Parent Classes

Stepping Up: For parents of “challenging” teenagers. Class focuses on redirecting crisis and potential crisis situations.  

 Topics include:

• Review of Adolescence
• Understanding Yourself & Your Teenager (parenting styles)
• Changing Your Response to Your Teen & Communicating Respect & Encouragement (2 lessons)
• Communication
• Encouraging Cooperation & Problem Solving
• Using Consequences to Build Responsibility
• Follow Through With Consequences
• Mission & Values; Pulling it All Together

Positive Parenting: For parents of younger children (pre-teen) and early elementary school. Parenting and family development will be the focus. 

Topics include:   

• Discipline & Punishment (The differences - Discipline means “to teach”
• Limits (setting limits, love & limits go hand-in-hand)
• Consequences (natural and logical consequences)
• Listening (non-listening actions, responding with understanding)
•  Anger (a natural reaction, helping a child deal with anger, responding in a positive way)
• Challenging Behaviors (strategies to help children understand boundaries)
• Parenting Tools (parenting tools to nurture and teach; prevention strategies)
•  Attention (Catch your child being good, focus on the positive behaviors)
• Respect (Respect is taught by example)
• Responsibility (teaching responsibility, a blend of independence and consideration)
• Monitoring (knowing at all times where your child is)
• Siblings (Sibling rivalry is natural, but so is sibling support, affection and friendship) 

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