ABOUT OUR TRAININGS
Our daycare provider trainings are meant to help benefit the health, wellness, and lives of you as a daycare provider and your daycare children.
Choose from the categories of reducing stress in your: daycare business, daycare environment, daycare children, and yourself. When you take time for self care, relaxation, and stress reduction the quality of you and your daycare children gets better.
Our goal is to educate in-home providers to allow their lives to be happier, healthier, and less stressful, which in turn benefits the quality of care they can give their children.
HOW IT WORKS:
- simply choose the trainings you would like, order and pay on-line (each hour of training costs $10)
- you will receive your training via snail mail within one week or email us and we will send it to you via email
- trainings consist of:
reading material and studying
applying methods or using techniques discussed in the literature
take a test, answering questions about the writing and applications
- send in your test with the enclosed envelope
- upon correction of the test you will receive a training completion certificate
**Please check with your licensing agency for final approval of the classes for continuing education. For those states that allow on-line and correspondence courses, many of our classes will count for your hours, check with your state agency on what counts in your state.
COURSE OFFERINGS:
STRESS EDUCATION
Understanding the Effects of Stress and Reducing it in your Daycare Life
– 3 hours
You will learn:
- what stress is
- about the sympathetic and parasympathetic states
- how stress affects the body and mind
- how stress shows up in your personal and daycare life
- about the process of stress
- what stressors are and learn how to identify your stressors in your life
- about the three stages of stress reduction
- what burnout is and how to avoid it
- what determines how well you cope with stress and building resilience
- how to begin to decrease stress in your life
BUSINESS
Dealing with Daycare Parents – 2 hours
You will learn:
- techniques to deal with your daycare parents to best meet both of your needs
- how to deal with confrontation and conflict with your daycare parents
- how to avoid the pitfalls of poor communication with your parents
- how to be a professional and use good communication with your daycare parents
Being Professional and a Good Business Owner in your Daycare – 2 hours
You will Learn:
- the challenges of being a business owner
- how to run your daycare like other businesses
- how to maintain a business relationship and be professional with your daycare parents and kids
- common business success blocks
- common business myths and truths
The Ups and Downs of Being Daycare Providers and How to Stay Up – 2 hours
You will learn:
- to explore why you became a provider
- to understand common challenges and benefits of being an in-home daycare provider
- ways to stay connected to your purpose as a provider
- setting your intention and creating the daycare you desire
- how to get true with what you do and stay aligned with why you do it
CHILDREN
Recognizing and Dealing with Stress in your Daycare Children – 1 hour
You will learn:
- how stress affects children
- signs and symptoms of stress in children
- how to be aware of this stress
- several ways to help children deal with stress
Infant and Toddler Massage – 3 hours
You will learn:
- benefits of massage for infants and toddlers and their caregivers
- how massage can help premature babies and children with special needs
- how to prepare yourself and your environment for a relaxing massage
- how to integrate massage into your day and to advocate it to parents
- massage techniques for children’s legs, feet, back, belly, chest, neck, arms, hands, and face
Yoga for Preschoolers – 2 hours
You will learn:
- the physical and mental benefits of yoga for children
- breathing and relaxation exercises for yoga with children
- fun animal exercises and nature yoga for preschoolers
Relaxation Exercises and Games for Daycare Children – 2 hours
You will learn:
- how relaxation exercises benefit kids physically and mentally, help them fall to sleep faster and sleep better as well as help conditions such as digestive disorders, stomachaches, behavioral problems, anxiety and more.
