Corporate organizations reach out to Dr Debmita for parenting workshops because they recognize that
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Parenting stress is invariably carried to work and impacts concentration and productivity.
Research has found that emotional distance with children and their rude and disrespectful behaviour at home is emotionally draining for parents. Employees who struggle with parenting issues at home arrive at work depleted and dejected. And this fuels a cycle of unhappiness and unproductivity at the workplace. Parenting support at the workplace can help parents to manage family issues before they turn into workplace problems. |
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“Working mothers” burdened by the stresses of work and career have been forced to leave the workforce for many years now. And this has impacted all efforts put into maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations.
This loss has the potential to erode the social fabric of the workplace because studies show that women managers are a greater support to employee well-being than their male counterparts. In recent years however, workforce attrition due to parenting issues has transformed from a “working mother” issue to a “working parent” issue. Fathers today want to be present and involved in parenting their children. And they are willing to make significant career decisions to get what they want. Parents leaving organizations because they are unsatisfied with their parenting efficacy has a significant role to play in “the great resignation” that is plaguing the world. And this is bad news for organizations. When parents leave the workforce – organizations lose employees in key managerial and individual contributor roles. Employees who are either leaders or on the track to leadership. This impacts the organization’s institutional knowledge, managerial capabilities, and mentorship pipeline. |
How do Dr Debmita Dutta’s parenting workshops help parents?
They reduce the time required to parent Get it right the first time.
Eliminate trial-and-error parenting. The workshops teach parents how to parent within the constraints of urban living. |
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They reduce parenting stressThey help parents feel resilient in the VUCA worldParenting is stressful primarily because it requires parents to make ‘a decision a minute’ for another person. And each decision has the potential to be life impacting. The workshops teach parents about the needs of the growing brain and body and make it easier to make decisions and keep parents stress free.
Confident and decisive parents and raise confident children. |
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They help parents feel resilient in the VUCA worldEliminate emotional distance and feel supported by your relationship with your child even when everything around you is volatile.
The workshops teach parents how to implement loving discipline that strengthens their relationships with their children. Understanding neurobiology and neurophysiology can help you build empathy and eliminate expectation mismatch which can damage relationships. |
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They help parents feel competent and build self-esteemFeel good about your parenting actions by learning neuroscience-based skills. The workshops teach parents the enjoyable way to be effective while parenting. No one can tell you how to parent your child. But neuroscience can help you understand what will work and what won’t.
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They decrease parenting guilt and shameUnderstand the “why” behind the “should(s)” that are prescribed in parenting and stop feeling guilty and ashamed about the things you should do – but can’t for various reasons. The workshops clearly explain what children need and what they can easily thrive without.
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They are easy to understandLearn about neuroscience and the latest research in parenting without mind-boggling medical terminology. The workshops are fun sessions where neuroscience and neurobiology are explained with fun examples from everyday life.
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There is no judging or shaming or preachingThe workshops are a joyful path to empathetic and compassionate parenting solutions.
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About the workshops
These are 40-minute sessions followed by a 20-minute question and answer session.
The workshops can be conducted both online and offline
Dr Debmita always prefers to customize her workshops to cater to the needs of the participants.
The workshops can be conducted both online and offline
Dr Debmita always prefers to customize her workshops to cater to the needs of the participants.
Popular corporate workshops
Parenting is one of the prime reasons for ‘the great resignation’. Most parents are led to believe that the solution to all parenting problems is ‘time’. If they spend ‘more time’ with their children – all their parenting problems will be over.
This however is far from the truth.
When parents spend ‘more time’ with their children, without a clear understanding of what they should do during that time – they often get frustrated and dejected, and their children become crankier and even more difficult to manage. This is a lose-lose situation.
What can create a win-win?
1. Understanding what children really need from their parents
2. How to use neuroscience to deliver what children need in the time available
What participants will take away from the workshop –
1. Why they can stop feeling guilty about not having time.
2. Discover the time that they have but don’t know about.
3. Learn how to give their children what they need in the time available.
This however is far from the truth.
When parents spend ‘more time’ with their children, without a clear understanding of what they should do during that time – they often get frustrated and dejected, and their children become crankier and even more difficult to manage. This is a lose-lose situation.
What can create a win-win?
1. Understanding what children really need from their parents
2. How to use neuroscience to deliver what children need in the time available
What participants will take away from the workshop –
1. Why they can stop feeling guilty about not having time.
2. Discover the time that they have but don’t know about.
3. Learn how to give their children what they need in the time available.
Parenting is stressful because in most cases it is undeniably future-focused. Every minute of bringing up children is made up of ensuring that the future is secure for their child.
However, no one knows what the future will be like and so no amount of preparation is adequate to tackle what will come.
Preparing children to succeed in the future then can feel like running on a treadmill to reach a destination. And it eventually leads to burnout.
Additionally, children don’t respond well to stress. They become obstinate and rebellious. This makes parenting feel exhausting and leaves no energy to enjoy work.
How can parents enjoy parenting?
1. Build an understanding of what children will need to succeed in the future.
2. Use neuroscience to tweak their parenting to build those qualities into their children
What participants take away from the workshop –
1. An understanding of why they need to stop doing the things that are making them feel rushed, overwhelmed, and ineffective.
