Classes and Events

Join Kidpower North Carolina Center Director and Mojo Mom author Dr. Amy Tiemann in Pittsboro (just south of Chapel Hill) on Wednesday, March 16th, from 7 to 9 pm, for her powerful parent education workshop. This is an official Kidpower North Carolina event. This parent/adult education seminar is free and open to the public thanks to the sponsorship of our host, Community Independent School. RSVP is required; see details below.

All parents have questions about child safety–How do I know when my child is ready to go to a playdate alone? How about a sleepover or summer camp? What does my child need to know, and what as a parent do I need to check out when it comes to choosing a babysitter, school, or camps? How can schools create a safe environment where bullying is not tolerated? How do I teach my child about safety with people we know as well as “stranger safety”? How can we maximize our kids’ opportunities to explore the world freely, while staying safe?

Many of us parents have a “knowledge gap” when it comes to these issues–it’s just not a part of our general parent education the way it needs to be. If you just watch media coverage that focuses on tragedies rather than everyday successes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. I have been teaching parenting education seminars for about seven years now and have found that when you give parents information they can trust and act on, their anxiety goes down and confidence goes up. Since 2006 I have been teaching as an official Kidpower instructor. Kidpower’s workshops for children present the best teaching tools I have found for working directly with kids. You’ll hear more about how my work is evolving in this direction very soon, but for now I want to highlight a Parent Education seminar I am teaching in Raleigh next week, Wednesday January 12th. The talk is free and open to the public, thanks to the sponsorship of the Montessori School of Raleigh, so I hope my local readers can join us!

Here are the event details and RSVP information for the seminar in Pittsboro on Wednesday, March 16th. Please be sure to note that this particular seminar is for Parent Education, and other adults who work with kids. We talk about these issues on a different level when it’s just adults in the room, therefore we cannot accommodate children at this training.

Community Independent School sponsors:
Safe Kids in an Uncertain World: A Kidpower Workshop for Parents and Teachers

Dr. Amy Tiemann, Kidpower child safety expert and award-winning author and educator, has designed this seminar to give families the skills needed to become Savvy Parents, who make abuse prevention part of their family’s education and Resourceful Kids, who are well-versed in safety skills and know when, how, and whom to ask for help.

Topics include:
· Preventing abuse, molestation, or abduction by strangers or acquaintances
· Teaching children HOW to talk to strangers
· Identifying two simple warning signs that a situation presents an increased risk for abuse
· Making Kidpower safety skills part of daily life, increasing a child’s confidence while reducing anxiety
When: Wednesday, March 16th
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: Community Independent School, 2809 Lamont Norwood Rd., Pittsboro NC 27312

This event is free and open to the public. To register, please contact Rebecca Horniman at 919-932-6313 or rebecca@communityindependentschool.org. Due to the nature of the discussion, we are not able to accommodate children at the seminar. Childcare will be available only for currently enrolled Community Independent School families.

About Dr. Amy Tiemann
Dr. Amy Tiemann is an award-winning author and educator who plays a central role in today’s parenting conversation. She has helped women embrace motherhood as an opportunity for reinvention with her book Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family. Her writing has catapulted her MojoMom.com movement into what is now one of the most popular online parenting resources. Tiemann has written her Mojo Mom blog since 2003 and has continued to find new ways to reach out to readers online. Visitors have logged more than 125,000 downloads of her Mojo Mom Podcasts alone. A sought-after speaker and commentator, Tiemann is a frequent guest expert on parenting websites, national radio tours, magazines from Redbook to Glamour, and TV including ABC News, the CBS Early Show, and NBC’s Today Show.

Tiemann combines her multiple points of view as a scientist, educator, author, and parent when she addresses child safety issues. She is a certified Kidpower instructor and is the Center Director for Kidpower North Carolina. Kidpower helps kids be successful in learning and practicing personal safety, confidence, self-protection and advocacy skills. The skills taught by Kidpower helps participants prevent or stop most bullying, molestation, assault and abduction.

Please pass this invitation along, and I hope you’ll join our great group of Triangle-based parents! If you are not in my local area you can still visit the Kidpower’s international headquarters website for a ton of great information and resources on child safety, including Kidpower founder Irene van der Zande’s new e-book, Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe.