How to Talk to Kids Before They Talk Back:
Words that Prevent Power Struggles
In this session, participants will: 1. Apply a new mindset and perspective to the power of intentional language used between birth and five. 2. Explore verbal vs. non-verbal communication strategies. 3. Articulate the difference between receptive and expressive language for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 4. Learn to identify and match intentional language scripts to the learning opportunity from a shortlist of age-appropriate self-skills. (i.e. emotional awareness/regulation, delayed gratification, early choice making, ownership of natural consequences.
Cara Tyrell
Who is Cara Tyrell?
Cara has Bachelors degrees in ASL and Linguistics and a Masters degree in Education. She is a trained Early Childhood Teacher and Early Years Caregiver, continuing education consultant, and parent coach. In her preschool and Kindergarten classrooms she identified a pattern of underdeveloped skill sets in her students, indicating a lack of overall readiness to learn.
After years of hearing parents say, “I’m so glad you are their first teacher” Cara realized, she wasn’t! The solution to arming Preschoolers and Kindergarteners with comprehensive readiness skills for finding success in school started with those same parents, in the family home, at birth.
This led to her professional pivot. Cara left the classroom to test her Collaborative Parenting Methodology(TM) as a full-service nanny, serving a family from the birth of their child until they entered a traditional school setting. Years of implementing strategies, systems, and scripts, confirmed her hypothesis. All children, regardless of their birth origin or natural characteristics, can thrive as early learners in the Core4Readiness areas when parents and caregivers create the environment with intention.
In early 2020, at the onset of the COVID pandemic, Cara felt called to bring the Core4Methodolgy for raising truly world-ready kids to the world. To arm proactive parents with the tools they want and need to raise happy healthy, successful kids; is the true gift.
Through Core4Parenting, she’s shifting the focus: Parenting Personal Development meets Early Childhood Education.
Cara’s coined the phrases Parenting GPS and teaches how to write a Personalized Parenting Mission Statement as the cornerstone of her Collaborative Parenting Methodology(TM) serving the ILY: Invisible Learning Years from birth to five.