Are you dealing with:
Tantrums
Defiance
Morning/bedtime struggles
Power struggles
Sibling fights
Not following rules
Talking back
Battles of homework and screen time
Being a parent is both the most rewarding and challenging job you will ever have. How nice it would be if each unique child entered this world with a user manual to help parents navigate the challenges of parenting. Unfortunately, they don’t come with instructions. Parenting is a TOUGH job. You knew it wasn't going to be easy, but you had no idea it was going to be this hard. Many parents might find it embarrassing to admit their parenting struggles out loud. Do you find yourself in over your head with the challenges that parenting has presented for you? Are you trying to figure out how you got here with no real idea or plan on how to make things better? Has your child’s behavior gotten so extreme that the entire family is being affected by it and it is dictating every aspect of your lives? Have you spent countless hours reading books, listening to podcasts, and doing research to try to find a roadmap to get back on track only to find every strategy or tactic you try is met with more defiance and resistance? Are you completely overwhelmed and exhausted and find yourself getting triggered and overreacting to your child’s behaviors only to feel terrible later before the cycle repeats itself day after day? If so, our parenting courses are for you! Whether you need a basic overview and a set of tools to navigate parenting or you have a strong-willed or defiant child and are locked into daily power struggles and need help navigating those challenges, we have a course for you!
Parenting with Purpose is a general parenting class that teaches you specific tools on how to better parent your children and co-parent children in a divorced or blended family. Every parent, even the most competent parents, can benefit from extra help in improving their parenting skills. This class is a broad overview of the many aspects of parenting and gives you the tools you need to understand and navigate the basics of parenting. This parenting course will give you knowledge and tools in the following areas:
Parent’s rights and responsibilities
Common parenting mistakes
Temperament and parenting
Parenting styles and loving your children
Parenting a child with Special Needs
Being a good role model
Assertive communication for parents
Stress management for parents
Empathy training for parents and children
General principles of discipline
Boundary and limit setting
Dealing with sibling rivalry
Basic rules for divorcing parents
Co-parenting teamwork/challenges
Step-family dynamics
Parenting Your Strong-Willed Child is a more specific parenting course that addresses challenges unique to parenting and raising strong-willed children. This parenting class takes a deeper dive into some of the components of Parenting with Purpose. This class is for parents struggling to parent a strong-willed child and feeling like they are spinning their wheels, completely overwhelmed and exhausted, and not sure what to do about it. You feel like you have tried everything and nothing works. Look no further, this course is for you! We will take a deeper look at your parenting styles and the temperament of you and your child, and identify ways to set boundaries and limits, give clear and firm messages to your child and match your actions to your words to remove the daily power struggles. This parenting course will give you deeper understanding and tools in the following areas:
Understanding your child’s temperament
Understanding your temperament
Understanding your parenting style and how it matches your child’s temperament
Learn how strong-willed children learn rules
Learn effective ways to teach your rules
How to match your words with your actions
How to remove power struggles
How to set firm limits with respect and empathy
Effective Discipline Strategies
How to communicate effectively
Understanding your protective parts and your child’s protective parts and how they react to each other
Meet Our Instructor: Summer McGowan, is a licensed professional counselor and certified parent instructor. She has worked in public education for 18 years as a teacher, reading coach, special education process coordinator, elementary counselor, and high school counselor, and years of experience with children of all ages and extreme behaviors. She has worked with children in her private practice for three years helping them to understand their big emotions and behaviors and learn to manage them. She has worked with parents and families to help them learn to navigate parenting and bring harmony back to their families. Summer is also a trained Level 1 Internal Family Systems therapist.
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