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Dr. Joanne Baum is an inspirational speaker who motivates her audience with practical, creative, yet easy to use ideas. She leaves people wanting more every time... The author of the 2007 IPPY Gold Medal Parenting Book Award, Got the Baby Where's the Manual?!? will surely delight your audience with her winning combination of humor, passionate speaking style, and compassion for her audience.

Dr Joanne Baum provides individually tailored parenting seminars, workshops, and keynote addresses. Dr. Baum has designed workshops for groups of parents as well as professionals and paraprofessionals working with children in schools, social service agencies, home, private practice, and childcare settings. These seminars can range from birth through adolescence or smaller age groups.

Dr. Baum designs workshops/seminars for professionals and divorcing parents on parenting through the divorce process. Joanne speaks about communication skills, negotiation skills, co-parenting, child development, children's best interests, and appropriate parenting plans for different ages.

Parenting Workshops are Offered in the Following Settings

• Professional Organizations
  • Keynote Address or Conference Speaker
• Community Groups
  • Churches
  • Synagogues
  • Mothers groups
  • Kiwanis
  • Hadassah
• Childcare Settings
• Schools (including PTAs)
• University and Community Colleges

Sample Topics Include:

• How Respectful Parenting Creates a Lifetime of Difference for Your Family
• Dealing with Infants, Babies, Toddlers, Pre-schoolers, all the way up through teens
• Parenting Challenges
• Enjoying Parenting Rather than Enduring It
• Becoming an Awe-some Parent
• Avoiding Power Struggles
• Communicating with Your Children at any Age
• Creating a Life Time of Difference for You and Your Children
• How to Be the Parent You Want To Be
• Helping Your Children Through Transitions
• Change Can Be Fun
• Toddler Tantrums
• Terrific Twos
• Keeping the Couple Alive After the Baby Is Born
• Staying Calm in the Face of...
• Creative Parenting
• Why "No" Isn't Enough
• Old Style Parenting Versus Respectful Parenting
• 5 Mistakes New Parents Make
• 5 Creative Solutions to the Same Old Problems
• When Sleep Deprivation is the Norm

Feedback from Dr. Baum's Parenting Workshops/Seminars*

"Wow, I learned so much in just a few hours!"

"I wish I could take her home with me so I could consult with her every day."

"Her suggestions were so useful. I can't wait to try them out."

"I feel so inspired"

"She was so much fun to listen to; and she was so informative."

"Her ideas and suggestions are so down to earth. They're really kind of simple; I don't know why I never thought of them myself, but it's so different from how I was parented, I guess I never thought like that. I loved the whole thing."

"Her talk was so motivating. I can see myself doing what she suggests."

"She talks in a way that it's easy and fun to learn. It really motivates you to go home and parent differently. I'll be using her ideas at home and at work (in a childcare setting.)"

"I wish my husband was here so we could have shared this together. I can't wait to get him involved and doing this thing differently."

"We've had Dr. Baum speak to our group 3 times in the last six years and she is our favorite speaker. Everyone always wants her back."

"I had no idea you could set limits in such gentle but effective ways. I like these respectful parenting ideas a lot." "I loved everything she said."

"She's so easy to listen to, I could have stayed for hours more."

"I wish I could just have a permanent parenting line to Dr. Baum so I could ask her things all through the day."

"I've heard her speak twice now and I keep referring back to things she has said and they work!"

"She makes so much sense!"

"Dr Baum is such a lively, engaging speaker."

"Dr. Baum is funny and she teaches us such important parenting ideas."

"This is Dr. Baum's second parenting seminar I've been to. I used a lot of her ideas and they work for my children and for me. I feel really good when I parent using her Respectful Parenting ideas."

Feedback from Attorneys:*

"As an attorney, Dr. Baum gave me so many ideas of how to handle my more difficult divorce cases."

"I wish the whole day had been Dr. Baum speaking to us about working with families going through divorce. Her ideas were so concrete and user friendly."

"Excellent"

"Now I understand why I have so much trouble with high conflict divorce cases, but at least now I have some direction and a framework to work within."

"Thanks to Dr. Baum's presentation, I have so many new ideas I can use with my clients."

Feedback from Parents and Couples:*

"When I use Joanne's advice about how to communicate with my husband we have a really nice evening."

"Now I know what to do so a discussion remains a discussion instead of deteriorating into an argument."

"I never realized how many false assumptions I was making about my spouse."

"I left here wanting to remember that my spouse never took a mind reading class and I need to be more explicit if I want us to get along better."

"Dr. Baum talked about "the process" of communication rather than "the product" of communication. She taught us specific communication skills we can use on a daily basis. We're both willing to try since it worked so well in her seminar, we hope it works as well for us at home."

*Taken from anonymous evaluation forms