Parenting Children With Health Issues: Tools, Tips & Tactics for Raising Kids with Food Allergies

With Speaker Lisa C. Greene, BS CCP;

Parent Educator, Author and Mom

This 90 minute workshop will introduce you to Love and Logic concepts as applied to parenting children with health issues. The tagline, "Essential tools, tips, and tactics for being a great parent when every moment matters," sums it up nicely.  Whether a child has life-threatening food allergies or any other life-long medical condition, parenting presents similar challenges.  What will you learn in this workshop?   You'll discover how to:

- Motivate children to make wise choices about food and medication.

- Promote responsibility without nagging, lecturing or bribing.

- Answer your child's tough questions about their special needs.

- Raise children who make wise self-care decisions- even when you're  not around.

- Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps.

- Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments.

- Avoid the dangers of over-protection.

- Prepare your child for the transition to independence.

- Empower your child to be positive, hopeful and independent.

Date: June 5, 2010

Time:  3-5:00 PM – workshop 3-4:30; Q&A 4:30-5 PM

Location:  Community Center at Mercer View, Meeting Room TBA

Address: 8236 Southeast 24th Street, Mercer Island, WA 98040

Link to directions: http://www.mercergov.org/Page.asp?NavID=2014

Need more info? 

Parenting Children: www.parentingchildrenwithhealthissues.com

Washington FEAST:  http://www.wafeast.org

Contact: leader@wafeast.org.