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Take the Struggle Out of Parenting

Listen to an interview with Naomi Aldort introducing her philosophy:

Topics include; When your child hits the baby, Behavior, Crying, Naomi’s personal path, Baby care, Good behavior without punishment or control, Naomi’s children’s stories, Securing that they won’t fall for peer pressure and drugs as teens, The trouble with praise and children who please their parents, Music lessons or not, Developing independence, Raising Powerful and Authentic children, The magic of POWER GAMES in healing your child’s emotions and restoring peace.

Available in MP3 download. Price 11.00

Raising Responsible and Cooperative Children Without Using Control

Listen as Sandi Schwartz of Leading Edge Parenting interviews Naomi Aldort about “Raising Responsible & Cooperative Children Without Using Control” in this 52-minute discussion.

Available in MP3 download. Price 11.00

Raising Children Without Timeout, Threats, or Punishment

This recording is a magazine interview covering the issue of the harm of punishment and how to raise a child who behaves well of her own free will.

Themes covered: How punishment and timeout backfire and cause aggression, Resolving problems peacefully, Preventing behavioral issues, The cause of aggression in children, The harm of punishment, threats, and timeout (no matter how gently done.), Advice for daycare and kindergarten teachers, The emotional harm of compliance, What the child needs in order to behave her best, and Solutions through connection.

Available in MP3 download. Price 11.00

Validation Without Drama, Developing Intelligence

This teleclass focuses on two themes: How to validate your child’s feelings without teaching emotional drama and developing your child’s intelligence from baby through teens. October 16, 2011 Teleclass.

Available in MP3 download. Price 22.00

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How Much Should I Play With My Baby, Toddler, or Young Child?

Listen to this 40-minute Newsweek Japan interview with Naomi Aldort.

Naomi focuses on the following themes: How much should I focus, stimulate, and play with my baby/toddler and what is too much?

Available in MP3 download. Price 11.00

Unsupportive and Opposing Relatives

How do I deal with my relatives who oppose co-sleeping, respectful parenting, breastfeeding, unschooling, and my other progressive parenting choices?

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Media Exposure and Child’s Autonomy in Homeschooling

Balancing media exposure and the child’s autonomy in homeschooling. This question is answered in this 42-minute discussion.

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Conscious Parenting Conference Lecture 1: Raising Children, Raising Ourselves

Why would a child tantrum, hit, spill, or not listen? Instead of trying to stop or fix the child, learn to recognize the valid reason for the behavior, so you can remove the cause. Then you will live with a child who behaves well, not because she fears you, but because she wants to, of her own free will. The talk Includes questions and answers and working with parents’ specific issues, demonstrating how to transform tough situations from struggle to ease, peace, and deep connection. How to become loving when you feel irritated, tired, or angry. Finding the cause of your child’s behavior, and removing it. How to relinquish guilt about mistakes we make. Discover your innate parenting wisdom. Learn to question your convictions to enable a deep connection.

1. Introduction – We don’t put children to bed
2. Question: When you have to work late at night
3. Question: Only opportunity for alone time with the spouse is when the child is asleep
4. Question: When a child doesn’t know that he/she is hungry
5. Question: Is it okay to read to a child to help them go to sleep? And general sleeping issues.
6. Question: When children move around a lot during the night.
7. Question: Children having a second wind; “overtired.”
8. Comment: Children, diet, and sleep, followed by general comments about diet
9. Question: When a child’s sleep pattern is out of sync with the parents
10. Question: When the family is disgusted by the way you do things (featuring a mock conversation)
11. Question about the Steiner schools

Available in MP3 download. Price 16.50

Conscious Parenting Lecture 2: The Price of Praise

In this 2-hour session, Naomi Aldort debunks the benefits of praise, reveals its harmful effects, and finds other tools for giving feedback, emotional support, and unconditional trust and appreciation. Learn how to nurture the child’s endeavors without controlling her direction. How praise destroys self-esteem, motivation, self-trust, parent-child relationship, and confidence. How to encourage without undermining the child’s self-direction. Expressing appreciation unconditionally. What is insecurity and how to build self-confidence instead? Achievement and learning without praise.

