Parents Tool Talk® Webinars

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1. Sign up for the course below. (Set a password if your first time.)

2. Inside the course, click the link to register on Zoom for the live call. Zoom will send you the join link.

3. Attend the live webinar or watch the recording in the course later; both offer certificates.

THIS Month

"Fostering Healthy Boundaries and Body Awareness”

Teaching children about personal boundaries is a powerful way to support both their safety and their overall development. This live webinar focuses on how adults can intentionally build skills such as body awareness, autonomy, empathy, and consent—skills that are essential not only for healthy relationships, but also for effective CSA prevention.

Presented by returning guest speaker Lindsey Burhardt, Author and Director of Prevention Initiatives at Families Flourish ND, this session reframes everyday developmental skills as critical protective factors. Participants will explore how open, age-appropriate conversations and consistent boundary-respecting practices help children feel confident expressing their needs, preferences, and limits.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Explain how foundational skills, such as autonomy, empathy, and consent, lay the groundwork for child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention, rather than being viewed as merely part of typical development.
- Identify and apply strategies to support body awareness in children, in ways that are age‑appropriate and empowering.
- Name effective prevention strategies that adults can use to reduce CSA risk, along with practical ways to empower children.
- Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026 12 noon EASTERN (See your time zone.)
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Parents Tool Talk® Webinars

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From Failure to Feedback: How Choosing Yourself First Helps You Tame Your Inner Crticic, Own Your 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.

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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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"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.

Free

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.

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.

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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.

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!

Free

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

Free

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.

Free

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 Top Ten Myths About Trauma --- and Truths EVERY Parent & Professional 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

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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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

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.

Free

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.

$9.97

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.

$9.97

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

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

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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.

Free

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

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

$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.

$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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

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.

$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

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.

Free

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.

Free

"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.

$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).

Free

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

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.

$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.

$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.

$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 ...

$9.97

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...

$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

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.

$9.97

Who Ruffles Your Feathers? Maximizing Brain Power for Relationship Building and Strength

Do you ever wonder if your spouse or one of your co-workers is from another planet? How irritated do you get when that client shows up 30 minutes early for an appointment one more time? Do you get frustrated that a task you find so difficult a coworker or family member finds so easy? The knowledge we have about the brain, and its natural tendency towards having a ...

$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...

$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.

Free

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...

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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...

Free

Fostering Resilience in You and Your Children - free webinar replay (Parents Tool Talk® Webinar Series)

Nov 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM EST

$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...

$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

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 ...

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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 ...

$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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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: