For Parents

Dear Parents,

What do you do when you have a parenting issue – do you live with it or do you blame it on the child, or yourself or the fact that you are working or the environment? Have you ever wondered how you can be guided to understand your child, her strengths, and his potential? How are you ensuring that you’re empowering the child with skills and characteristics that will help your child be successful in life? Do you often wonder how you best can partner with your child to not only ensure academic excellence but also build the right foundation for a wholesome life?

We, at Geniekids believe that there are effective approaches and strategies of developing and raising a child, to lead him and her to a happy successful life. We also believe that effective parenting does not come automatically but needs to be understood and acquired.

Geniekids launches Parenting Foundation an initiative to bring child experts from across disciplines to parents for professional guidance in all aspects of parenting through workshops, personal guidance, and resources.

Geniekids Parenting Foundation covers all parenting aspects (see detailed list)

1) Child development - understanding child development, disciplining, social and emotional development, pre-teen and teenager issues, developing success and life skills, values and character education, etc.

2) Intellectual and brain development like discovering potential, brain stimulation, learning games and activities, thinking skills, decision making, problem solving in young children, school and academic excellence, learning disabilities etc.

3) Pediatric care, medical and other child health related issues.

See below for:

• Range of topics that shall be covered through workshops and seminars. Click here to see Date wise current schedule of the workshops till Dec 2005 or requested through email.
  
• Meet some of our panel of child professionals like pediatricians, educators, child psychologists, academicians, child development specialists, etc.
  

Geniekids also actively conducts these parenting programs at schools, residential complexes, clubs, and companies. Please request your organization to get in touch with us to see how we can come to you and do programs for your group.

Individual workshop registration - 3hr workshop - Rs300 per parent;
Click here to see what parents have to say about our workshops.

Empower your parenting towards successful children through Geniekids committed, insightful and child centered initiatives!

Geniekids Parenting foundation - List of topics typically covered - many more topics will be covered and you can even send in your suggestions if you feel any topic of your interest is not covered.

Mind & Intelligence development

• Developing child's Intelligence
• Learning Games to play at home
• Understanding learning styles and using them to maximise learning
• Developing a thinking Mind
• Learning Study Skills to study smarter
• Using Graphic Organisers for better Learning
• Creativity Thinking and explosion of applied imagination
• Developing sharp Critical & Analytical Thinking

Behavioral development

• Enhancing Self Esteem in children.
• Developing Success Skills in children.
• Raising Responsible and Independent Children.
• Disciplining
• Working with challenging behaviours (aggression, hyperactivity etc).
• Emotional understanding of children and developing EQ.
• Understanding disruptive behaviour and preventing the same.
• Simple ways to empower your child for the life.
• Communicating to tap child's potential.

Social development

• Making Children more resourceful
• Developing People Skills in Children
• Developing Social Responsibility
• Effective Parent-Child Communication
• Creating Cooperative Families
• Handling Sibling Rivalry
• Team Working with children

Academic development

• Enhancing academic excellence
• Language development
• Using books effective and making child love reading
• Developing verbal intelligence and expressive power
• Creating Writing Skills in children
• Making Maths more meaningful and enjoyable
• Using and exploring Art, Clay and sand with children Helping in Homework Handling examination related stress and developing confidence in your child

Family & Other areas

• Balancing Work and Family
• Quality time with your Child
• Listening, Understanding and influencing strategies.
• Team Work in Family

Health & Physical Development

• Ensuring good physical development
• Exercise for children
• Diet & Nutrition
• Obesity in children
• Strategies to keep infections away
• Coughs, Colds & Flu
• First Aid with Children
• Role of Homeopathy with young children
• Understanding and managing childhood Asthma
• Breast feeding

Geniekids Parenting foundation - meet some of our FACULTY
(the list is only to give you idea of the professionals we have lined up for you)

• Ms Meena K Jain - Psycho educational consultant, remediation expert, Child psychologist, trainer, child and family counsellor
• Dr Sulata Shenoy - Consultant Child Psychologist working with Parijma Neurodiagnostic and Sagar Apollo Hospital and with many schools.
• Ms Maya Menon - Director of "The Teacher's Foundation" - Bangalore's premiere teacher training organisation.
• Ms Sonali Bhatia - Education consultant to many schools, Expert on books and library for children.
• Ms Juvena Jalal - Child Psychologist, Special Educator, Teacher Trainer.
• Dr Indira Swaminathan - Education Consultant, Director Akshayam Early learning center .
• Dr Yeseswini kamaraju - Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Consultant to Spastics society and ASHA..
• Dr Jagdish & Dr Aruna - Pediatricians and active parent and child trainers.
• Mr Ratnesh Mathur - Founder Director of Geniekids, Parent and Teacher trainer.
• Dr Ali Khwaja - Trainer, Counselor, founder of Banjara Academy and Helping Hands.
• Ms Uma Khanna - Teacher for 25 years, ex-Principal, Teacher Trainer and educational consultant working with many schools.

Geniekids Parenting foundation - Membership Packages

Individual workshop registration - 3hr workshop - Rs300 per parent;

Visit GenieKids center to understand our approach and programs and to explore opportunities available for children, parents and teachers.

Phones: 2520-2510, 98450-45833

Email: ratnesh@geniekids.com

Website: www.geniekids.com

Geniekids Learning Center:
No 18, 16-E Main, Next to Lohitha Hospital,
Near Rotary Club,
HAL 2nd Stage, Bangalore-08.

Click here for directions to Geniekids