You can be your child’s Emotion Coach!

Everyone has emotions — especially children. And what children do with their emotions is crucial for optimal child development. So, what can you do when your preschooler or grade-schooler is angry or frustrated? Do your children know how to label and regulate their feelings?

Find out how to be your child’s Emotion Coach at a FREE workshop, “Emotion Coaching,” developed by the Talaris and Gottman institutes.

The workshop is taught by Kerry Beymer, a certified Parenting Counts (Talaris) instructor and Parenting Education and Support manager for Encompass.

This evidence-based program will improve your communication and relationship with your child. In this workshop, you will (1) learn how to tune into your child’s feelings and your own, (2) use emotional moments as opportunities to connect with your child, (3) respect your child’s feelings by taking time to listen carefully, (4) help your child identify and name emotions and, best of all, (5) explore solutions to problems together.

We taught four recent sessions of "Emotion Coaching" in the Issaquah Highlands, and all four filled up instantly. So sign up soon!

Instructor:
Kerry Beymer (pronounced BEE-murr) graduated from Washington State University and has been a parenting educator for more than 15 years. She is Parenting Support and Education manager at Encompass. Kerry has two children, one in college and one in elementary school. She recently was certified as a “Parenting Counts Educator” by the Talaris Institute of Seattle. Kerry uses humor and storytelling in her classes in a non- judgmental setting. “Parenting,” she says, “is the most challenging and most important job there is.”




The details

Evening workshop, 6-8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, Snoqualmie YMCA, 35018 S.E. Ridge St., Snoqualmie

Workshop is FREE. No Childcare available. ($14 for those who wish to receive two STARS credits. Bring STARS ID number.)
Registration is required.

ONLINE REGISTRATION for each of these classes is available! Click here to register.

For more info, contact: Kerry Beymer, Parenting Support and Education manager, 425.888.2777, Ext.229.
To see and print out a flier for the workshop, click here.
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