminder of all the skills you learned from The Parents Toolshop®? Get a copy of this 11″ x 17″ poster that summarizes all the key skills from the book. Hang it on your fridge, or wherever works best, to give you an instant reminder of the Universal Blueprint’s® problem-solving techniques to quickly get you through a crisis on a moment’s notice. 

  • $997 or 3 monthly payments of $347

Private Coaching for Parents Toolshop® TIPS non-Graduates

Private coaching offers you a way to share your unique situations and brainstorm ways to find personalized responses to the challenges you are facing with your children in your family.  The most effective, efficient, and fastest way to do personalized problem solving with parents is by using the Universal Blueprint® problem-solving, decision-making process.  The most cost-effective way for you to learn the Univer...

  • $5

Problem Solving as an Effective Discipline (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

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...

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Protecting Our Kids from Gun Violence (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

Guns are the leading cause of death for American children. Concerned parents, both gun owners and non-gun owners, can work together to change this. Jill Chisholm, a degreed parent educator, will give a short Be SMART presentation and lead a non-partisan discussion on how to reduce gun deaths and injuries for children.

  • $9.97

RAIN technique for Processing Emotions with Yuji (Parents Tool Talk®)

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.

  • Free

Raising Anti-Racist Children (Parents Tool Talk® webinar)

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.

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Raising Independent Children in an Age of Digital Dependence

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.

  • $29.97 or 3 monthly payments of $9.99

Reclaim Your Life, Rebuild Your Family

You've made it through a hard time and have accomplished a lot already. You don't want to lose the progress you have made and want to keep healing and growing. Whether you want to heal your own trauma, re-parent yourself, strengthen your recovery, rebuild your relationships with family members and build family self-esteem, this course will support you in setting those goals and mapping a path to stability.

  • $45

Recreational Marijuana: Facts & Concerns All Parents & Professionals Need to Know

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More people are regularly using recreational marijuana, legally, even though it's far more potent and dangerous than anything in the past. Professionals need the latest information to monitor client responses and beliefs about this important issue in health care for all ages.

  • Free

Reduce your Family’s Stress by Developing a Resilient Nervous System

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.

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Revolutionizing Family Life Education for the Next Generation of Parents

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.

  • $9.97

Sexual Behavior in Children & Teens — When to Really Worry

When you see sexual behavior in your children and teens, how do you know if it means the child has been sexually abused? Can you easily recognize common and uncommon behaviors? Do you feel confident talking to your children about problematic sexual behavior? This webinar will reveal key sexual behaviors that could be red flags and cause for concern, with scripts you can use to talk with your children.

  • $47

Simple Tapping for Stress Relief with Tijana Coso, BA, MA, Certified EFT

In this highly experiential virtual course you'll learn the evidence-based Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also called Tapping. Mental Health professionals use EFT with their clients to address stress, anxiety and trauma relief. Now you can get in on this brain/based technique that is easy to learn, works automatically and quickly.  Expect to interact more in the second half of the course where we will practic...

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Social Media & Youth Mental Health: Understanding the Connection and the “5 C’s for Media Use”

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.

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Social Media’s Effects on Parents and Children’s Mental Health

Parents and children are having far more mental health issues than in the past. What role might social media be playing in that? This webinar explains the biological process of how social media and emotional addictions can affect mental health. Learn how can families reap the benefits and reduce the risks.

  • $5

Solving Sibling Strife (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

Every parent hopes their children will be best buds with their siblings. Although sibling conflicts are inevitable, sibling rivalry is not. There are simply strategies you can use on a daily basis to prevent sibling conflicts, and a three-step process you can use when sibling strife arises to empower children how to resolve their own conflicts respectfully and independently.

  • $97

Strategy Session for Parents Toolshop® Advanced T.I.P.S. course

Together, hand-in-hand, I’ll help you find a customized, helpful response to your most pressing discipline challenges and discuss ways I can support you in making your parenting easier and more enjoyable in the future. Just click on the order link below.  Once you have completed the transaction, you will be taken to a scheduling page.  Please select “1:1 Personal Coaching session” with a Certified Parent’s Toolsho...

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Supporting Your Daughter Through Puberty

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.

