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Mastering Meltdowns: Create a family life with more ease

A workshop for parents of young children (ages 1-6 years)

with Mária Leon and Marianne Perchlik

You can create a home environment that nurtures the young child’s need for connection, competency and contributions, so that you can stop dreading your child’s next tantrum, and create a family life that supports each of you.  

-Connection and relationship is the most viable way to influence your child(ren)-

In this workshop you will:

  • Explore the emotional and social needs of young children

  • Reframe difficult behaviors and understand the needs behind them.

  • Gain skills & strategies to cope with meltdowns. 

  • Prevent & release power struggles 

  • Why young children thrive with kind, firm limits and lots of empathy.

The leaders will present strategies based on the Waldorf approach, Simplicity Parenting, attachment theory and the latest neuroscience, to help you deeply understand and guide your child(ren).

Who: Open to all parents, grandparents, caregivers, educators.

When: March 25, 2023, 9:30am - 12 noon

Where: Child’s Garden in Montpelier (155 Northfield St, Montpelier VT)

Cost: Sliding scale $30-100

Advance registration required: Registration Form

Questions? Please contact orchardvalley@ovws.org


Earlier Event: December 8
Birth Healing
Later Event: May 13
Spring Garden Workshop