- breathing exercises for relaxation and wellness
- step by step guided relaxation exercises that kids love
Meditation for Preschoolers - 2 hours
You will learn:
- physical and mental benefits of meditation for children
- how meditation helps children focus, learn better, relax themselves, and gain confidence
- how to prepare and tips to teach meditations to your daycare kids
- how to teach your kids to use the breath in meditation
- seven fun and easy step by step mediations to teach your children
How to Have a More Stress-Free Naptime – 2 hours
You will learn:
- how to establish a naptime ritual
- how to make a more relaxing environment fro your kids to wind down quicker and fall asleep easier
- several ways to help you have an easier nap time
Discipline and Behavioral Time Savers – 2 hours
You will learn:
- why children misbehave
- what sets in the way of children’s good behavior
- how to assess the discipline in your daycare
- how to get your kids to do what you want them to
- positive discipline methods
- ways to save the time you spend battering with your daycare kids
- ways to instill good behavior in your kids
SELF
Six Basics of Health for you and your Daycare children – 2 hours
You will learn:
- how to reduce stress and better health in your and your daycare kids lives by going back to the basics
- the six important basics of health guaranteed to help reduce stress and increase the health in your daycare
- how to improve your stress level through what you eat and drink
- different types of exercise and how they can benefit you and your daycare children
- how the way you breath and rest affects your health
- how what we think affects our health
Using Positive Thinking to have the Daycare Business that You Want – 3 hours
You will learn:
- how what you think affects your health, wellness, and your business
- how the law of attraction works and how you can use it to attract good things into your life and business
- how to use forgiveness to heal yourself and to deal with your business more professionally and with less stress
- how to use affirmations and positive attitude to rephrase your thinking
- why we don’t already have what we want and how to change your thinking so you can
Relaxation Exercises and Energy Boosters for Daycare Providers – 3 hours
You will learn:
- how relaxation techniques can help your health including conditions such as high blood pressure, low energy, joint or muscle pain, depression and anxiety
- relaxation techniques to help lower your stress throughout the day
- breathing exercises that you can easily do throughout the day to help increase your energy, health, and well being
- energy boosters to do to help keep you going through your day
Meditation for Relaxation for Daycare Providers – 2 hours
You will learn:
- the physical and mental benefits of meditation
- the reasons people meditate
- how to prepare your environment and yourself for meditation
- seven basic meditations that can be used by anyone that include sitting, standing, walking, and sound meditation along with using color, mantras, and forgiveness for healing in meditation
Self and Partner Massage Techniques for Daycare Providers – 3 hours
You will learn:
- physical and psychological benefits of massage therapy
- how massage can help with conditions such as headaches, neck pain, sore backs, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, etc.
- self massage techniques that you can use to release tension in your hands, arms, feet and head
- partner massage techniques for backs shoulders, hands and feet
- massage tools that you can use to relieve sore and tight muscles
Using Aromatherapy for Wellness in your Daycare – 1 hour
You will learn:
- the definition and history of aromatherapy
- how using aromatherapy has been known to help with conditions such as headaches, stomachaches, cold, fatigue, depression, anxiety, etc.
- different ways to use essential oils and aromatherapy in your life
- the properties and benefits of twelve common essential oils
- essential oil blends that you can use to help boost your health and wellness
Stretches and Easy Yoga Exercises for Daycare Providers – 2 hours
You will learn:
- the physical and mental benefits of yoga
- easy yoga poses that you can bring into your day to help heal and strengthen the areas in your back, hips, legs, and arms
- several specific stretches that you can use throughout the day to release tension in your back, neck, arms, shoulders, hands and wrists.
Simplifying your Life and Time Management for the Daycare Provider – 3 hours
You will learn:
- why your life can get so chaotic and easy ways to simplify your life
- the different roles that we play in our lives and how you can better balance your roles
- why balancing your time is so important, how to assess and prioritize how you spend your time and several time saving techniques
- how to maximize your nap time to be able to get the break that you need
- how to save time and energy by transitioning between your days activities
ENVIRONMENT
Using Feng Shui and Color in your Environment to Create the Daycare you Want – 5 hours
You will learn:
- how the set up of your environment can affect how you feel physically and emotionally
- how to clear the clutter in all areas of your home to have a more balanced and successful business
- how to de-clutter an area and keep a “clear” space
- how to set up your daycare area for wellness and balance
- basic feng shui principals to use in your daycare home
- how to use color to elicit certain moods and effects in your daycare
Reducing Toxic Chemicals and Using Safe Substitutes in your Daycare Environment – 2 hours
You will Learn:
- how the chemicals in your home can affect you, your daycare children’s and your daycare family’s health, can lower your immunity and can cause allergies and other health conditions
- what chemicals are contained in many of your products and the effects of each
- many safe substitutes you can use to increase the wellness in your daycare