Parent Talk Essentials: How to Talk to Kids about Divorce, Sex, Money, School and Being Responsible
Chick Moorman is a veteran educator who has invested more than 40 years working with children, parents, teachers, and care-givers. More than 300,000 participants have attended his seminars. While writing and lecturing, he offers skill training to help parents and teachers create responsible, caring, confident young people. His seminars provide practical strategies that can be put to use immediately. Whether on the radio, television, or live events, Chick's motivational stories and humor help participants connect with the content and adapt it for their own use.Chick is the founder and director of The Institute for Personal Power. A consulting firm designed to deliver high quality programs to parents and teachers. He is the author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish a Child's Spirit and Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Children in Words That Build Self-Esteem and Encourage Responsibility. His latest book Teaching the Attraction Principle to Children is co-authored with Thomas Haller.At different times in his life, Chick experienced full-time parenting, weekend parenting, and step-parenting. He even single-parented his teen-aged son for several years. After 15 years of traveling nationwide teaching other people how to parent, without warning he became another statistic in the ever-growing number of grandparents who were raising their grandchildren. Chick's life changed overnight, as he became one of only 125,000 men raising children as a single grandfather.Chick is a cancer survivor. During his treatment he successfully used the skills in Teaching The Attraction Principle to Children to bring himself back to health. Now, fully recovered he has set out to teach these life-saving, and live-enhancing skills to children worldwide.Thomas Haller is the chief parenting and relationship correspondent to WNEM TV 5 (CBS affiliate), MY5 TV, and WNEM News Radio 1250AM. He has been the weekly radio personality for over five years on Mid-Michigan's number one radio station WIOG 102.5 FM. Thomas is also the regular guest host of Health Line on WSGW AM790/100.5 FM. He has been a featured guest on over 150 radio shows, including such notable programs as Oprah Radio, Playboy Radio and The World Puja Network.Thomas is a parenting and relationship specialist, the co-author of five highly acclaimed books, a psychotherapist maintaining a private practice (for 20 years) as a child, adolescent and couples therapist, a sex therapist, and a chronic pain counselor.Thomas has a Master of Divinity degree, Master of Social Work degree and a Doctorate in Child and Family Studies, Thomas has extensive training in psychotherapy with children and couples. He is a certified EEG biofeedback technician, an AASECT certified diplomate of sex therapy, and a certified sports counselor.In addition, Thomas is the founder and director of the Healing Minds Institute, a center devoted to teaching others to focus and enhance the health of the mind, body, and spirit. He is president of Personal Power Press, Inc. a small publishing house committed to providing parents and educators with practical material for raising responsible children. Lastly, Thomas and his wife, Valerie, maintain a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, Healing Acres, an equine retirement ranch enabling aged horses to live out their lives in a low stress atmosphere.He is available for workshops, seminars, student assemblies and commencement speeches.