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Robyn Silverman
Child & Teen Development Specialist, Parenting Expert, Best-Selling Author of How to Talk to Kids about Anything
Robyn Silverman
Child & Teen Development Specialist, Parenting Expert, Best-Selling Author of How to Talk to Kids about Anything
Biography
Child and Teen Development Specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, helps key adults from parents, and educators to coaches and youth-focused companies raise powerful kids who thrive in today’s world. She provides tips and scripts to build kids’ character, confidence, and competence while laying the groundwork for sorely needed connection, communication, and skill development. Known as “The Conversation Doc,” she has been pegged as a combination between “Jiminy Cricket, Mr. Rogers, and ChatGPT,” with a “magic to simplify the most complex topics” so that audiences always leave buzzing with tangible take-aways. She is a gifted storyteller, making her speaking style accessible, warm, authentic, and memorable—she is the knowledgeable best friend everyone has been looking for to help them find their own voice when they are tongue-tied.
Dr. Robyn is the host of the How to Talk to Kids about Anything podcast [over 3 million downloads to date] where she, while interviewing her amazing guests, helps to simplify tough topics from ones on big feelings, failure, and friendship to those on death, divorce, diversity, sex, and money. Her national bestseller, also entitled How to Talk to Kids about Anything, takes parents and teachers through the whole spectrum of kids’ curious questions and provides straightforward, science-backed answers so that kids can get age-appropriate information straight from their trusted sources. Named a “must-have” “starred review” by Library Journal, it’s currently being translated into 12 languages and has been commissioned for an audio version.
Dr. Robyn is the founder and creator of Powerful Words Character Development, a worldwide character education program that helps educators and coaches inspire kids to become great citizens of their households, schools, teams, communities, and world. She provides scripts so that teachers and coaches can talk to kids about everything from courage and focus to kindness and mental-strength.
An in-demand speaker and expert for media outlets such as Today Show, Good Morning America and the New York Times, Dr. Robyn lives in North Carolina with her husband, two children and rescue dog.
Speaker Videos
How to Talk to Kids about Anything: Tips & Scripts to Make Tough Conversations Easier
Speaking Reel
Keynote Documentary
Understanding and Improving Body Image in Girls
Shaping the Women of Tomorrow
An Analysis on Bullying
Speech Topics
How to Talk to Kids about Anything: Tips & Scripts to Make Tough Conversations Easier
We’ve got to get talking. Building a bridge to good communication and connection with kids starts early and continues throughout the teen years. Still, studies find that while kids want to talk to trusted adults about complicated and touchy subjects, many parents, teachers, and coaches don’t know where to begin or what to say—so they put it off or don’t say anything at all. This backfires, spiking risky behavior and allowing peers, influencers, or strangers to be the ones who educate our children—and we may not like what they have to say. Child Development Specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, is The Conversation Doc. In this presentation, she takes parents and those who work with children through a whole spectrum strategies and scripts to prepare them for life's most challenging conversations. From asking powerful questions and listening on all levels to her signature “language swaps” and more, this dynamic storyteller and the bestselling author of How to Talk to Kids about Anything, will equip attendees with key takeaways they’ve always wanted but didn’t know how to access. Fully customizable to parents, educators, administrators, coaches and community members, Dr. Robyn goes where you need her to- unpacking everything from failure, feelings and friendship to self-esteem, sex and more. This powerful presentation is a favorite- with an expert whose been there, gets it, and gives it all-- as a recent audience member inquired aloud when it was over, “can we talk every night?”
Progress Over Perfect: Combat Perfectionistic Culture & Create Young Positive Risk-Takers
Studies show that our kids are feeling more pressure to succeed and become more “flawlessly perfect,” “effortlessly accomplished,” and “notably high-achieving” than ever. This creates, what Child Development Specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, calls “Failure Fallback,” where kids worry so much about failing that they either stop trying or “become so obsessed with grades and accolades that their mental health—body—or both-- fail instead.” In this powerful presentation, the best-selling author of How to Talk to Kids about Anything unpacks how trusted adults can talk to kids about (1) combating perfectionistic culture, (2) embracing progress over perfect and (3) becoming positive risk-takers in various areas of their lives. Fully customizable for parents, educators, coaches, or youth-centered organizations/businesses, this speaker is happy to meet with you to ensure your goals are met and your event is a success. With her signature storytelling, specific conversation starters, and tactical take-aways, Dr. Robyn leaves the audience equipped to make important changes that day which will have a striking impact on children and teens for a lifetime.
Mentally Strong Kids: Tough Talks that Bolster Mental Strength in Children & Teens
It’s time for a shift. Instead of focusing on grades and accolades at a time when kids feel disconnected and over-stressed, we need to ask, “How is the mental health of our children and students?” Rising from her own experience with being bullied in elementary school and reinforced by her extensive research, Child Development Specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, unpacks three critical conversations that we must have with kids today: (1) Looking for the lessons in loss, mistakes and failure, (2) Uprooting the roots of “not enough” while redefining a child’s “I am,” and (3) Finding a child’s strengths in a world of fault-finders. With her signature storytelling style and her often-quoted “language swaps,” this speaker both educates and entertains. Customizable for parents, teachers, coaches, youth-centered businesses/organizations or other key adults who work with kids, your audience members will leave with tangible take-aways that they can apply immediately at home, in school, at the sports arena, or anywhere they want to see kids truly thrive.
The New Three Rs: Repackage Labels, Remove Limits, Relocate Praise to Strengthen Students
What really leads students to stretch beyond their comfort zones and become strong, powerful learners? In this presentation, Dr. Robyn homes in on what she calls the “New 3 Rs” to strengthen students from the inside out: (1) Repackaging confining and defining labels, (2) Removing bestowed limitations, and (3) Reconsidering the way we praise kids and teens. Backed with science and thrust forward with stories, strategies and scripts, audience members leave with a treasure trove of take-aways in true, “Dr. Robyn” style. From her revised “good job note” (that is always a favorite) to her “mindset makers,” “cycle breakers,” and “limit shakers,” this one will be talked about, quoted, and ultimately, sown in to the way your educators, coaches and staff work with children and teens.
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