Founder and President | Celebrate Kids, Inc.
We are honored to have Dr. Kathy Koch participating in this year’s Parenting track (sponsored by WORLD News Group and Homeschool.com).
Dr. Kathy Koch (pronounced “Cook”), the founder and president of Celebrate Kids, Inc., has influenced thousands of parents, teachers, and children in 30 countries through keynote messages, seminars, chapels, and other events. Her practical, relevant, results-oriented concepts and engaging, honoring, and humorous speaking style draw enthusiastic reviews from children, teens, parents, and educators. They leave her events armed with new beliefs, attitudes, practical tools, and increased hope to make appropriate changes, establish healthy relationships, and increase success in family, life, and school.
She is a regular presenter for Great Homeschool Conventions, Hearts at Home, Care Net, many pregnancy resource centers, and churches. She is also a popular guest on Focus on the Family radio and other radio talk-shows. She has authored six books including four published by Moody. Her newest two are Eight Great Smarts: Discover and Nurture Your Child’s Intelligences and Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World.
Dr. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in reading and educational psychology from Purdue University. She was a tenured associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a teacher of second graders, a middle school coach, and a school board member prior to becoming a full-time conference and keynote speaker in 1991. She has loved Jesus for years and her faith and desire to serve and glorify God is the foundation of her ministry.
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Workshops by Dr. Kathy Koch
Are you frustrated because your children aren’t changing in ways you want them to? Learn subtle attitudes and habits that make change difficult so you can decrease their effects. Then learn strategies, relevant Scripture, and a change process that will work!
The ways we compliment and correct contribute to either a culture of effort and joy or apathy and fear. How to compliment and correct well, and not criticize, will be explained and modeled. Examples and stories will make the ideas come alive.
All children have eight intelligences that can be used when learning. Each one will be defined and illustrated. Learn how to help your children learn with all eight and how they are relevant to academic success, spiritual growth, obedience, and career choice.
When children don’t focus or don’t know what to focus on they become frustrated and less motivated and so do you. Learn how to focus their thinking so they know what to think about, what to think with, and why. The practical and realistic planning model will increase learning and decrease everybody’s frustration. Ideas are relevant for all ages and content areas.
Are your children easily frustrated by their mistakes? Do they give up quickly or resist taking risks? Do they whine that things are too hard? Learn what contributes to all of this and what to do.
Life is a series of choices and their consequences, which lead to new decisions and choices to make. Therefore, teaching children how to choose and how to make wise decisions may be among the most important things we do. Learn a variety of strategies children can use. Learn what they must be rooted in.
A fresh look at effective teaching by the Master Teacher will inspire you to be more like Him. He was the best teacher! Come to learn something new about Jesus, teaching, and learning. This fresh look at effective teaching will inspire you.
Your children may have much in common with Edison and Einstein! It’s very probable that you and your children are blessed with many of the twelve genius qualities. Let’s discover them and how they can be encouraged.
Explore relevant character qualities, things all motivated children must believe, and four necessary parental roles, as well as many realistic ideas that will increase your children’s motivation to learn, succeed, and obey.
Parents can consistently use strategic power words to efficiently and effectively direct children’s thinking, beliefs, choices, character, attitudes, and behavior. Using these power words will increase cooperation and obedience, decrease frustration and arguments, and build healthier parent-child relationships. Curious? You’ll have to attend to hear some of Dr. Kathy’s favorites. You will not be disappointed.
Strong-willed children and others can struggle to be obedient. They may choose to debate, argue, and delay instead. Learn several strategies that can immediately improve your relationships and lead to peace and first-time obedience.
Understand five lies children have learned from technology. Learn why they believe them, how they’re influencing their beliefs and behaviors, and practical things to do to help them mature even as they still keep using technology (it’s here to stay!). You’ll find hope in the message and be especially encouraged by one of the first ideas Dr. Kathy shares.
It’s dangerous, troublesome, and common today for children (and adults) to confuse needs with wants. (Do we need a cup of coffee or want one?) Not only that, but once we and our children identify our needs, what if we try to meet them in counterfeit ways? There are huge ramifications for our beliefs, expectations, attitudes, and actions in areas such as joy, learning, motivation, relationships, character, and spiritual growth. You’ll be refreshed by this practical problem-solving approach. To change the fruit, we must change the roots. Where are you and your children grounded?
Identity—how children define themselves—is extremely important. It controls behavior. Learn where your children get their identity from, why it matters, and how it influences their academics, relationships, spiritual growth, and so much more.