1. Introduction
2. Why praise doesn’t get us what we want
3. Question: If an older child wants to try drinking or smoking
4. Why praise doesn’t get us what we want (cont.)
5. Question: The relationship between sports and praise
6. Summing up the harm of praise
7. What to do instead of praise
8. Question: Interacting with a toilet-training child
9. Question: How to respond to a child who’s very excited about what they did
10. Question: What about when we are genuinely excited?
11. Example from participant – What happens when you praise
12. Comment from participant – The business of praise is very modern
13. Question: When teachers praise our children
14. Question: Does praising adults set a bad example for children?
15. Question: When a child asks “do you like it?”
16. Points on praise
17. Question: Is it praise to tell children that they were “helpful”?
18. Question: How to interact with a child who’s drawing something
19. Making sure children feel valued
20. Question: How to deal with an older child hitting a younger child
21. Question: What impact does praise from others have on our children?
22. Question: Changing parenting methods with your children
23. Question: When children want feedback
24. Comment from participant – How to best coach children
25. Question: When a child says “I can’t play like my mother” about piano
26. Question: When a child asks for help

Available in MP3 download. Price 22.00

Conscious Parenting Lecture 3: The Case Against Teaching

In a world that is trying to turn your child into everybody else through teaching and indoctrination, in this 2-hour lecture Naomi turns the common fixated beliefs upside down so we can discover how children learn. We will explore how to open doors of knowledge and skill for a child without undermining her natural direction and her innovative methods of discovery. Learning to read without teaching. Inventing math when self-directed. How to nurture musical talent without undermining the child’s natural gifts. Cultivating the child’s natural strive for excellence. Freedom, not license.

1. Introduction – The problem of teaching
2. Learning happens best self-directed
3. Striving for excellence
4. Question: How to find good teachers
5. Question: Distinguishing over-teaching from guidance
6. Question: Teaching to read at very young ages
7. Question: Correcting speech?
8. Question: When a child is frustrated with striving for excellence
9. Unschooling vs. Freedom
10. Question: How exactly to respect a child’s freedom
11. Question: How much media to allow children
12. Question: When a child appears to thrive on media
13. Question: Eating healthy
14. Question: When children want too much
15. Question: Husband got an iPad
16. Question: How long to not allow sugar?
17. Question: Recommendations for healthy goodies
18. Question: How to enter a competition without ego
19. Question: What to do with a child eating snot
20. Question: When a stranger gives your child sugar
21. Question: Creating excellence in children in areas unfamiliar to you
22. Comments of support for restricting sugar
23. Question: When a child asks why he felt what he felt

Available in MP3 download. Price 22.00

Conscious Parenting Lecture 4: The Zen of Bedtime and Other Daily Delights

On their own, babies, toddlers, and children know to fall asleep (eat, learn…) Often, our bedtime procedures create resistance and even sleep difficulties. In this 1-hour session, Aldort unveils the causes of such struggles and presents new possibilities for joyful bedtime, mealtime, outing, etc. Finding daily peaceful solutions by questioning the obvious. The couple’s romantic time without the children. Full-time co-sleeping – why and how. Power games instead of power struggles.

1. Introduction – We don’t put children to bed
2. Question: When you have to work late at night
3. Question: Only opportunity for alone time with a spouse is when a child is asleep
4. Question: When a child doesn’t know that he/she is hungry
5. Question: Is it okay to read to a child to help them go to sleep? And general sleeping issues.
6. Question: When children move around a lot during the night.
7. Question: Children having a second wind; “overtired.”
8. Comment: Children, diet, and sleep, followed by general comments about diet
9. Question: When a child’s sleep pattern is out of sync with the parents
10. Question: When the family is disgusted by the way you do things (featuring a mock conversation)
11. Question about the Steiner schools

Available in MP3 download. Price 22.00

Conscious Parenting Lecture 5: The Social Needs of Children Are Not What You Think

The mythology surrounding children’s so-called social needs has sent many a parent into a frenzy of playgroups and enrolling their child in social activities – often with more frustration than joy. In addition, many parents worry about a child who is shy, aggressive, dominating, submissive or aloof. Learn to distinguish a child’s real social needs from school-based imposed social norms, and find out how to support your child’s true nature so she can be authentically herself in relating to others. Topics include: How children learn aggressive behavior. What if you have to work? Solutions for child care. Are peers’ social interactions natural or desirable? How children learn social skills.

