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Redirecting Children's Behavior™
(Topics and Objectives)

The Redirecting Children's Behavior™ (RCB™) Parenting Course:
Effective strategies for today's adult/child relationship can make parenting a lot more fun.  You can have the kind of relationship with your children you have dreamed of, and you can help them develop skills to become loving, motivated and successful adults.

Effective Strategies

The purpose of this course is to teach parents, professionals and anyone else who relates to children...the skills that create confident, responsible, loving, secure, drug-free and happy children.

RCB™ will help you to become a more positive, more confident and effective parent, or better at dealing with children through your work. Parents, grandparents, teachers, childcare workers*, virtually anyone who relates to children may benefit from this course.  The value and benefits to your family gained from taking a SensibleParenting.com RCB course last a lifetime **.

Redirecting Children's Behavior™ is strongly influenced by the work of Rudolf Dreikurs, MD., author of the highly acclaimed book "Children: The Challenge".  The course was developed by Kathryn Kvols author of the book "Redirecting Children's Behavior" and founder of the International Network for Children and Families ( INCAF.) All of Sensible Parenting's "Redirecting Children's Behavior" instructors are certified by INCAF.

What you will learn:

  • Factors influencing a child’s behaviors
    • Birth order
    • Sibling rivalry/dethronement and fighting
    • Firm & kind parental response
  • Discipline vs. Punishment
  • Debits and credits (emotional bank
    accounts)
  • Taking care of yourself
  • The encouragement perspective
  • Encouragement vs. Praise
  • Changing our messages
  • Autocratic vs. Democratic methods
  • Setting limits
  •  How were you parented?
  • Building self-esteem
  • Understanding misbehavior
  • Diagnosis and Understanding the four goals
    • Goal of attention
    • Goal of power
    • Goal of revenge
    • Goal of avoidance/ inadequacy
  • Asking for what you want
  • Parenting with the end in mind
  • Paradigm shifts
  • Seeing life from our child’s perspective
  • Genuine Encounter Moments (GEMs)
  • Responding instead of Reacting
  • Handling feelings
  • Resolving conflicts
  • Detachment
  • Results without punishment

    1. Self-calming
    2. “I” messages
    3. Let them do make-up’s
    4. Conflict resolution
    5. Natural consequences
    6. Logical consequences
  • Replacing Punishment with Consequences
  • Encouragement feast
  • Family meeting
  • Promoting agreement with couples
  • More….
Objectives:  Learn parenting skills promoting:
  1. Cooperative children
  2. Creating agreements instead of fighting
  3. Strong self-esteem
  4. Appropriate behavior goals
  5. Communication and expressing feelings in a healthy, productive manner
  6. Families who support each other 

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