Parent Lecture Series

Keynotes, Trainings, Workshops, Retreats

for parents... new moms and dads, families, grandparents, and foster parents... nationally and internationally.  

Joyful Rhythms Lecture Series Topics

  • New Moms and Dads
  • Family and Child Wellness
  • Living with Special Needs
  • Sex and Sexuality

Conflict, Love, and Relationship Lecture Series Topics

  • Peace and Conflict
  • Custody, Divorce, and Mediation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Extended, and Blended Families

Parent lecture series are detailed below.

Joyful Rhythms' Topics
New Moms and Dads Series

  1. Getting ready for the new addition: Setting a tone for family
  2. Trusting your Instincts vs Everyone's advice
  3. Relationships: Partners, siblings, and other loved ones
  4. Gracious limit setting
  5. Finding your groove with the baby's schedule: sleep, eating, and fun
  6. Healthy Babies: nursing, bottles, eating solids, doctors' visits...

Family and Child Wellness Series

  1. Limit Setting
  2. Sleep, Eating, and Potty
  3. Homework and School
  4. Temper and Conflict
  5. Siblings and Friends
  6. Humor, Fun, and Joy

Living with Special Needs Series

  1. Autism in the Family
  2. Siblings
  3. Empowerment
  4. Parent Advocacy
  5. School Issues
  6. Loss and Disappointments

Sex and Sexuality Series

  1. Birds and the Bees, Telling the Kids
  2. Sex and Love
  3. Gender and Sexuality
  4. Romance and Sex for Parents
  5. Kids Dating
  6. Teaching Respect

Families in Conflict Topics
Peace and Conflict Series

  1. Three Levels of Anger
  2. Polite Shut Ups
  3. Apologies
  4. When to get help and how
  5. School Conflict
  6. Conflict as an invitation for growth

Custody, Divorce, and Mediation Series

  1. Unmarried Splits, Dissolution of Partnership, Divorce, and Mediation
  2. Custody
  3. Visitation
  4. Grandparents and Contributions
  5. Parents dating
  6. What to tell the kids, What not to tell the kids

Domestic Violence Series

  1. Abuse and Neglect
  2. Safety
  3. Legal steps
  4. What to say and do
  5. Changing the Family Culture
  6. Moving forward

Dealing with Transitional, Extended, Blended Families

  1. Step and Blended Families
  2. Multigenerational Families
  3. Foster Parenting and Raising other Bonus Children
  4. Caregivers for any generation
  5. Adoption
  6. When Adult Kids return home