Available in MP3 download. Price 22.00

Babies and Toddlers: To Tame or to Trust

Recorded in an intimate home environment with a group of attachment parents, this groundbreaking class covers a wide range of parenting issues, such as sleep, crying, nursing, tantrums, and much more.

Naomi’s crystal-clear insights into seemingly unsolvable situations provide an astonishing and enlightening look into how parents can find peaceful and kind ways to deal with these issues.

Available on CD. Price 33.00

Children Behavior Sessions to Understand Their Emotions

In this keynote, Naomi Aldort responds with amazing clarity to challenging questions from the audience about children’s behaviors; name calling, hitting, boundaries, validation, and much more. It was recorded at the BC, Canada homeschool convention in 2007.

In this keynote, Naomi Aldort responds with amazing clarity to challenging questions from the audience about children’s behaviors; name calling, hitting, setting boundaries, validating children, and much more. It was recorded at the BC, Canada homeschool convention in 2007.

Available on CD. Price 15.40

Raising Competent Children Through Attachment Parenting

Everything you need to know about attachment parenting. Naomi Aldort answers dozens of universal questions, with wisdom and clarity.

Topics include: Crying and tantrums, When your child hurts the baby, Bringing peace to children’s bedtime and sleep, The cause and cure for biting and hitting, How to raise an emotionally healthy child, What to do when a toddler throws a tantrum, Nurturing your child’s strive for independence, The secret to what causes children to listen to you, How to empower a child when things don’t go his way, How to raise a child so s/he won’t fall for peer pressure, The importance of prompt responsiveness to your baby’s crying, How to raise a self-disciplined and well-behaved child, without punishment, scolding, praise or threats.

Available on CD. Set of 4 CD’s. Price 47.30

Home Schooling: Trusting Our Children, Trusting Ourselves

This comprehensive, indispensable 7 CD set contains six keynotes given by Naomi Aldort at the unschooling/homeschooling conference, Rethinking Education in Dallas, Texas. It covers practically all the major parenting and self-directed learning issues in one amazing package.

Please note, this CD set is not the same as the book, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves

Disc 1) Rethinking Education: Debunking common assumptions about child development.
Disc 2, CD 1) Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves Part I: Bring peace and unconditional love into your relationship with your children by understanding your own reaction as different from your child’s needs.
Disc 2, CD 2) Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves Part II.
Disc 3) Debunking Praise: Find out why you really praise and at what price.
Disc 4) Children’s Behavior and Emotions: Includes many questions from audience members, and Aldort’s skillful guidance about understanding children so they can be the best of themselves.
Disc 5) Self-Directed Learning: Why children learn best when they follow their own path, timetable, and direction, and how to support them toward their own fulfillment.
Disc 6) Equality, Respect, and Freedom for Children: From chores to bedtime and dinner; how to live with children in a way that they care and respond, not out of fear, but out of joy and love, of their own free will.

Available on CD. Set of 6. Price 75.90

Naomi Aldort: Discussions With Parents, March 2008

This CD is a recording of a phone parenting class with Naomi Aldort, recorded in March 2008. Several parents ask questions about their own lives and receive eye-opening answers from Naomi.

Track 1: When children bite and hit, Track 2: When do power games end?, Track 3: My child is so demanding, Track 4: Acknowledging your errors to your child, Track 5: Son gets frustrated when interrupted, Track 6: Better than potty training. Available on CD. Price 15.40

Naomi Aldort: Discussions With Parents, January 2008

This CD is a recording of a phone parenting class with Naomi Aldort, recorded in January 2008. Several parents ask questions about their own lives and receive eye-opening answers from Naomi.

Track 1: When a parent wants a break, Track 2: Why to avoid entertaining the children, Track 3: Children brushing their teeth, Track 4: Children name-calling each other, Track 5: Empowered in the face of name-calling, Track 6: Showing love for son while protecting daughter, Track 7: Homeschooling.

Available on CD. Price 15.40

Peaceful Parenting: KGMI Radio Interview With Naomi Aldort

In this in-depth radio phone interview, Aldort reveals how to raise children so they behave well of their own free will and not as a result of coercion or control. She also answers questions about her book, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, and addresses unschooling.

Available on CD. Price 15.40