From Self-Critical to Self-Confident: Raising "I Can" Kids
Parents, are you searching for ways to empower your children with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude? Do your children fear making mistakes, criticize themselves, or struggle with motivation when facing a challenge? This state of discouragement often leads to nagging, conflict, and feeling helpless by everyone in the family.
Turn the Discouragement cycle into Encouragement. Discover simple tools to infuse the parent-child relationship with the ‘I Can Quotient,’ a useful measure of a child's ability to thrive in life developed by psychotherapists Betty Lou Bettner and Amy Lew.
Learn strategies to increase your child’s:
- sense of feeling connected, capable, competent, and courageous
- ability to flex their ‘can-do’ muscles
- self-confidence to face challenges more independently
Registration includes access to the live webinar, video/audio recordings, a PDF of the slide deck and links to resources.
Your Instructor
Bridget G. Edwards
Bridget G. Edwards came to PEP in February 2020 in search of a nurturing program to enhance her skills as a parent educator and mentor. She has been a social services case manager since 2000 and a parent educator since 2016. Bridget incorporates the values of connection, mutual respect, dignity, inclusion and cooperation when she engages with parents, family, and friends.
Bridget is also a contributing writer for the monthly PEP column Ages and Stages in Washington Parent Magazine. She is mother of four adults and lives in the DMV area with her husband.
Lisa DiSciullo
Lisa is a lifelong educator and trainer in many capacities:from computer, communication, and relationship skills in Fortune 500 companies, to respectful ways for parents to teach and support their children.
She discovered PEP when one of her 3 children was struggling in school. After getting guidance from a counselor on how to help her child, she asked “That’s great, now what can you do for ME, because I feel like a failure as a parent, all I ever do is yell at my kids, if we continue this way not only will I fail, but my children will fail too!”
PEP provided skills, support, and practice for Lisa's family. She is passionate about helping parents guide their children to be capable, positive, independent and courageous.
"My husband and I really enjoyed the webinar. we have some practical strategies that we can start to implement right away."
--Participant, PEP Online
"It was a hard topic and I felt like she explained the issues well in a non-judgmental way. Thank you!"
--Participant, PEP Online