The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long
before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
~Robert Brault

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

- Theodore Roosevelt

RCB Courses: Advanced Parenting Skills

The Five Week Course:

Redirecting

Children's

Behavior™

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The parenting course, "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 Redirecting Children's Behavior (RCB™) instructors are certified by INCAF.

Who can benefit from this course:

  • Parents expecting or having children of any age, from toddlers to teens
  • Step-Parents, Grandparents, aunts and uncles, babysitters
  • Teachers, Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers, Pediatricians, or anyone who relates to children.

In our fast-paced society, adults and children spend much of their time in separate environments. We all want to make the most of the time we have together, however, it can become difficult for us to give of ourselves or get what we want from our relationships.

What you can gain from this course:

  • Eliminate arguing, scolding and yelling and threatening
  • Feel positive about your parenting skills
  • Create more time for yourself
  • Skills to promote agreement instead of fighting
  • Get on the same “parenting page” with your spouse

What your children will gain from this course:

  • Responsibility and initiative
  • Self-control and self-reliance
  • Good decision making skills
  • Resistance to peer pressure
  • Cooperation skills and develop successful attitudes

The RCB Course

Five weekly classes are held for a total of 15 hours of instructor-lead classroom instruction. Each week there is one three hour class. This allows adequate time to practice and master the concepts.  The classes begin with a review of previous week's homework assignments. We will review your results and effectiveness in application of your new skills and provide feedback for improvement if needed. Weekly goals are set by each participant. Challenges and successes are shared in a warm supportive environment.

During each class there are several opportunities for roll-playing and student participation. Through these exercises, you will experience both the parenting perspective and the perspective of children so that you may understand why some parenting tools work better than others for different situations. You will also learn throughout the course why, what works for one child, may not work as well for another child.   

You will be better able to identify the mistaken goals of children and understand their misbehavior is only an attempt to communicate to you that they do not feel they are getting one or more of their essential needs met.

With the new concepts, skills and techinques you will learn, you will be better enabled to raise happier and healthier children.  You and your children may also feel better understood, and valued. 

Children may be more responsible, more respectful, self-reliant, self-disciplined, and confident that they are loved and appreciated.  There may be great trust and respect of each member of the family.

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.

Course Objectives:

  • More confident, happier parents
  • More responsible children
  • More cooperative children
  • Children with greater self-esteem
  • Children with greater self-control
  • Children who promote agreement instead of fighting
  • Children who feel loved and understood
  • Children who seek appropriate behavior goals
  • A family that communicates and expresses feelings in a healthy, productive manner
  • Encouraged families who support each other More >>

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Course Objectives (by Week)

Session 1

  • Prevent sibling and peer rivalry
  • Replace fighting with negotiation and co-operation
  • Teach children to resolve their own conflicts
  • Understand a child's behavior and how it relates to birth order


Session 2



  • Teach children respect and responsibility
  • Creating a self-motivated child
  • Explore how parenting methods affect children
  • Building a child's self-confidence


Session 3



  • Understanding why a child misbehaves
  • Learn specific techniques that work for each goal of misbehavior
  • Offer choices so that your child can make healthy decisions


Session 4



  • Teach self-control
  • Find ways to hold children accountable for their actions
  • Application of natural and logical consequences to behavior


Session 5



  • How to win the other parent's cooperation
  • Planning for family meetings
  • Opening communications between all family members
  • Graduation

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