At Sensible Parenting™, we provide educational courses, workshops, lectures. coaching, and tips that support relationships between you (parents, grandparents, childcare workers and anyone else who relates to children) and your children (from birth through adulthood.). These relationships are often the single most important factor in your child’s development and may directly effect your day-to-day feeling of well being.

Our actions today as parents (our parenting styles and methods we use) influence not only our current parent-child relationships; they also influence the whole of the future lives of our children, their future relationships in life and our future relationships with our children.

Slight changes in parenting styles and techniques can sometimes yield big improvements in those relationships.

• Do you want more closeness and better communications in your family?
• Do you want less stress, more enjoyment and more free time?
• Have you ever wondered (or asked your child,) “What were you thinking!!!”

Parenting is O.J.T. (On the Job Training) for most, if not all of us. If we had great parents for role models, we may try to imitate them. If we took part in raising our younger siblings, we may have even had a taste of “parenting.”

However, some of us didn’t have great role models or siblings to practice upon. Even those of us who had great parents, and helped in the raising of our siblings, discover that every child is unique, with unique needs. Our children may need different things from us as parents, than we did (years ago) when we were learning about parenting from our parents.

At Sensible Parenting, we provide practical, effective, loving techniques and skills to reduce the disparity between your good intentions and goals as parents, and the gaps that may exist in the actual developmental accomplishments of your children.  

We do not believe there are bad children, or bad parents. We do believe that some children have unique needs for which parents (and others whom interact in our children's lives) may not have the tools, techniques and skills to address most effectively.

We believe that all misbehavior is simply your child trying to communicate something to you.  So we teach you skills to help you identify your child’s mistaken goals and beliefs about life, so that you can take appropriate corrective actions. 

What we teach are new/additional parenting skills and techniques that will help you interact in an even more supportive way to help your children address their developmental challenges from infancy to young adult.   

We provide you with skills for improving communications and increasing closeness between you and your child and within your family as a whole. We teach methods and techniques to help your child learn responsibility, independence, respect for self and others and to have healthy self-esteem.

You will also learn effective, practical, and loving techniques that will motivate and discipline your children without punishment and rewards-based (carrot and stick) parenting tools.  In class you will see examples and participate in exercises to help you understand and implement the new tools and techniques.

We provide the “Redirecting Children's Behavior™ (RCB™)" course and 25 additional workshops that are focused upon family life and child developmental needs. The RCB course is strongly influenced by the works of Rudolf Dreikurs, MD. , co-author of the highly acclaimed books "Children: The Challenge", and “Discipline without Tears”, and author of “The Challenge of Parenthood.”  (These are wonderful resources for parents with children of any age or developmental level.)

You will learn new skills and techniques to:

1. Create more closeness and better communications within your family!
   
2. Have more confidence as a parent, enjoy less stress, and have more fun with your children
   
3. Learn what your children are thinking when they misbehave, and how to redirect misbehavior in an effective and loving way.
   
4. Have more free time for yourself!

You will get this in just five weeks (one three hour session each week) when you attend the Sensible Parenting RCB course! (Objectives By Week)

After the first week, at the beginning of each class we review and discuss your experiences and answer any questions you have from implementing the new techniques at home over the previous week. We help you fine tune your new skills.

If you have been wishing you knew something more to help raise your children with less stress, with more enjoyment for yourself, your spouse, and for your children, then RCB may be just right for you.

RCB education and training will give you effective, loving and practical parenting techniques, skills, and tips that really work.

Take advantage of this great opportunity to make positive changes in the lives of your family!

Enroll Today!

Sensible Parenting is proud
to be affiliated with the

International Network for Children
and Families™ (INCAF™)

Testimonials

What People Say About RCB...

"RCB is based on some of the finest and most well respected work in all of psychology.  There is no greater gift that a parent might give to their child than this kind of training... your children and you are worth it!" Mark Shafer, Psychologist

"Redirecting Children's Behavior™ offers a lot of workable solutions to problems parents are facing" Tom Watkins, East Pasco County Association for Children Under Six

"I have five children from 17 to 2 years old.  The course helped me personally and professionally.  I have used the training to develop a school program for eighth graders to help improve communication between parents and children." Judy Brooks, Social Worker - Gulf Middle School

...Ever have one of those days when all you do is nag your kids? Ever have one of those weeks? What about one of those months? Are you looking down the road toward a lifetime of unproductive nagging? Sometimes it seemed like I was, and not knowing what to do but knowing for sure that our family — my husband and two daughters, ages 8 and 11 — needed a change was one of the reasons I recently found myself in a five-week course called “Redirecting Children’s Behavior” (RCB)...

Based on the 1964 classic Children: the Challenge by Rudolf Dreikurs (Plume), RCB was created by educator Kathryn Kvols in order to give Dreikurs’ theories practical application. Central to the course is the basic assumption that children misbehave because they are trying to tell us something..

Taking the RCB course helped me to see my children in a light of acceptance and love without conditions, and to encourage rather than discourage them. I know that the example I set for them now is the first step toward making the wider world a better place... from "Redirecting Children’s Behavior," By Ashley Crownover, Parent World Magazine, June 2003

"Children are our second chance to have a great
parent-child relationship." by Laura Schlessinger

INCAF Vision Statement

Every child will have a home where they are loved unconditionally, where their spirit is honored and nurtured,and where they are taught the power of love.

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