Parents & Families
Dr. Kathy thoroughly enjoys teaching parents. Her desire to help them know more than how to give birth, bathe, diaper, and feed their children was one of her main motivations for beginning Celebrate Kids, Inc. She believes parenting is one of the most important things a person can ever do, and it’s one of the most demanding roles, as well. Whether gathered in public schools, community settings, Christian schools, or churches, parents will enjoy these topics. As you’ll discover in the descriptions below, children and teens are invited to attend some of the seminars with their parents. This can increase attendance and be ideal, as everyone in the family learns the same things. The shared vocabulary and built in accountability helps parents and children apply the truth more readily. Everyone will enjoy Dr. Kathy’s interactive and personal teaching style and they’ll benefit from her practical, relevant, and clear instruction.
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Dr. Kathy Koch’s Seminars for Parents & Families
Authentic Answers to Life-Changing Questions
Backpacks, the Forgotten Tool: Encouraging Children to Talk about School
Children of Character: Increasing Children’s Self-discipline (PreK-5th Grade)
Conversational Parenting: Talking with Your Kids about the Important Things of Life
Fabulous Feedback: The Art of Complimenting and Correcting Students
How Am I Smart? A Practical Guide to Multiple Intelligences
Motivation: Building a Deeper Desire for Obedience and Success
No Two Alike: A Learning Styles Overview
Overcoming the Challenges of Change
Stop Yelling, Start Helping: Eliminating Homework Hassles
Strong-Willed? A Focus on Solutions
Where are Today’s Geniuses? 12 Qualities to Encourage in Yourself and Others
The following seminars are appropriate for Christian audiences only:
A Heart Like Mary: Responding to God’s Call
Decisions for Disciples
Eaglelike Excellence: Flying High for God
For the Sake of Others: Living a “One-Another” Lifestyle
Got Hope? Optimistic Living During Challenging Times
Hold His Hand: Walking with Your Father
Inside Out and Right-Side Up: Heaven’s Kids in a Hollywood World
Jesus IS . . . Jesus DOES . . . Recognizing Him in My Everyday
Miracles Matter: You Are Who You Are Supposed To Be
Mordecai: A Model for Mentoring
Net-Dropping: The choice to Become a Disciple
Psalm 23: A Psalm to Live by
Put Off/Put On: Renewing the Mind for Permanent Change
Under the Influence: Followership, a Prerequisite for Leadership
Wired for God: Using Multiple Intelligences to Get Closer to God
Associate Speaker - Dr. Linda Page's Seminars for Parents & Families
Dealing with the D’s (ADD, ODD, and LD)
Understanding Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome: What’s a Home-School Parent to Do?
(Read about Dr. Linda Page)
Associate Speaker - Elizabeth Greene's Seminars for Parents & Families
Discovering Your Child’s Temperament
The Five Love Languages of Children
Heart and Soul
Let’s Make a Memory
Raising Your Spirited Child
(Read about Elizabeth Greene)
Authentic Answers; Optimistic living during challenging times
When the going gets rough, pessimism and discouragement can set in. Hope is essential. Despair doesn’t inspire. Pessimism doesn’t expect. Optimism does. Hope happens when our basic needs of security, identity, belonging, purpose, and competence are met in healthy ways. We’ll be more fulfilled and successful in all of life. Because of our focus and joy, we’ll be less likely to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk activities. There will be fewer behavior, motivation, and academic problems at school, work, and home. Learn the best answers to the core needs’ questions and how to help others believe them: Who do I trust?, Who am I?, Who wants me?, Why am I alive?, and What do I do well?. You’ll have hope for today and for tomorrow! (1-6 hours; Kathy’s approach and exact content will depend on the audience and the event’s goals)
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Backpacks, the Forgotten Tool: Encouraging your child to talk about school
Many of today's busy parents may not go through their children's backbacks with them, check their daily work and tests, and look to see how they can help with homework. But, supporting them is important. Simple questions and homemade games can get everyone talking in optimistic and fresh ways about school, assignments, attitudes, and friends. (1 hour)
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Children of Character: Increasing children’s self-discipline
Kathy will begin by defining discipline, examining goals of discipline, and discussing advantages of children being self-disciplined. We will consider prerequisites and characteristics of discipline that dignifies children; some major causes of children's misbehavior; the use of consequences, rewards, and punishments when dealing with misbehavior; and ways to teach appropriate behavior to especially increase children's self-discipline, self-respect, and respect for others. (3-6 hours)
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Conversational Parenting: Talking with your kids about the important things of life
Simple conversations are one of the best ways for children of all ages to stay connected to their parents and grandparents. Conversations also inspire, motivate, and teach. But, it’s challenging. Busyness, cultural clashes, and misunderstandings can undermine our best intentions. Let’s learn how to ask questions children and teens will willingly answer and how to answer theirs so they’ll talk and keep talking. (1-2 hours)
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Fabulous Feedback: The art of complimenting and correcting children
Compliments and corrections have the power to increase or decrease children’s self-esteem, self-discipline, intrinsic motivation, and learning. Therefore, they’re a very important communication and teaching tool. In addition to other points, the value of specific and focused compliments and corrections vs. general statements such as “good” and “that’s unacceptable” will be emphasized. Differences between corrections and criticisms will be explained and modeled. (1 hour)
