Individual Consultations
As specialists in all areas of child development and behavior, we have the privilege in coaching and encouraging parents, grandparents and all those caring for children. Allow us to help you navigate through different ages and stages as we tackle it all using positive guidance tools. From potty readiness, sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, sharing, picky eating, tantrums, preteen and teen changes, just to name a few, we can cover what you need and what all children need so that we can raise up the next generation of independent, responsible and happy children. Our time together will provide you with solid strategies that teach and do not shame. We don’t need to see ourselves in “crisis” when seeking help. Sometimes we just need a few tools to get back on the right path.
Consultations take place via Zoom, FaceTime, or phone call. Our one-hour fees range from $189-225 per hour. We want to be sure you have everything you need long after the consult and so each time we meet, your consultation includes a very detailed recap of everything we have spoken about including a “parenting script”.
Women’s Groups
Women’s monthly parlour groups
Each session is 2 hours long, includes additional emails and on-going support. Join Sharyn Timerman as she and members of her Early Years dream team provide early childhood discussions into a small group setting.
Why join a women’s group?
With a limited number of participants, you have the opportunity to share specific daily issues, receive immediate feedback, hear from others and share common concerns.
Suggested topics include:
- How can I motivate and inspire my child while setting rules and guidelines that they will follow?
- Celebrating the strong-willed child
- Understanding and supporting the “Highly Sensitive Child”
- Helping children think for themselves, building social and emotional competence.
- Seeing social media and technology in a positive light, using it to teach. How to enhance daily living.
- Is there such a thing as the explosive child?
- How can I help my kids get along?
- How do I handle tantrums?
- My spouse/partner and I don’t always agree: Parenting in unity.
- Teaching children about community from an early age, parenting during times of stress, getting ready for kindergarten, talking with children about grief and loss, keeping solid parent/child connections.
- Life since Covid and other stressors, navigating through anxieties and fears.
There is an endless list of topics that are relevant to you. We will set the agenda with your group and bring practical tools you can easily use. No matter the age or the stage of your children there is an answer for everything and a chance to embrace the parent you truly want to be. Meeting once monthly for 5 months is a great way to stay connected and be reassured as your child grows.
If you are a parent who is interested in attending a workshop or hosting a workshop in your home, then please feel free to get in touch:
With a passion for inspiring others to live in unity, Sharyn Timerman, and her team are here to serve you and your family.
There are a variety of workshops, programs and services to families and caregivers close to your community and surrounding areas. The workshops can be personalized to meet individual needs.
As we share our expertise and experience, here is a sample of some of the topics available:
- Guidance strategies – a guide to surviving the toddler and pre-school years.
- Your children’s temperament characteristics and how to honor that while setting rules and limits.
- Building healthy self-esteem and arousing empathy.
- Sharing: do you cringe when your child has trouble sharing? There are great answers ahead for you!
- Sibling rivalry : telling or tattling? When to get involved, how to create peace in chaos.
- Temper tantrums: yours or theirs? What is appropriate and how to teach during these times.
- How to turn the “no’s” into “yes”, finding joy and positive guidance in every situation.
- Separation anxiety and navigating through the first week at daycare.
- Keeping the family together at mealtime, parenting effectively in front of the in-laws, in a store or any public place…
- How to balance work and home while being on “parenting call 24/7.”
- Social media: behavior and the touch screen generation.
Classroom Support
It’s not unusual to find one of our team members visiting classrooms in your community. When a parent or educator has concerns that require a little extra help, we visit the classroom for a minimum of 2 hours. Children do not know we are there for them which allows for the most natural “running record” of all they say and do on that day.
All observations are 100% objective which means they are based on exactly what is seen and backed with evidence. For example, if a child was happy, it could be recorded as, “He was seen smiling”.
Once the observation time is completed you will receive a phone call letting you know how the time went, and then a detailed report will be written up and sent to you. Included in the report are recommendations for the home as well as the school and any recommendations that will benefit the educators and provide tools that could be helpful to your child. The goal is to collaborate with the family, educators and the director, always in the best interest of your child.
Tips and Tools
What a privilege to be invited into the classroom to work together in the best interest of the children. Often a “fresh face” brings a fresh perspective coupled with some new approaches.
With positive guidance and communication, we will come up with new strategies that guide the entire team, children and educators alike!
The Early Years “Tools in Your Pocket” approach will honor and respect methods already in place at the school, while moving forward with new ideas relevant to each child’s classroom setting. The more you will use these tools, the more success we can expect to achieve.
Children do not wake up each day saying, “How can I get my teacher mad?!” Contrary to what it may seem like, every child wakes up wanting to “get it right”.
For those children who are really out of control, the ones who are getting in the way of your teaching, we need to help them create a new cv or resume.
We want children to see themselves differently and we need to create a new direction for them, in a sense rewriting a new history. We also need to recognize our own limitations in that we see that child through the reputation he or she has already built for themselves. How can we push forward and facilitate a change in their self-perception?
We are going to work together and create a sense of achievement for that child so that they can thrive for even more success. Working Together For Our Children.
“Tools in your Pocket” Workshops for Educators
Behavior Management and Communication in the Classroom
What a privilege and fascinating journey we are on… raising up new generations!
We have a whole trunk filled with tools to offer you concerning behavior management, communication and curriculum in the classroom.
There are so many different elements you are considering each day as you navigate through each moment, day and season. All workshops are tailor made to fit the needs of the individual daycares and elementary schools while honoring developmentally appropriate strategies and practices. When choosing topics of interest, professional development workshops can last 2 hours or longer as needed as well as an “all day option” up to 7 hours in length.
Some of our topics include:
- The Whole Child in Preschool (Cognitive, Emotional, Social, and Physical)
- Classroom Transitions
- Navigating through the who, what, where, when and why of circle time.
- Social and Emotional Development
- Problem-Solving and Teachable Moments (conflict resolution)
- Early Brain Development and managing stress in young children.
- Choosing methods that work in each unique classroom, knowing your audience and building relationships.
- Ages and stages and temperament characteristics will help each educator in a deeper understanding of supposed defiance, outburst and difficult behaviors.
- Validation and the intentional teacher: Creating a classroom community and examination of outside influences.
- Creating success in children, understanding perceptions
- Helping children think for themselves, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation.
- Logical and natural consequences that are effective in a classroom environment.
- Practical application: Taking your scenarios and anecdotes and applying early childhood principles and offering creative on the spot solutions that work
- A different kind of “time-out”, reward systems, what they really are and what to do with them.
- Practical application: Taking your scenarios and anecdotes and applying early childhood principles and offering creative on the spot solutions that work.
