Parenting Class: Caring for Working Parents with Young Children
Facilitator: Jennifer Watanabe/ jennifer@resourcesforparentning.com
Dates and Times:
09/04/2024 - 10/23/2024
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Online Zoom - Redmond, WA and USA
Cost: $160
Parenting Class Description:
7 Essential Elements for Effective and Encouraging Parenting
8-week Group Coaching for Busy Working Parents of Young Children
Time is of the essence. Your child is growing up so fast. You want your family life to get better now.
Have you been wondering how to:
*** Make parenting easier?
*** Help your child have better behavior?
*** Help your child do better at school and childcare?
This 8-week coaching program will provide you with research-based ways that will help you help your child have better behavior and with ways to help you feel better about being a parent.
The seven coaching topics are listed below. You will explore new ways to:
*** CARING FOR YOU FIRST
Build your reserves physically and emotionally.
Reduce stress and simplify family life.
Gain more parenting skills.
Get ready to manage difficult parenting moments.
Be more responsive, less reactive.
Decide to be encouraging.
Seek encouragement and support for yourself.
*** CARING FOR YOUR CHILD
Manage your child's childcare.
Ensure your child's success at school.
Support your child's friendship development: becoming a friend, being a friend.
Support your child's emotional development: manage temper tantrums and the big emotions.
*** COMPATIBILITY IN THE FAMILY
Reduce conflict due to personality differences.
Identify the different temperaments in the family:
Manage the differences. Examples: Introvert or extrovert, high or low energy, high or low intensity of emotions.
*** COOPERATION – HELP YOUR CHILD "LISTEN"
Recognize the power of the word "listen."
Use the Positive Discipline approach which is about being kind and supportive while teaching and guiding the child to do
better "next time." In positive parenting discipline means to teach.
Help your child be motivated from "within" to be cooperative, not to have your child be obedient because they are afraid.
Use your child's misbehaviors as teachable moments.
Teach with encouragement.
*** COMMUNICATION
Use encouraging words and phrases that don't blame or shame.
Be sure the message of love gets through.
Give unconditional love messages: "I love you, AND I need you to do this or that..."
Listen to your child about their feelings and their experiences.
Speak in a calm manner, as much as is possible.
*** CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Tap into your child's desire to have a more peace in the family.
Use the Positive Discipline conflict resolution approach.
Teach your child how to be respectful while working on a discipline issue.
*** CREATING AND MAINTAINING GOODWILL IN THE FAMILY
Have fun as a family.
Increase the feeling for everyone that it feels good to be in your family.
Ensure your child grows up in a happy, healthy family.
The program consists of a presentation, then time for your questions and group coaching. This format allows for two-way communication. Reading an article or social media post or watching a video are forms of one-way communication. You cannot discuss or ask questions with one-way communication.
Groups are effective. It always helps to hear that other parents have similar problems and to hear how other parents can solve their parenting problems. This is why group coaching works so well.
Each of the eight coaching sessions will conveniently meet on Zoom. You can choose to be on or off camera. You don't have to get dressed up. These sessions will be live, not pre-recorded.
These coaching sessions will be facilitated by Jennifer Watanabe, a Child Behavior Consultant and Parent Coach who helps parents help their children. For 24 years she was a parent education instructor for Bellevue College in Washington state. She taught hundreds of positive parenting classes to hundreds of parents how to help their children.
She teaches and coaches in a respectful, non-judgmental, and encouraging way. She is a Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educator and a Certified Parent Coach. Private one-to-one parent coaching is also available.
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