Jody Johnston Pawel
LSW, CFLE
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Parenting children ages 1-18 & Parent Education Expert
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- Main Areas
- Parenting children ages 1-18, media expert (host or interviews)
- Best Sellers
- The Parent’s Toolshop®: The Universal Blueprint® for Building a Healthy Family
- Career Focus
- Parenting author & speaker
- Affiliation
- Parent's Toolshop Consulting, Ltd.
Jody Johnston Pawel is a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator, second-generation parent educator, and President of Parents Toolshop Consulting. She is the author of over 75 multimedia parenting resources, including her award-winning book, The Parent's Toolshop. For 30 years, Jody has trained parents and family professionals through her dynamic, interactive and informative workshops and has served as a parenting expert to the media worldwide. She has given hundreds of interviews and her advice has appeared in nearly every major parenting magazine and newspaper nationwide. She is also a parenting expert columnist for nearly a dozen major parenting websites. She was the Co-Producer and Parenting Expert for the Emmy-nominated Ident-a-Kid television series and is currently the host of Parents Tool Talk, a live call-in radio show.
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10 Ways to Get Back into the School Routine
Come on, admit it. You intended to keep a schedule this summer, but when the kids slept in you liked the extra quiet time. Then the daylight lasted so long it was often later than you realized when the kids finally hit the sack. Not living by the clock was a refreshing change of pace, but school will be starting in a few weeks and you know the kids and you need to get back into the groove. First, let me assure you, it's healthier to have a flexible schedule than a rigid one. So have no guilt about your summer schedule.
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Prepare Teens to Leave the Nest
This month our family is experiencing two major transitions. Our youngest child is entering high school and our oldest is starting college out of town, in an apartment with three strangers. Each has brought unique challenges to my children — and us, their parents. Our experiences have reinforced the importance of the lessons we taught our college-bound child and those we need to focus on with our high-schooler. The High School Years Entering high school is simultaneously scary and exciting for teens, because of all the unknowns.
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The Top Ten Best Tools for Improving Relationships at Home AND Work
I am a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator who has been training parents for over 25 years. As a second-generation parent educator, however, I’ve been involved with parenting classes for almost 40 years, because my parents taught classes while I was growing up. (Read my bio. for more info.) Because I had such a head start, I spent the first 10 years of my career collecting and compiling the parenting skills that research has proven to be effective long-term. In the process, I discovered, developed and tested a system for responding effectively to any parenting challenge.
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Use Fall Sports to Teach Healthy Competition
‘Tis the season for Fall sports — when parents spend more time at playing fields or driving to games than they spend at home. At the game, parents enthusiastically cheer their child’s team and discuss the game on the car ride home. While most parents have good intentions, they can inadvertently discourage a child and promote unhealthy competition if they don’t choose their words carefully. First, let’s define the difference betwee "healthy" and "unhealthy" competition: Healthy competition focuses on doing one’s best, having fun, and learning skills.
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Achieve Your New Years' Resolutions -- or Any Goal!
Every New Year, many of us set goals and resolve to meet them — only to become discouraged and quit. Here are suggestions for removing the most common barriers blocking our success — in parenting, our careers, marriage...and Life! First, set attainable goals. To illustrate, consider ...
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Creating Your Own Support System
I recently was asked by another mother at home, "What do you find most difficult about being an at-home mother?" I replied, "No sick leave, days off, or vacation time. Hey, let's form a union!" We both laughed at the idea of a mothers' union, but we realized we already had the next best ...
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Using Behavior Modification Techniques
Many professionals who dispense parenting advice tell parents to use rewards or create "behavior modification" token systems to teach children a skill, to get children to take on a responsibility, or to curb an unwanted behavior or habit. Often, however, rewarding good behavior with behavior ...
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Ten Terrific Talking Tools
When parents have a problem or concern, they need to keep their cool and use non-blameful ways to communicate their feelings. As soon as parents threaten or blame, children stop listening and start thinking about how to defend themselves. If you want others to listen to your feelings or ...
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Improving Your Family's Communication
Imagine this scene: A neighbor is at your house, visiting over a cup of tea. You start feeling irritated and pressured when you realize you are running late for an appointment. What would you say to your neighbor? Imagine the same situation, except it's your child at the breakfast table. How ...
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December Discipline for Naughty Children
As a parenting expert to the media, I usually do extra media interviews during the holidays. Usually the topics focus on the extra stress of hectic holiday schedules or my “Taming the Holiday Gimmees” article. This year, I've been getting some thought-provoking questions about ...
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Taming The Holiday Gimmees
Gift-giving season has begun. If you’re like me, you fantasize about the moment your children open their gifts: their faces light up with surprise and excitement, they give you a hug and say, “Thanks, I love it!” To reach that moment, however, we often have to survive that ...
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Helping Children Succeed in School
As children return to the classroom, parents often wonder how they can help their children succeed in school — without doing too much for their children. There are two key areas in which parents have tremendous influence: success attitudes and skills. A successful school attitude is ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jody Johnston Pawel
My mission is to improve the lives of the children with whom we live and work, by preparing children for responsible adulthood and enhancing every relationship in each family member's life. I empower parents to think for themselves by teaching them a unique, reliable problem-solving method that helps them find individualized solutions to their parenting challenges. Only Parents Toolshop®'s Universal Blueprint® programs teach this problem-solving method and 100+ practical tools parents can use at each step of their response. These skills are based on sound parenting theories that have been known to parent educators for decades and include the most practical and effective parenting tools every parent needs to know and use. Parents also learn how to apply these steps and skills to any relationship — including non-parenting adult relationships. Parents get practical solutions they can use every time, every day — with lasting results! With over 15 years outcome-focused skill assessment results and long-term follow-up, the Parents Toolshop model has been proven effective with thousands of parents nationwide.
Contacting Jody Johnston Pawel
Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE
Author of the award-winning book, The Parents Toolshop®, top-rated speaker and parenting expert to the media
Parent's Toolshop Consulting and Ambris Publishing: Building Confidence Through Competence.
P.O. Box 343 ~ Springboro, OH 45066
Phone: 937-748-4541
Fax: 937-748-4620
E-mail: Pawel@ParentsToolshop.com
URL: http://www.ParentsToolshop.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/parentstoolshop
Twitter: www.twitter.com/parentstoolshop
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The Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success Formula: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/7ecourse/ubdesc.htm
All Products/Resource catalog: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/order_start.html
Take a complimentary 7-day e-course at http://www.parentstoolshop.com/7ecourse
More Freebies: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/freebies.htm
Listen to Parents Tool Talk radio at: http://www.parentstooltalk.com/ (archives also at iTunes)
See Parents Toolshop programs available: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/programs.htm
Get Jody's speaker kit: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/DwnldSkrKit.htm
Interview Jody: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/presskit/ (audio samples available here, too)
Parents Toolshop Group Facilitator and Advisor Certification: http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/teach.htm