Judy speaks and trains using a non-punitive model of building peaceful relationships and joyful family connections. She has been quoted in Parents, Chatelaine, Today's Parent, Canadian Living, ParentsCanada, and Canadian Family magazines and interviewed by CBC, CTV and Global TV. An authorized Trainer of the Parent Effectiveness Training program (P.E.T.), Judy teaches parenting at The University of Calgary, and Alberta Health Services, and is author of the best selling book, Discipline Without Distress: 135 Tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, spanking, punishment or bribery. She lives in Calgary, with her husband and five children.

It takes a village, to cherish a parent, to nurture a child

Why a Parenting Topic? Peaceful family relationships are what we live for.  Yet, parenting is the only job in which there is no training.  Only 23% of Canadian parents scored correctly on basic emotional, cognitive and physical child development tests. Without knowledge of child development ages and stages, problems surface because of inappropriate expectations. Judy provides insight, humour, and tips critical for building satisfying, caring and sustainable relationships in our families. Healthy families are necessary for a functional workplace because problems come to work too.

Judy believes that every family can take workplace skills such as effective listening, assertiveness, problem-solving, time management and leadership and apply them to the home front. As a parent immersed "in the trenches" Judy provides evidence-based, proactive, relevant ideas, information, skills and strategies for building relationships and circumventing relationship problems in today’s culture. Judy will leave your audiences motivated, inspired, validated and renewed.

Why Judy?  As a long time advocate for parenting without punishment (even "punishment-lite" such as consequences and time-outs), Judy will lead your audience through statistics, current research and anecdotes to convince audiences that families thrive when love, respect, empathy, communication and accountability replace punishment and control in their relationships, especially today in an age of technological change, working away from home, and limited family time.

If you want a highly interactive speaker that is not tied to a lectern, your audiences will love Judy. Her presentations are unique, powerful, honest and empathetic. As a Mom of five children, she ignites passion for honoring families within society and her refreshing take on current issues provide leading edge strategies on dealing with common family problems that affect workplace productivity and home atmosphere. With a firm background in Adult Learning Theory, Judy has developed and conducted thousands of educational sessions for parents, caregivers and professionals in the past 16 years on every topic of parenting and families.

Keynotes:

• Plugged-In Parenting: Connecting with the Digital Generation for Health, Safety and Love 
• Long Distance Families That Work: Peaceful parenting and family functioning while one partner works away from home
• Top Ten Workplace Skills Essential to Parenting
• Every Parent is a Working Parent: Judiciously Juggling Juice and Job with Joy and Jubilee
• Discipline without Distress: 10 tools for raising children for the new millennium 

Lunch and Learns:

• Plugged-In Parenting:  Connecting with the Digital Generation for Health, Safety and Love
• Taming the Gaming:  How to Manage Screen Time without Scream Time
• Sibling Rivalry Remedies
• Discipline without Distress: 10 tools for raising children for the new millennium
• 123 Time-out has Lost the Magic:  Effective Alternatives
• Raising a Spirited Child: Understanding the Effect of Temperament
• He Dared Me! Helping Your Child Handle Peer Pressure
• Peaceful Partnering with Differing Parenting Styles
• Love Languages of Parenting
• Taming Temper:  Handling Your Angry Child

• Eggs for Dinner Again? Peaceful parenting for partners holding down the home front while their partner travels

 

Training Programs:

• Long Distance Families That Work: Peaceful parenting for partners who work away from home (1/2 day)
• Eggs for dinner again?  Peaceful parenting for partners holding down the home front while their partner travels (1/2 day)

As the wife of a travelling worker, Judy knows first hand how the family is affected by rotations with one partner travelling for work. She can provide practical solutions for common problems in parenting, relationships and communication for both the parent traveling and the parent at home.

• P.E.T.  Parent Effectiveness Training (For parents of children ages 4 to 20) 1/2 day to two days

If your employees want close relationships, improved communication skills with their children, and more peace in the home, they need P.E.T. Founded on 52 years of positive outcomes research, and developed by twice Nobel Peace prize nominated Dr. Thomas Gordon, the P.E.T. program teaches skills for parents to raise children with healthy self-esteem, respect, excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, self-discipline and enhanced warm relationships with their parents.

• Terrific Toddlers Training Program (For parents of children ages 1-4) 1/2 day to two days

Terrific Toddlers delivers current researched information of developmental stages, communication, parenting styles, self-esteem, play ideas, health, safety and discipline strategies. Learn how to respectfully handle picky eating, toilet training, temper tantrums, bedtime battles, and power struggles.  Developed by Alberta Health Services 2009