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Why join the Parenting Skills Group?

Parenting a child is one of the most challenging, frustrating and rewarding tasks any human will ever undertake. Our children are born into this world entirely dependent on us. Debate continues about whether they are more influenced by their genetic background or their environment - the “Nature vs. Nurture” argument. Researchers agree that the single most important influence on our children in their lifetime is YOU - their parent!!

What topics will the group address?

The group will address many issues including:

• Babies do not come with instruction manuals.
• If you have more than one child, you know that what works with one does not necessarily work with another.
• How do you make decisions regarding your children that are fair and consistent?
• How do you decide what is a fair expectation of them?
• When you make a decision your children don’t like, how do you handle the response of  “I HATE YOU!” or “ YOU DON’T LOVE ME!” ?

The Parenting Skills Group will try to answer these questions and many more.

Being part of this group does NOT mean you are a bad parent; it means you want to be better at the toughest job on earth.

What is the Curriculum?

There are 16 modules:

1. Rethinking your youth’s difficulties
2. Rigging the world so things go well
3. Positive focus & feedback
4. Caretaker credibility & Intervention effectiveness
5. Nonverbal messages in effective discipline
6. Disciplinary purposes & their impact on beneficial outcome
7. Caretaker leverage in eliciting cooperation
8. The magic of good will
9. Structure as an aid in controlling impulses
10. Anger management & conflict management
11. Helping youth cope with troublesome feelings
12. Cultivating feelings of empowerment & emotional safety
13. Logical consequences as a disciplinary strategy
14. Logical consequences II
15. Facilitating positive developmental attainments
16. Strategies that WORSEN problem behavior & take away your power

How long is the group ?

The Parenting Skills Group will be an “open” group. This means that new members can join at any time and stay until they have completed all sixteen modules that will make up the curriculum.

Please contact the Center for more information

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• Advocacy
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• Counseling
• Doula
• Early Learning Center
• GRADS / GED
• Helping Homes
• IMAGE Group
• Parents Support Group
• Parenting Skills Group
• Winners Circle

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