Susan Tordella: "Make Peace with the Mini-Tyrant in Your Home" October 23, 2010

Parents: Do you have count the minutes until your little tyrant goes to school? Are you worn out from asking your children to do the same thing over and over? Is everything a negotiation?

Learn three tactics to enjoy your children instead of enduring them from a parenting expert, speaker and author, Susan Tordella at a special event hosted by The Rabbit Hole on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 2 pm, 805 Main St. in Fitchburg, Mass., telephone... 978-345-0040. Children welcome.

Hear a three-step process to make peace with your mini-tyrant by using mutual respect, family meetings - dinner - and chores, the Triple EE - encouragement-expectation-empowerment, kindness and firmness, and natural and logical consequences.

The goal is to make peace with your difficult child without stifling him or
her.

Susan Tordella, M.A. is the mother of four children born in seven years, two of whom aspired to be mini-tyrants. She kept a sense of humor when sharing her home and car with teenagers for 13 years. A parenting expert, Susan has coached scores of parents in workshops and one-on-one. She is author of the book, "Raising Able: how chores empower families."

Susan can be heard regularly on Monday mornings on WCAP 980. She has been interviewed by the Associated Press, WBZ Radio, Redbook, CNN, the Boston Globe, Psychology Today, multiple blogs and local newspapers and cable TV shows. She blogs at www.raisingable.com.

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