2. They discover what they need to do to build the qualities children will require in the future.
3. They discover the secret to creating an environment where children are intrinsically motivated.
However, no one knows what the future will be like and so no amount of preparation is adequate to tackle what will come.
Preparing children to succeed in the future then can feel like running on a treadmill to reach a destination. And it eventually leads to burnout.
Additionally, children don’t respond well to stress. They become obstinate and rebellious. This makes parenting feel exhausting and leaves no energy to enjoy work.
How can parents enjoy parenting?
1. Build an understanding of what children will need to succeed in the future.
2. Use neuroscience to tweak their parenting to build those qualities into their children
What participants take away from the workshop –
1. An understanding of why they need to stop doing the things that are making them feel rushed, overwhelmed, and ineffective.
2. They discover what they need to do to build the qualities children will require in the future.
3. They discover the secret to creating an environment where children are intrinsically motivated.
Parenting has been called one of the most difficult jobs on earth. And it is, because a large part of parenting consists of making children do things that they don’t want to do. And being at the receiving end of rude and disrespectful behaviour.
As difficult as it may be however, it is impossible for parents to not feel incompetent and inadequate when they feel ineffective as parents.
Unsatisfactory performance as parents is emotionally draining. And those parents who struggle with parenting issues at home arrive at work depleted and dejected. And this fuels a cycle of unhappiness and unproductivity at the workplace.
What can help parents feel effective?
1. An understanding of the neuroscience behind why children don’t listen
2. Discovery of why traditional discipline methods don’t work and what to do to build the thinking brain.
What participants take away from the workshop?
1. An understanding of what they can do to ensure that routine tasks get done without nagging
2. A realization of what discipline strategies they need to let go of
3. What they need to do to be effective as parents.
As difficult as it may be however, it is impossible for parents to not feel incompetent and inadequate when they feel ineffective as parents.
Unsatisfactory performance as parents is emotionally draining. And those parents who struggle with parenting issues at home arrive at work depleted and dejected. And this fuels a cycle of unhappiness and unproductivity at the workplace.
What can help parents feel effective?
1. An understanding of the neuroscience behind why children don’t listen
2. Discovery of why traditional discipline methods don’t work and what to do to build the thinking brain.
What participants take away from the workshop?
1. An understanding of what they can do to ensure that routine tasks get done without nagging
2. A realization of what discipline strategies they need to let go of
3. What they need to do to be effective as parents.
Most parents feel guilty when they encounter negative emotions on their parenting journey. They imagine that parenting should be a journey full of love and happiness. And they feel unworthy of being parents when they feel emotions like anger and antipathy.
Guilt unfortunately is the worst of all the emotions. The discomfort it causes makes parents swing between extremes and go lax on boundaries. And children find this confusing and frightening and react by misbehaving.
Misbehaviour triggers parents, they are swamped with the very negative emotions that they set out to bury. And this sets off a vicious cycle which ends up damaging relationships.
Since relationships are the secret to resilience – a vicious cycle like this eventually impacts the ability of these parents to manage workplace stressors.
What can help parents feel positive about parenting despite their negative emotions?
1. Using neuroscience to understand emotions and their role in our lives. Both negative and positive.
2. Discover ways to parent despite negative emotions instead of trying to parent without them.
What participants take away from the workshop?
1. How to acknowledge and manage the plethora of emotions that come with parenting
2. How to stay guilt free while being human
3. How to use the power of negative emotions for positive parenting.
Guilt unfortunately is the worst of all the emotions. The discomfort it causes makes parents swing between extremes and go lax on boundaries. And children find this confusing and frightening and react by misbehaving.
Misbehaviour triggers parents, they are swamped with the very negative emotions that they set out to bury. And this sets off a vicious cycle which ends up damaging relationships.
Since relationships are the secret to resilience – a vicious cycle like this eventually impacts the ability of these parents to manage workplace stressors.
What can help parents feel positive about parenting despite their negative emotions?
1. Using neuroscience to understand emotions and their role in our lives. Both negative and positive.
2. Discover ways to parent despite negative emotions instead of trying to parent without them.
What participants take away from the workshop?
1. How to acknowledge and manage the plethora of emotions that come with parenting
2. How to stay guilt free while being human
3. How to use the power of negative emotions for positive parenting.
Most parents spend sleepless nights planning for their child’s success, because they believe that if their children do not succeed, they will fail. They want success for their children because they believe that success is essential for happiness.
Unfortunately, this single-minded obsession with success, and this determination to stay miles away from failure – leads to stress and loss of motivation.
This stress and lack of motivation percolates into every area of life – and takes the joy out of everything in the realm of both work and play.
How can parents help children work towards success without stress?
1. Use neuroscience to understand what programs the brain for success.
2. Discover easy ways to build and strengthen the neural connections that lead to success.
What participants will take away from the workshop?
1. An understanding of what success is.
2. How to focus on the real elements that take children to success
3. What to ignore when working towards success.
Unfortunately, this single-minded obsession with success, and this determination to stay miles away from failure – leads to stress and loss of motivation.
This stress and lack of motivation percolates into every area of life – and takes the joy out of everything in the realm of both work and play.
How can parents help children work towards success without stress?
1. Use neuroscience to understand what programs the brain for success.
2. Discover easy ways to build and strengthen the neural connections that lead to success.
What participants will take away from the workshop?
1. An understanding of what success is.
2. How to focus on the real elements that take children to success
3. What to ignore when working towards success.