Laurie Orloff lives in Dallas with her husband and sons. She is a speaker, author and columnist on Joyful Parenting. She teaches violin and viola and plays in several orchestras in Texas and Arkansas. Laurie got her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Ball State University in German and Music. She also nearly completed (close, but no cigar!) a Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Musicology and Viola Performance.
She got two parenting certificates handed to her with the birth of her boys in 1990 and 1996 and has since been trying to figure out how to be easy going, light-hearted and stress-free. She has worked so hard at these that she feels it is most cost effective to share what she has successfully tested out and learned.
Currently, Laurie produces the PTSA newsletter for the Dallas Performing Arts School where her older son studies and is a member of AATH and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC.)
Her next book, How to Handle Your Cranky and Stressed Out parents: A Teen Survival Guide is coming out this February
FOR PARENTS:
- Co-parenting with peace
- Divorce with a happy ending
- Guiltless parenting
- How not to be embarrassed by our children (and vice versa)
- Jumbo shrimp/perfect parenting: discussing oxymorons
- Natural childcare and good nutrition
- Parenting with humor: becoming a "Stand Up" parent
- Putting the fun into "dysFUNctional" families
- Sex, drugs, rock and roll: now it's our kid's turn
- Toilet training your inner child
- Victimless parenting
- What our children are REALLY Thinking
- What to do when saying "No" loudly doesn't work anymore
FOR TEENS:
- Being happy in THIS world?
- Get a grip, dad - I'm not you, sports is lame!
- How to deal with your cranky and stressed-out parents
- My stepmother is Satan's spawn
- Dealing with drug use
- You say 'gay' like it's a bad thing, mom
Workshops, Seminars, Lectures, Magic Wands (made out of crystal/amethyst/multi colored marbles made to order and gold colored wire), small string ensembles (Dallas/Ft. Worth area)
Gold Member since 2002