“Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity)”

Greg Smith: Greg has been an educator for 35 years, and he is the owner of Northwest Educational Providers. He has in excess of 40,000 hrs of one particular-on-one knowledge supporting pupils and mother and father in their respective mastering procedures. Greg is married with two teenage daughters and understands the challenges of parenting from equally a qualified and personalized perspective.

The Lessons

#1 Psychology and Neuroscience Essentials 

• The heritage of the human mind as it relates to academic accomplishment
• Mind wellbeing: the consequences of snooze, nourishment, exercise, and technological know-how
• Positive psychology: encouraging mental overall health and success
• Major by example: the value of modeling healthy behavior

#2 Progress Way of thinking Parenting

• The dynamic human brain: how the brain adjustments and grows
• Growth frame of mind vs. fixed way of thinking
• Advancement-minded language
• Primary by illustration: the development-minded way of life
• Cultivating healthful self-esteem and self-efficacy

#3 Learning and Understanding

• Test stress and anxiety: in which does it appear from and what can we do about it
• What is “studying?”: studying procedures and memory formation
• Challenge-resolving: technique, method, and the worth of true breaks
• Technological innovation: distractions, multitasking, and tech-habit
• The pursuit of mastery and adore of mastering: curiosity and depth vs. quality administration

#4 Behavioral Alter and Productiveness

• Realism: how change essentially happens
• Using willpower properly: habits, techniques, and reminders
• Self-perception: how outer change drives interior change
• Procrastination: why we do it and how to do it significantly less
• Perfectionism: relocating away from debilitating all-or-nothing wondering

#5 Cultivating Executive Perform

• Park the helicopter: how micromanaging hinders improvement
• Skinned knees: what young children find out when they are permitted to are unsuccessful
• Coaching vs. teaching: encouraging resourcefulness and independence
• Talking with your baby about school: navigating the emotional troubles of tutorial conversations
• Energetic agent vs. passive victim: blame, parental language, and cultivating responsibility

Q&A Bonus

• 1-hour bonus session for any follow-up queries on the last EF lesson or the system as a total.

If you pass up a class, we will present you with a recording of the lecture, but in order to maintain the privacy of the people who show up at, we will not be recording the Q&A.

Dates and Situations

July 12 – August 9th, Tuesdays, 7:30 – 9:30 pm US-Eastern / 4:30 – 6:30 pm US-Pacific. Q&A Bonus session will be held on August 23rd at the exact same time. Recordings of each session will be available for any lessons that had been missed, and life time obtain to the total established of recordings is supplied to all participants.

Price & Registration

$499 for each relatives (a set of mothers and fathers and/or guardians). Space is restricted, so be sure to enable us know right away that you’d like to reserve a place. To reserve your place, make sure you register In this article (all significant credit rating playing cards approved).

If you have to have to pay out by examine, you should email [email protected] and we’ll hold the reservation and send out an bill. Please deliver questions to [email protected].

Other Testimonies

“I took the parenting program in summertime 2019 and acquired so substantially about how the producing brain, progress frame of mind, and the great importance of modeling (as opposed to running), and a lot additional. I however have my notes and refer again to them periodically. I highly advocate the class for any individual fascinated in supporting their young children as they develop into lifelong learners.” 

–Caitlin Moulding

“Chris and Greg’s mum or dad seminars are not to be missed! In a short time, I became a lot more savvy about myself and my young children as learners. Their coaching suggestions purpose to minimize dad or mum-little one conflict by leveraging current exploration on the brain and descriptive stories of their students. I highly propose their seminars for moms and dads of all young children!” 

–Vicki Pettiross

“We attended Northwest Academic Services’ guardian seminar collection in 2019 – the content material was very applicable and perfectly introduced, and the welcoming environment presented us the chance to engage immediately with pro educators and other mother and father.  As mothers and fathers of middle and elementary school students, we were able to relate to the data shared, and use the seminar’s principles specifically into our own household interactions and dynamics.  We look forward to attending once again this year.” 

–Jill Nolton

“I discovered this sequence when my youngest scholar was in his remaining prep for college apps. How I would like that I had taken it several years earlier so I could have supported the two my pupils as a result of their schooling! The info Greg and Chris share is beneficial to all moms and dads but primarily individuals of pupils who battle academically or fight with the tension of perfectionism. Incorporating these lessons into my very own everyday living has been incredibly worthwhile but the worth is exponentially better to study and adopt the instruments and approaches although your students are nonetheless at house, planning for faculty and lifestyle. Fortunately my son was able to uncover his enthusiasm and prospective with Greg’s assistance. He became a hardworking higher college scholar, attends a really selective higher education, and is earning tutorial accolades. The possible is in every child, you just want the right guideline and guided parents to assist them come across it and draw it out.” 

–Kirsten Morrison

“We are the privileged moms and dads of twin daughters, each with exceptional-to-them strengths and issues in the finding out setting. No one-sizing-suits-all strategy for us. We ended up on the lookout for some coaching to kind out the very best strategies to give every daughter the certain support they essential to be prosperous in their faculty environments. The Parenting for Educational Good results classes we took by NWES furnished us with that and additional.

“Coaches Greg and Chris spoke to all studying styles, training mother and father how to stimulate their youngsters to detect and articulate what they required, and how to request for it, so that they could develop into impartial drivers of their have educational achievement. As soon as we started to carry out some of the resources we acquired, the two of our students began to, much more and extra conveniently, access out for assist from sources outside of us (other students, educational coaches, faculty tutors and instructors) and do so in a timely way, prior to check anxiety or task panic established in.

“We also acquired new applications to aid each daughters in getting to be additional dependable in their examine routines. Instead of ‘cramming’ the night before an exam, the girls commenced to acquire practices which vastly lowered past-moment, worry-driven finding out.

“Our daughters have now transitioned to fantastic-in good shape universities wherever they are pleased, engaged, independent, and regularly experiencing tutorial success.

“Greg and Chris introduced their combined many years of abilities coaching college students at all quality amounts, and advising mother and father who motivation to help pupil success, and shared concrete, very well knowledgeable, research based mostly, ground examined, details and strategies that aided us in our efforts to assist our exceptional learners. We cannot endorse them remarkably plenty of.”

-Kelly and Steve Nolan Shafer