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Sensible Parenting offers the acclaimed parenting course, Redirecting Children's Behavior™ to provide today's parents and childcare workers with some of the most effective solutions to common parenting challenges. If you have tried everything you know and still are looking for answers...then RCB may be just what you have been looking for. This five week parenting course is full of effective parenting tools and great examples to help you quickly understand and implement. You also will receive the book, Redirecting Children's Behavior written by Kathryn Kvols and the matching workbook. You will feel more confident as a parent, and your children will feel a greater closeness, and more loved.
Anyone who wants to improve their relationships with the children in their lives will find the RCB course a great source of common sense tools and skills that actually work! More-->
The RCB parenting course is also useful for teachers and others who need up to 15 hours of In-Service Training credit.More->>
Fearless Parenting
"Parenting is the most difficult job most of us will ever have and the stakes are high. There are plenty of people eager to give advice, some of it helpful and much of it downright destructive. And, to top it off, we are constantly being told we're not doing a good enough job. It is no wonder that parents today feel so much fear, anxiety and frustration! It is important that we learn to develop our courage, because actions we take out of fear can often create just what we are most afraid of." More >>Parenting Does Not Have To Hurt
Several years ago Ann Landers asked her readers if they had it to do all over again, would they still become parents. An overwhelmingly large number said no, they would not. They all had their individual tales of woe to justify their stands, but it was evident that they all felt trapped in no -win situations with their children. Why is it that with even the very best of intentions many of us feel like such failures as parents, at least some of the time? More >>Good Parenting vs. Effective Parenting
Good parents control their children. Right? When a child is throwing a temper tantrum at the supermarket everyone is thinking, if not saying, "If they were good parents they'd control that kid!" Well, perhaps not everyone thinks that, but when it's our child and we are the ones on center stage it usually feels like it. Unfortunately all too often this feeling or fear of being judged gets in the way of effective parenting. More >>Eight Ways to Teach Your Child Values
"92 percent of us want our children to have better manners and values" says Gary Bauer former White House Advisor and President of the Family Research Council. What are values and how do we teach them to our children? More >>Truth About Consequences: Letting Children Learn from Reality
by Linda Anderson Krech
"If we allow a child to experience the consequence of his acts, we provide an honest and real learning situation." Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D.
There we were -- my four year old daughter and I, along with her twin friends and their mom, waiting with antsy anticipation for the small-town extravaganza parade to begin in Vermont's sweet little town of Bristol. We had arrived at the town green an hour early due to a misprint in the local newspaper calendar and had spent about 45 minutes swinging, sliding, and spinning around the gazebo and playground. Energy was high, spirits were even higher, and all was well until . . . my daughter began the look-at-what-a-brat-I-can-be performance. It was a sudden and unexpected turn of events, prompted by I know not what. There she stood, with both hands on her hips, stamping the ground repeatedly and yelling out her orders. For about three weeks prior to this Chani had, on occasion, been using her feet to get her point across, stamping her opposition in a supermarket and a few times at home. She knew that we found it rude and that we did not approve of this behavior. "Feet are for walking, not talking," we reminded her. She needed to use her words instead.
And on this particular day I was crystal clear about what I needed to do and I did it almost perfectly, if I do say so myself. I very calmly and gently asked her to start getting her things together. I told her that we were going to be leaving. I told our friends that we were going to be leaving, and that I would explain why another time, and that I hoped they enjoyed the parade. My daughter was stunned and began pleading and crying. Without telling her why we were leaving she said, "I promise I won't stamp my feet anymore. Can't I just try again? We didn't get to see the parade . . . " And I picked her up very gently, gave her a kiss, and did not engage in any discussion of the event. Instead, as we began walking away, I MORE->>