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How am I Smart? A practical guide to multiple intelligences
All children, teens, and adults have eight different intelligences that can be awakened, strengthened, focused, and trained (e.g., word smart, nature smart, self smart). These intelligences will be defined and explained so teachers and small group leaders can determine which ones are strengths for their students and how to use them when teaching and leading discussions. Specific ideas about how students think with each intelligence and how each is expressed will be shared (e.g., word-smart children think with words and learn well by reading, writing, speaking and listening; logic-smart children think with questions and learn well when using cause/effect and comparison/contrast thinking). Children, teens, and adults will self-identify their strengths and weaknesses, learn ways to maximize learning while minimizing distractions, be empowered to be smart with their smarts, and discover they have been made uniquely smart. (1-6 hours)
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Motivation: Change the T.A.R.G.E.T. to increase the S.C.O.R.E.
All children, teens, and adults are motivated, but they might not be motivated to learn and succeed. Have you met some who are motivated to fail, remain apathetic, or get into trouble? Unfortunately, they're often present. In this seminar, practical, realistic, and helpful ideas to get and keep children, teens, and adults motivated to learn and succeed will be explained and demonstrated. You will be encouraged! (When enough time is allowed, ideas from the “Fabulous Feedback” seminar are included.) (1-2 hours)
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No Two Alike: Teaching a group without losing an individual
Have you noticed learning differences among your children? What one enjoys, another might find boring. What helps one understand something might confuse another. Some grasp details well, while others do better with main ideas. (Have you ever told children to do four things, but they only do one?) Some remember best by seeing, others by talking, and still others by moving and doing. Some concentrate well in formal, well lit, and quiet settings and others concentrate well in the middle of what looks like chaos to us. Understanding learning styles can help us individualize our communication, discipline, and teaching. You’ll get a practical overview of three different learning styles. The models include environmental preferences (how students concentrate), modalities (how students remember), and cognitive style (how students understand). The ideas will help you determine and communicate to strengths, discipline with these strengths in mind, and teach to the strengths. More success and less stress is the outcome. (1-2 hours)
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Overcoming the Challenges of Change: Practical steps for permanent change
Change is not only possible, it’s essential if our children are to mature into excellence. But, change isn’t easy. What can help? We’ll look at the role of “power thinking,” the “application arrow,” and the “stop/learn” principle. We’ll also learn to put off qualities of our old self and what to put on instead. The steps will be practical and the examples will guide you as you apply the ideas to yourself and individual children who need to change beliefs or behaviors. (1-3 hours)
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Stop Yelling, Start Helping: Eliminating homework hassles
Families with school-age children have more stress and arguments related to homework than any other topic, except finances. You may not be surprised! Most parents expect their children to have homework, remind them to do it, and tell them to “study hard.” But have we made sure they know HOW to study? Are we ready to help them be successful? Strategies parents can use to improve motivation, comprehension, retention, and application will be modeled. Ideas will be practical and easy to implement. (1-3 hours)
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Strong-Willed: A focus on solutions
Are you raising or teaching strong-willed children who always want their way? In this practical and encouraging session, we’ll examine why strong-willed children behave the way they do. Then several strategies that can immediately improve your relationships and lead to peace will be clearly explained and demonstrated. More importantly, perhaps, strong-willed children will be more able to thrive when they learn first-time obedience through these strategies. (1-2 hours)
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Where are Today’s Geniuses: 12 qualities to encourage in yourself and others
Are you one of those asking where today’s Edisons and Einsteins are? Have you been curious about what geniuses have in common and how we might recognize the geniuses in our classes? Tom Armstrong’s research resulted in an encouraging list of twelve basic qualities of genius (e.g., curiosity, playfulness, imagination). We’ll examine the list (you’ll probably be surprised), define the qualities, discuss what may shut down these qualities, and consider how we can encourage these qualities in ourselves and our students. (1 hour)
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The following seminars are appropriate for Christian audiences only:
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A Heart Like Mary: Responding to God’s call
Jesus Christ’s mother, Mary, obediently and humbly responded to the angel’s news that she would give birth to the long-awaited Savior. How do we respond to what God asks us to do? Let’s learn from Mary’s life and choose to develop a heart like hers. (1 hour)
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Decisions for Disciples (Includes Net-Dropping and Hold His Hand)
