Parenting Programs
Bringing Out the Best
The Bringing Out the Best series centers on helping parents find ways to enable their children to thrive. When parents love and accept their child unconditionally, they can better teach responsible behavior and the skills necessary to reach worthy goals. Parents will learn strategies necessary for setting appropriate expectations, supplying structure, effectively setting limits, and instilling values.
Session One
Introduction to Bringing Out the Best
In this introductory session, parents will learn what it means to bring out the best in their children and find examples of people who can motivate effectively through acceptance and affection. Parents will then develop and review strategies that can positively impact their children and bring out their best.
Session Two
Temperamental Differences
This session will help parents understand the connection between temperament and effective parenting strategies in order to discover ways to effectively respond to difficult behavior. Parents will review and define temperament and its characteristics as well as explore the “goodness of fit” between themselves and their particular child.
Session Three
The Value of Self-Esteem
Parents will learn the function, importance, and limits of self-esteem and how social acceptance impacts its development. Parents will explore how to recognize when self-esteem is too high or too low and what they can do to support healthy self-esteem in their children.
Session Four
Self-Control: Beyond Self-Esteem
Parents will explore the impact of self-control on healthy child development and review the benefits of delayed gratification. In order for children to reach goals, parents need effective strategies to help them identify worthy, reasonable goals and develop the ability to manage “hot” emotions with “cool” thinking and strategies.
Session Five
The Benefits of Failure
Failure is as inevitable as it is universal. Yet most people are challenged to manage the emotional and spiritual toll that result, and parents can struggle with navigating their children through such difficult situations. However, failure can be a powerful learning tool that impacts future success and effort. Parents will learn the impediments to achievement and social-emotional costs of avoiding failure and ways to help their children build resiliency to successfully manage setbacks.
