Parenting Class: 4-Week Coaching Program: Parenting Essentials for Parents with Young Children
Facilitator: Jennifer Watanabe/ jennifer@resourcesforparentning.com
Dates and Times: October 7 - 28, 2024 / 4 Mondays plus group coaching
Location: Online Zoom - Redmond, WA and USA
Cost: $250
Parenting Class Description:
Time is of the essence.
You wish your child had better behavior and nothing you do seems to be working. Perhaps you lie awake at night worrying about your relationship with your child. You see the look in your child's eyes.
This 4-week coaching program will provide you with encouraging, caring, and research-based ways for you to help your child with their behavior. The program consists of a weekly presentation. There will also be several group coaching sessions each week. This program focuses on being nurturing while guiding future behavior in a positive, relationship building way.
Here are the coaching topics: Compatibility in the family, cooperation – help your child "listen," communication, and conflict resolution.
You will explore new ways to:
Increase your family's compatibility
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.
Increase your child's cooperation
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.
Improve your family's 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.
Reduce conflict
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.
This coaching 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 solve their parenting problems. This is why group coaching works so well.
Each session 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.
Why such a dedicated program? This is more than just a parenting class. This program includes several coaching opportunities each week. With coaching you will get encouragement and guidance as you begin to use what you have learned.
You will receive the Positive Discipline Workbook e-version. This workbook is included in the registration fee.
Private one-to-one parent coaching is also available.
This program 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.
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