Target audience: Parents with children ages 0 – 6 yrs.

New Classes Starting!

Sundays
February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 4
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in room D208 

*Due to the Superbowl February 5 - class will be changed to 2:00-4:00

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Tuesdays
February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 6
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. in room D208 

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The original Becoming a Love and Logic Parent workshop series was so successful that this program was designed specifically for families with younger children. Class discussion and exercises are designed to focus on this wonderful and challenging stage of childhood development. A heavy dose of humor is included!

Skill Development

• Show young children that whining and arguing do not pay.
• Put an end to misbehavior in public.
• Smooth out mornings and bedtimes.
• Calm sibling bickering and battles.
• Take the battle out of meal times, tooth brushing, bathing, etc.
• Make potty training fun.
• Teach respect, responsibility, and self-discipline.

Benefits

• Meals without battles.
• Children that grow up to be safe, smart, confident teens.
• Specific and simple skills that take the exhaustion out of raising great kids.
• A calmer, gentler, more harmonious and “parent-centered” home.

Curriculum

• Handling misbehavior without breaking a sweat.
• Teaching kids to listen… the first time.
• Avoiding power struggles.
• Limits create happier parents, happier kids and happier families.
• What to do when your kids leave you speechless.

New Classes starting in April!

Tuesdays - 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. in room D206
April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8

Sundays - 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in D206
April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13

Target audience: Parents of children of all ages.

Skill Development

• Creating home environments that stimulate responsibility, resiliency, and academic achievement.
• Preventing misbehavior.
• Avoiding power struggles while setting limits.
• Teaching character and responsibility through modeling and the applications of logical consequences instead of punishment.
• Teaching children healthy problem solving skills.
• Staying calm in stressful parenting situations.
• Helping children become prepared to resist drugs, alcohol, violence, and other dangerous behaviors.

Curriculum

• Four steps for using childhood mistakes/misbehavior to teach responsibility.
• Guidelines for gaining control by sharing control on our terms.
• Why parents who hover and rescue, as well as parents who bark orders, steal opportunities for their children to learn problem solving skills resulting in low self-esteem.
• How to avoid power struggles and idle threats with enforceable limits.
• How to use empathy to help children learn from consequences, instead of feeling resentful and angry.

New Classes Coming Soon!

Target audience: Parents of teens and pre-teens.

Skill Development

• Creating home environments that stimulate responsibility, resiliency, and academic achievement.
• Preventing misbehavior.
• Avoiding power struggles while setting limits.
• Teaching character and responsibility through modeling and the applications of logical consequences instead of punishment.
• Teaching children healthy problem solving skills.
• Staying calm in stressful parenting situations.
• Helping children become prepared to resist drugs, alcohol, violence, and other dangerous behaviors.

Curriculum

• Four steps for using childhood mistakes/misbehavior to teach responsibility.
• Guidelines for giving control on our terms to prevent teens from taking it on their terms.
• Five steps for becoming a Consultant parent who guides his children to own and solve their own problems.
• How to avoid power struggles by describing to your teen what you will do or allow.
• The differences between logical consequences and punishment and why punishment frequently leads to resentment, revenge, avoidance and other problems.