Jesus Christ calls to each of us, “Come, follow Me.” But, some of us think more about following God’s commands than following God. That’s a mistake. Jesus says, “Follow Me.” But, how? In rich detail Kathy will explain three decisions that must be made in order to fully follow Christ. This relevant and important message will meet needs wherever you are on your spiritual journey. You will be encouraged and challenged to further spiritual maturity. (3 hours)
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Eaglelike Excellence: Overcoming Mediocrity
Setting and maintaining high standards can be difficult as it’s easy to become satisfied with mediocrity. From the study of eagles, teachers will be reminded that they need eaglelike energy, strength, and vision in order to achieve excellence. We’ll discover who have been “eagles” for us and how we can be “eagles” for others – caring with eaglelike energy, strength, and vision. (1 hour)
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For the Sake of Others: Living a "one-another" lifestyle
Relating to family members, coworkers, friends, and acquaintances can be challenging. Have you wished for an operations manual for friendship? The Bible is it! The many “one-another” passages from the New Testament offer us specific and practical instruction on how to best relate to others. Let’s learn the list of 34 and discover what it really means to honor, submit, greet, bear with, … and forgive one another. You’ll be refreshed with this hopeful look at relationships. (1-2 hours)
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Got Hope? Optimistic living during challenging times
When the going gets rough, pessimism and discouragement can set in. Hope is essential. Despair doesn’t inspire. Pessimism doesn’t expect. Optimism does. Hope happens when our basic needs of security, identity, belonging, purpose, and competence are met in healthy ways. We’ll be more fulfilled and successful in all of life. Because of our focus and joy, we’ll be less likely to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk activities. There will be fewer behavior, motivation, and academic problems at school, work, and home. Learn the best answers to the core needs’ questions and how to help others believe them: Who do I trust?, Who am I?, Who wants me?, Why am I alive?, and What do I do well?. You’ll have hope for today and for tomorrow! (1-6 hours; Kathy’s approach and exact content will depend on the audience and the event’s goals)
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Hold His Hand: Walking with your Father
God created us to have a relationship with Him. We don’t have to go through life on our own. Rather, we can respond to God’s offer and hold His hand as we walk through our valley experiences and celebrate on the mountaintops. How do we keep Him that close? Why would we want to? What difference can it make? Whether you’re new to the family of God or a longtime member, you’ll be refreshed. Those who haven’t yet made a commitment to Christ may learn something new so they can say “Yes” to Christ! (1 hour)
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Inside Out and Right Side Up: Heaven's kids in a Hollywood world
Shows like Extreme Makeover and The Bachelor; magazine issues like People’s “50 Most Beautiful People;” and endless news reports about obesity and dieting can cause people to judge themselves and everyone else by their outward appearances. There is so much more to us! In this message, Kathy will encourage us to examine our internals – e.g., our heart, emotions, beliefs, thoughts – and whether our priorities are “right-side up.” (1 hour)
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Jesus IS . . . Jesus DOES . . . Recognizing Him in my everyday
When we know Jesus well, we have a better idea of what to expect from Him. Expectations help us find Him and praise Him day by day. In turn, when we recognize Jesus has done something for us, we can learn something about Him. Jesus is actively involved in our lives because of WHO He is and because of WHAT He does. Praise Him! (1 hour)
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Miracles Matter: You are who you are supposed to be
Every child is a unique miracle who matters. Children who understand their uniqueness believe in themselves and are more willing to strive to develop their talents. They’re able to keep believing even in the midst of challenging circumstances. The illustrations shared bring this meaningful and upbeat message to life! (1 hour)
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Mordecai: A model for mentoring
Because of Mordecai’s mentoring, obedience, and courage and Queen Esther’s courageous and obedient actions, the Jewish people were saved. Seeing their God-given opportunity, Mordecai and Esther seized it! Their lives made a difference. Today’s precious children need adults to come alongside and instruct and guide them much like Mordecai did for Esther. Let’s examine Mordecai’s methods so we can use them effectively to transform children we know and, through them, the world! (1-2 hours)
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Net-Dropping: The choice to become a disciple
Jesus Christ says to each person, “Come, follow Me.” But, some of us think more about following God’s commands than following God. That’s a mistake. Jesus says, “Follow Me.” But, how? In rich detail Kathy will explain a key decision that must be made in order to fully follow Christ. This relevant and important message will meet needs wherever you are on your spiritual journey. You will be encouraged and challenged to further spiritual maturity. (1 hour)
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Psalm 23: A Psalm to live by
