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Category: Discipline
Age range: all ages
No matter how understanding and patient parents may be, children's behavior can be very difficult to deal with. This 2-part workshop explores why children engage in frustrating behaviors and offers parents specific positive discipline strategies to use in response to behaviors such as children’s teasing, hitting, whining and other challenging behaviors. Parents also focus on communicating clear and appropriate expectations to their children.
Things Kids Do That Drive Us Nuts: Positive Approaches to Discipline consists of two parts:
- Things Kids Do That Drive Us Nuts: Understanding Motivation and Behavior
- Positive Approaches to Discipline: Expanding Your Repertoire
1. Things Kids Do That Drive Us Nuts: Understanding Motivation and Behavior
No matter how understanding and patient parents may be, children's behavior can be very difficult to deal with. This workshop explores why children engage in such frustrating behaviors as dawdling in the morning or refusing to do their homework, and introduces some effective ways of responding. Participants will leave this workshop with specific strategies to help them communicate with their children and change behavior.
2. Positive Approaches to Discipline: Expanding Your Repertoire
Discipline is an ongoing parenting issue. This session will focus on alternatives to yelling and punishing, and offer positive discipline strategies that parents can use in responding to children's teasing, hitting, whining and other challenging behavior.
Participants will leave this workshop with specific strategies to try and with practice in how to communicate their expectations to their children.
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