  • $9.97

Taming Temper Tantrums (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

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.

  • $9.97

Taming Temper Tantrums (webinar & video exercise)

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.

  • $9.97

Teaching Children Anger & Stress Management - 1 hour training course with certificate

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...

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Teaching Children Mindfulness and Anger/Stress Management Skills - 1 hour webinar replay

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...

  • $5

Teaching Children Tidiness (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

Though play is a greater priority for children than cleaning, they can learn to be tidy. In this teleseminar, you'll get practical tips for teaching children how to clean up after themselves, including their rooms; how to prevent or respond to cleaning distractions and delays; and how to help your children let go of old toys. We’ll also discuss chores, including pay for, and consequences for not, doing them.

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Teaching Children about Money (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

If you would like to instill responsibility and values in your children about money management, including saving, budgeting and using allowances, listen to an hour-long interview by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS with with Alexis Neely of the Family Wealth Institute. It’s FREE!

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Teaching Diversity Appreciation

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...

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The 2020 25th Anniversary Softcover Book is now available on Amazon with Prime shipping worldwide! See link below to buy and see the BONUSES AVAILABLE

Ever wish children came with instructions?Now they do! Here is every tool you need to learn the special language and actions of effective parenting—from toddlers to teens and beyond. This definitive guide was researched and developed over 15 years and proven successful in more than seven years of field tests. It’s teeming with the best of the best—more than 100 highly practical parenting skills in a step–by–step,...

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The 5 Best Discipline Tools: Without using Timeouts, Spankings, Grounding or Restrictions, which DON’T WORK! (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar)

Attend this webinar to learn how to hold children accountable in ways that build your relationship and teach them better behavior. You can replace ineffective tactics like threats, spanking, timeouts, and restrictions with these 5 tools which get far better results without resentment, rebellion, or sneakiness.

  • $9.97

The Controversy about Corporal Punishment (Done4U Solutions Album)

Is corporal punishment an effective discipline tool? This teleseminar features Dr. Kerby Alvy and a discusion among parents and parenting professionals on topics that include: controversial legislation, what research says about the effectiveness of corporal punishment, and what discipline tools you want to have at your disposal.

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The Dangers of Behavior Management Programs: What Today's Researchers are Arguing About

Millions of parents use "behavior management" tactics with children and the #1 treatment for autistic children is ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis). These tactics are considered "evidence-based" but 60 years of research show they are ineffective and counter-productive, and today’s researchers argue that it's harmful! Attend this webinar for details and better tools to reach your positive parenting goals.

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The Nature of Privilege (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

This discussion focuses on unconscious privilege, assumptions, dominant status, internalized oppression, fragility, bias, and discrimination. Better understand how privilege impacts children. Learn to recognize when privilege is disempowering others and how to shift the dynamic toward equitable outcomes.

  • $17.99

The Parents Toolshop® e-book (Get the ©2020 25th Anniversary Edition on Amazon!)

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Ever wish children came with instructions? Now they do! Here is every tool you need to learn the special language and actions of effective parenting—from toddlers to teens and beyond. This definitive guide was researched and developed over 15 years and proven successful in more than seven years of field tests. It’s teeming with the best of the best—more than 100 highly practical parenting skills in a step–by–step,...

  • $9.97

The Terrific Twos (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

From toddler tantrums to hazardous exploring, parenting pre-verbal children can be challenging and frustrating for both of you. You want to encourage creativity and exploration and keep your little ones safe. You may have good intentions and learned effective parenting and communication skills, but your child doesn’t understand what you are saying yet! Watch FREE below in the course OR get course completion cert...

  • $9.97

The Top Ten Myths About Trauma --- and Truths EVERY Parent Needs to Know

Trauma affects children in ways that many adults, both parents and professionals, don’t recognize as trauma, so they react to them in ways that aren’t working and may be making matters worse. This webinar reveals the Top Ten Truths about Trauma and offers tips EVERY ADULT NEEDS TO KNOW to reverse the effects before the trauma has lifelong consequences.