Like others, you might think you know Psalm 23. But, do you really? Perhaps you’ve memorized it, but do you understand all the rich messages that are relevant for today’s quick-paced times? The Shepherd makes us, leads us, restores us . . . the verbs are so vivid and comforting. And, have you paid attention to the places? The sheep don’t just spend time in a valley! You’ll enjoy and greatly benefit from Dr. Kathy’s dynamic, practical, and accurate phrase-by-phrase teaching of this Psalm to live by. (1 hour)
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Put Off/Put On: Renewing the mind for permanent change
Change is not only possible, it’s essential if our children are to mature into excellence. But, change isn’t easy. What can help? We’ll look at the role of “power thinking,” the “application arrow,” and the “stop/learn” principle. We’ll also learn to put off qualities of our old self and what to put on instead. The steps will be practical and the examples will guide you as you apply the ideas to yourself and individual children who need to change beliefs or behaviors. (1-3 hours)
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Under the Influence: Followership, a prerequisite for leadership
Although it's easier to find books and classes on leadership, studying "followership" may be more important. We become like those we follow so we should be strategic in deciding who to listen to and who to be influenced by. We must be the best people we can be! What would you benefit from learning? Who has God given you who can help you learn this? You'll learn a very practical, revealing, and enjoyable method of regularly asking and answering these key questions. Kathy will explain why she listens to the voices she listens to and people will be invited to share, as well. Following equips us to lead. (1-2 hours)
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Wired for God: Using multiple intelligences to get closer to God
A companion session to “How am I Smart?” or other teaching about evangelism or discipleship, “Wired for God” will equip leaders, teachers, and parents to introduce adults, teens, and children to God through the multiple intelligences. As a result, people who already know God may know Him more completely and connect with Him more personally. Those who don’t yet know Christ, may discover truths that motivate them to humbly trust Christ alone for their salvation. Nothing is better! This unique presentation is very eye-opening! (1 hour)
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Associate Speaker - Dr. Linda Page's Seminars for Parents & Families
Dr. Linda Page - Dealing with the D’s (ADD, ODD, and LD)
You perhaps have all kinds of D’s in your family – including children/teenagers labeled ADD, ODD, and LD. Do you want some new realistic ideas for positively meeting their needs? Who doesn’t? Linda will present specific and practical strategies to increase the likelihood these children/teenagers will be successful. You will also come to understand how the world looks through an ADD, LD brain. [public school, Christian,1-1½ hours]
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Dr. Linda Page - Understanding Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome: What’s a Home-School Parent to Do?
Does one of your children have Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome? What do these two terms really mean and what do you need to know as you teach? This workshop will enable you to approach children with Autism or Asperger’s with confidence and understanding. Strategies and accommodations will be offered as well as encouraging words for addressing children with these special needs. [public school, Christian, 1-2 hours]
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Associate Speaker - Elizabeth Greene's Seminars for Parents & Families
Elizabeth Greene - Discovering Your Child’s Temperament
How can each member of our family be so different from one another? Why do we connect with some and clash with others? Come learn about the 4 basic temperaments that people have and gather some tips that will enable you to celebrate and even enjoy the differences. [public school, Christian, 1 hour]
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Elizabeth Greene - The Five Love Languages of Children
An effective way to speak with internationals is to speak 2 or 3 languages. An effective way to communicate love to your children is to learn and understand their “language” of love. Come learn about the various love languages and gain tips for determining which ones your children understand. You will gain tools that will help you “speak” their language of love. [public school, Christian, 1 hour]
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Elizabeth Greene - Heart and Soul
God invites us to love him with all of our heart and soul, strength and mind. How can we know God and share his love with our kids? Many of us as parents want our children to grow up knowing God but find it difficult to integrate him into our everyday lives. Come learn some practical and creative ways to make passing on your faith in God a natural and fun part of your everyday lives. [Christian, 1 hour]
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Elizabeth Greene - Let’s Make a Memory
Family traditions give each member of the family a sense of belonging. Traditions give our kids a sense of security and create great memories for years to come. Discover the 4 typical areas of family life that lend themselves to family traditions and gather a myriad of ideas for implementing your own family traditions. [public school, Christian, 1 hour]
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Elizabeth Greene - Raising Your Spirited Child
Some children are a joy to raise. They come when they are called and they do what they are told. They make us feel like effective parents. Other children enter the world with spirit and a clear opinion of how they want their world to be run. They resist parental direction and enter willingly into a clash of the wills. Come learn new insights into the temperament of spirited kids and gain some skills for parenting them effectively. [public school, Christian, 1 hour]
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