Meet Sharon Silver
Founder and Director of Proactive Parenting
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My Story
I had my first child when I was 21; I thought I had it all together. I yelled, screamed and punished and I secretly felt awful afterwards. I had achieved my immediate goal of stopping the unwanted behavior, but at what cost? One day my 3 yr. old backed away from me, assuming I was going to spank him. I was crushed. I had replaced my beautiful child’s trust in me with fear. I never spanked again.
But now I had a problem. What should I do to change behavior? How am I supposed to show my authority without yelling, punishing or spanking?
Then a friend suggested I take a parenting class. My response was, “Aren’t parenting classes for parents with bad kids who have really big problems?”
Wow, was I wrong!
I found exactly what I was looking for; the words and phrases that encouraged listening without having to yell first! I didn’t even know there was a difference between reacting and responding until I took that class.
What I found amazed me. I found ways to teach my children about their behavior that were respectful and firm. Words that allow me to respond not react. Responding began creating what I had been looking for, a way to show my authority and change behavior without punishing, yelling and spanking. And because I wasn’t yelling 24/7 the type of parent/child relationship I wanted began to surface. I wasn’t perfect; neither were my kids. But the everyday situations that came up were handled firmly and respectfully and didn’t pull us apart as a family. I teach parenting so I can share this knowledge with everyone!
“Your tips were wonderful, delivered with such warmth, wit and earthiness.”
*Linda Obele, President, MOMS Club Scottsdale NW*
My Bio
Sharon Silver is a mom, an educator and a powerful speaker. Her sense of humor and teaching style make her easy to listen to and creates a trustworthy environment for learning. Her mission has always been to create programs that help parents focus on what else can be done instead of going straight to punishment. Proactive Parenting is the result of that mission.
With an education in Parenting and Early Childhood Development, four certifications as a Parent Educator, and practical experience as the mother of two young adults, there’s very little she hasn’t seen. Sharon has worked in Corporate America, for small and large businesses and owned her own Comedy club, so she understand the pressure parents face each day to balance all they have on their plates.
Sharon does telephone-seminars for working parents during the lunch break, gives speeches for service organizations, and travels to different cities around the country giving seminars. Over the last 17 years, parents, public and private school teachers, day-care directors and providers, corporations and service groups have all benefited from the programs she teaches about how to use a balanced, real-life approach when disciplining and teaching children.
Sharon’s commitment to children and families resulted in her appearance on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show called “Hitting, Spanking, Smacking: Should it happen to your child?” She has been trained in the work of Rudolf Dreikurs and The Cline/Fay Institute, and has studied the work Ginott, Faber/Mazlish, Brazelton, and Ames/Ilg. She has used her years of research, training and teaching to create Proactive Parenting and all the seminars we offer.
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"Discipline expresses a parent's boundaries with the emotional volume turned down."
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