  • $9.97

Toolbox Tips Audio Series: Problematic Behavior Toolbox

This teleseminar explain why kids "misbehave" and how to respond, by applying the Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success Formula, exclusive to The Parent's Toolshop. You will learn: 3 Questions to Answer, to Discover Why a Child is Misbehaving; How to Avoid Reactions that Escalate Problems or Give Payoffs; The 5 Reasons Children Misbehave and the Best Response for Each; What causes discipline to work better or fail.

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Toolbox Tips: Cooperation Toolset - Audio

This audio gives you the Five Best Tools for getting children to cooperate the first time you ask and preventing and stopping power struggles. You'll also learn why children often do what you just told them not to do -- and how to prevent this. As a bonus, learn which tots will go through a no phase and which teens will rebel -- and how you can beat the odds.

  • $5

Tools for Teaching Tidiness (Parents Tool Talk®) webinar

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).

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Top 10 Mistakes Most Parents *Unintentionally* Make --- and How to Prevent or Fix Them

A free preview of The Parent's Toolshop® proprietary "Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success" System and the Top 10 Reasons to use the system and its tools.

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Transforming Picky Eaters to Healthy Foodies: Done4U Solutions to A Baker’s Dozen Eating Issues

Attend this webinar to learn how to hold children accountable in ways that build your relationship and teach them better behavior. You can replace ineffective tactics like threats, spanking, timeouts, and restrictions with these 5 tools which get far better results without resentment, rebellion, or sneakiness.

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Trauma-Informed Parenting 101: What EVERY Parent of EVERY Child Needs to Know

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.

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Trigger-Free Parenting: How Childhood Programming, Trauma and Toxic Stress Rewire the Body & Create Trigger Buttons

Trigger-Free Parenting: How Childhood Programming, Trauma and Toxic Stress Rewire the Body & Create Trigger Buttons

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Underneath Mommy Guilt: How to Enjoy Guilt-Free Mothering

Listen to this 20-minute interview by Nancy Lucas with Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE on releasing mommy guilt for the Perfect Parent (NOT!) summit.

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What's New with Babies? The latest research ... (2019, 1 hour) (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

Want to know the Latest Research About Babies, including Brains, Bodies, Bonding, Beds & more? There is an overwhelming amount of parenting advice on the internet, on top of all the advice you get from other parents, friends and even from strangers!  Meg Akabas will help you sort out real information from common myths and quick fixes. By sharing the current findings on babies and young children, you can make ...

  • $27

What's the Foundation of Your Parenting? (Course #2 of 10 in the Advanced Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Bundle) - 3 hour

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. 

  • $9.97

Why Kids Lie & How to Encourage Truthfulness (Foster-Adoptive Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

This webinar 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, and “Truth or Consequences,” practical tools for responding to lies in ways that encourage permanent truthfulness.

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Why Kids Lie, How to Teach Truthfulness, and Respond to Lies (Done4U Solutions Audio Album)

Every parent wants their children to be honest and tells them not to lie, but most children will lie at some point. In this teleseminar, we discuss what is a lie (you think you know but it's not black-and-white), why kids lie, developmental stages of truthfulness and lying, how to prevent lying, what parents often do that accidentally encourages or models lying, and a four-step formula for responding to lies.

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Words That Help: Growing Resilience and Connection through Developmental Affirmations

Parenting is a journey of strength, love, and growth. In this interactive webinar, discover how simple, research-based affirmations can support healing, build resilience, and deepen connection for both you and your child. You’ll leave with practical tools and powerful words you can use every day to encourage hope, confidence, and stronger relationships.

  • $47

Your Worst Parenting Nightmares --- SOLVED!! with the Done4U Solutions Teleseminar Album

The Parents Toolshop® Teleseminar Series shows you how to prevent or respond helpfully to The Top Ten Most Common Challenges Parents Face. These are not cookie-cutter suggestions; you learn how to custom-design the most effective response to YOUR child, based on WHY YOUR child is behaving this way. This is because the suggestions apply the proven-effective Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success Formula.

  • $9.97

Youth Curiosity and Firesetting (Parents Tool Talk® webinar series)

Millions of dollars each year are lost and lives are changed forever as a result of youth who have firesetting behaviors. With proper interventions, many of these youths will grow up to be productive citizens. Learn how to spot troubling behaviors as well as a few safety tips to make your home safe and sound.