Working Together to Raise Responsible Children
For Parents with School Age Children - For Teachers of School Age Children
The curriculum entitled, Parent/Teacher Education-Working to Raise Responsible Children, is a researched based, interactive program provided by Family Matters Education. The mission of Family Matters is to teach, encourage and support families and those who work with them to promote healthy families and communities. Practical skills are taught, based on proven principals that strengthen, support and empower families.
The Parent/Teacher Education-Working to Raise Responsible Children workshop is a quickly learned and easily adapted family education program, which has proven effective in a variety of communities, and cultures. The program is divided into six sessions, and is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions – building on the positive, healthy habits that exist within a family.
The program is designed for parents, teachers, administrators, and caregivers of school age children to participate. The program addresses adult parent education skills that will improve communication with children, encourage children to cooperation, and increase children’s responsibility within the family and school.
The skills that will be taught bring families closer together, into a network of positive communication that builds balance between relationships, school, and family.
The Family Matters Education program will provide hands-on activities and materials based on the individual needs of the family at any given time or situation. The curriculum will be molded to meet the needs of the families who attend.
What We Teach:
Parent/Teacher Education-Working to Raise Responsible Children is a twelve hour Family Matters Education program presented in a series of six sessions. Each session is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions – building on the positive, healthy habits that exist within a family.
How We Teach:
- Instructor will teach that simple rules and communication skills provide a road map for healthy behavior in a family.
- Instructor will use real life family problems and demonstrate working through these problems to make the skills believable and applicable.
- Instructor will teach and support small group activities to demonstrate how to utilize new skills.
- Instructor will encourage building on What Works. Look for the health. Believe that it is possible to create a new story of our lives together.
- Instructor will provide Parent/Teacher Education-Working to Raise Responsible Children workbooks for each participant that includes all handouts, activities, and materials for supporting interactive learning.
The Outcomes:
Participants will learn:
- Three basic skills: speak, listen and cooperate.
- Four skills to help children deal with feelings.
- Five causes of misbehavior in children.
- Eight skills to engage a child’s cooperation.
- Seven options instead of punishment.
- Six steps to solving problems.
- Six skills to encourage autonomy and self-reliance.
- Four tools to build self-esteem.
Each family will learn:
- Ways to communicate and encourage one another.
- How to build on the strengths in their family.
- Important structure and functions of the family.
- What it means to be a healthy family.
- Roadblocks to family communication.
- Strategies for effective parent-child communication.
Parents will learn:
- Differences between punishment and discipline.
- Tools for effective discipline.
- How to make statements that are positive and specific.
- Actions that help parents stay in charge.
- Alternatives to physical punishment.
- Ways to develop self esteem in children.
- Ways to show love to their children.
- Ways to encourage and support their children.
- Ways to allow children to become self-reliant and responsible.
The Benefits:
A road map to health for families.
Effective prevention: skills and patterns which avoid the development of problems.
Parents and children who can talk and listen to each other and work out problems together.
Parents who have the skills to manage and nurture their children.
Parents who understand that mistakes and problems are a part of growing up and serve as opportunities to teach children strong life lessons, rather than punish them.
Topics:
Class #1: Families and Strong Communication
A look at the structure and functions of the family and ways to strengthen family communication.
A. Goal parents have for their children
B. Structure and functions of the family
C. The healthy family
D. Family communication
E. Roadblocks to family communication
F. Strategies for effective parent-child communication
Class #2: Dealing with Children’s Feelings
Simple effective tools to defuse children’s frustration and anger. A look at empathetic responses that accept children’s feelings and help to limit poor behavior.
A. Expressing emotions
B. Parenting styles
C. Effects of various parenting styles on children
D. Skills to help children deal with their feelings
Class #3: Engaging Cooperation
A look at common, ineffective methods used by adults to get children to cooperate.
Respectful approaches to useable, effective tools to encourage children to cooperate.
A. Causes of misbehavior in children
B. Barriers to cooperation
C. Celebrate rather than reward
D. Skills to engage a child’s cooperation
Class #4: Alternatives To Punishment
A distinct look at the differences between, punishment, discipline and natural consequences. Focusing on positive alternatives to the more common, negative, ways of punishing children. A class filled with suggestions and skills to help children learn how to make amends, be accountable and learn from their mistakes or problems.
A. A look at punishment
B. Differences between punishment and discipline
C. Consequences
D. Skills to use instead of punishment
Class #5: Encouraging Autonomy
Class focus is on the importance of parents helping children to trust themselves to make good choices and become separate, responsible, competent and respected people.
A. Importance of self-reliance and autonomy
B. How parents help their children to become self-reliant
C. Skills to encourage autonomy
Class #6: Praise and Self-Esteem
Class explores ways in which parents can build self-esteem and also elements that damage self-esteem. Focus is placed on how self-esteem affects behavior. Class provides
useable, new skills which enable parents to learn about the power of descriptive praise.
A. Importance of positive self-esteem
B. How parents help to build self-esteem
C. Tools to build self-esteem
Through small group activities and discussions parents are given an opportunity to share ideas, support each other and gain knowledge and confidence. Parents become their own problem solvers. Class dynamics allow participants to gain insight and awareness into the complex task and many rewards of raising children.
- Workshop is 6 weeks with a total of 12 hours of education (once a week for 6 consecutive weeks)
- Free Childcare is Provided with a Reservation
Scheduled Workshops...
At this time, no workshops are scheduled. Please contact us if you would like to schedule this workshop.
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