In-person Events
Tea Time with Tina
How do you make a weekday afternoon special? Bring the kids to RC Fam for a Tea Party!
Mondays, 3:30-4:30, Raíces y Cariño: A Community Collective for Families (RC Fam), 1205 Freedom Blvd. Watsonville
FREE
Kids Day Santa Cruz
Come downtown for music, dancing, community resources for families and lots of fun! Visit me at the Survivors Healing Center booth for child abuse prevention information.
Saturday, May 3rd, 12-4pm, Pacific Avenue and Cooper Street, Downtown Santa Cruz
FREE
Birth and Baby Fair
How many different services are available for birthing families in Santa Cruz County? Come see for yourself! And don’t forget to stop by my table and say hi!
Saturday, May 17th, 11am-2pm, The Circle Family Center, 245 Sea Ridge Road, Aptos
FREE (so free you’ll walk away with a bunch of free information and swag!)
Online Workshops
Healthy Families: Parents’ Role in Preventing Abuse
As much as we want to, we can’t remove all danger from our children’s lives, but there are some concrete things we can do to lessen our children’s risk of abuse. Sadly, some of the aspects of traditional parenting were actually setting our children up for higher risk.
Join me for this 90 minute workshop and learn concrete steps you can take to lower your kids’ risk of abuse, and what to do if it does happen.
Next Session: Thursday, April 10th, 7:30-9pm PT
Suggested donation to Survivors Healing Center $20-40
What to Do Instead: Guiding Kids and Teens with Empathy and Trust
As parents, we want to help our kids get along with each other, respect and set healthy boundaries, and develop self-discipline. We know that the old ways of harsh discipline and unrealistic expectations don’t work. So what do we do instead?
Join me for this live online workshop (part of the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program from Nurturings.org) and learn positive, effective ways to guide your children.
Next session: Thursday, April 24th, 7:30-9pm PT
$40
Trying to do it all and have it all leads parents to burn out. And parenting is one job you can’t afford to burn out on, so give yourself a break!
Join me for this 90 minute online workshop (part of the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program from Nurturings.org) and learn strategies for simplifying your family life, prioritizing on what’s essential and balancing the needs of every member of your family – including you!
Next Session: Thursday, May 15th, 7:30-9pm PT
$40
We can’t all be stay-at-home parents, and our kids – even babies – can thrive spending time with several caregivers. The trick is to know some basic things about what our babies/kids need, so we can prioritize the important stuff when figuring out our substitute caregiver plans.
Join me for this 90n minute online workshop (part of the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program from Nurturings.org) and learn how we can give our little ones the consistent and loving care they need, no matter how much (or little) time we can take off work.
Next session: Thursday, May 29th, 7:30-9pm PT
$40
We don’t need more obedient adults. We don’t need another generation of people who were taught to color inside the lines and think inside the box.
So why is so much of the child rearing and discipline advice being given to parents (often uninvited) still geared to teach children to be compliant and obedient? Much of that advice comes from a place of mistrust in the inherent goodness of humanity. And it serves to preserve the power dynamics that are serving our species and our planet so poorly. Let’s teach our kids to think for themselves, question authority, and follow their instinct for fairness while they’re developing the ability to see things from the perspective of others. I know that sometimes we just want our kids to do what we say, because we are overwhelmed, but if we change the way we look at them and learn some new skills, we can raise the kind of rebels who will change the world – and – who we will enjoy living with!
Join me for this 90 minute online workshop and learn strategies for raising healthy, resilient humans with the authenticity, agency, compassion and courage that the future stewards of our planet need to have.
Next Session: TBD
$40
Empower Yourself: Preparing for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Knowledge is power. The more information you have going through the trials of pregnancy, birth and early parenting; the safer, calmer and more satisfied you will feel, even if it doesn’t all go exactly to plan.
Join me for this 90 minute workshop (part of the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program from Nurturings.org) to explore the things you need to think about and the help you need to enlist during pregnancy, in preparation for birth and in the immediate postpartum period.
Next session: TBD
$40
From Only to Older: Helping Your First Child Adjust to Being a Sibling
Going from being the only child to being an older sibling is tough on every first child, but there are things parents can do to help the love of their life feel secure through this transition.
Join me for this 90 minute online workshop and learn ways you can help your firstborn feel less jealousy and displacement, feel understood and accepted, and build a warm and playful sibling relationship.
Next session: TBD
$40
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