The skills you need to be the best parent (and partner) you can be.
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- Nurturing yourself.
- Understand and manage your emotions.
- Clarify what values are important to you and your family.
- Get and stay on the same page with your co-parents.
- Maintain and enhance your toolbox of parenting skills.
Scroll down this page for information about:
- Managing Emotion and Mindfulness
- Setting Limits, Dealing with Conflict, Listening and Responding
- Managing Conflict
- Parenting Fundamentals
Mindfulness and Managing Emotion
Workshop: Emotional Regulation
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- What is emotional regulation and how might it be relevant for you and your family?
- Develop the skills needed for managing emotions under all circumstances which will aid you in successfully keep your cool when in crisis mode.
- How to use self-calming strategies to reduce emotionally induced stress.
- Explore how helping our children manage their emotions effectively is a key building block in family communication, school success, and positive peer interactions.
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- Pocket Reference
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Workshop: Mindfulness: Managing Seasonal Stress
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- Use mindfulness techniques and self-calming strategies to manage stress
- Better understand, tolerate, and deal with your emotions in healthy ways by using techniques to alter habitual responses by pausing and choosing how you act.
- Explore how helping our children manage their emotions effectively is a key building block in family communication, school success, and positive peer interactions.
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- Pocket Reference
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In-depth articles
Setting Limits, Dealing with Conflict, Listening and Responding
While all children need guidance and boundaries, it can feel like life with children of all ages is a 24/7 battle. Fortunately, there are some concrete skills that can help. Review active listening strategies and how this “soft skill” has value for your children both in and beyond the family.
Workshop: Communications and Boundaries
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- Why having boundaries are so important.
- Help to define your family’s limits.
- Learn how to “pick your spot,” communicate it clearly, and stick to it.
- Active listening strategies
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- Pocket Reference
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In-depth Articles:
Workshop: Active Listening
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- An overview of the tasks and benefits of active listening.
- Exercises to practice this essential communication skill in a variety of parent-child and parent-to-parent scenarios.
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Workshop: Managing Conflict: Keep Your Cool and Make It a Teachable Moment
Techniques for navigating the conflicts that are a part of all families’ lives. Learning how to recognize and manage your own anger is an important step in becoming a better role model for your child.
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- The impact of a parent’s behavior on a child’s
- What triggers anger, and ways to express and control it in non-explosive ways
- Better understanding how to manage stress
- The effects of anger on the parent-child relationship
- Ideas for improving outcomes after family conflict
- PowerPoint Slides
- Pocket Reference
- Feelings Thermometer
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In-depth Articles
Parenting Fundamentals
Stay at the top of your parenting game by refreshing the tools, techniques and skills you need to be the best parent you can be.
Workshop: Parenting Positively
How the essential elements of effective parenting provide a happy and stable environment for your child to develop as independent and resilient individuals.
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- Developing a strong parenting partnership
- Increasing positivity through play
- Setting limits (including discipline)
- Communication strategies to provide structure to family life
- Navigate conflict and understanding the emotional triggers that challenge the parent-child relationship
- Use the tools of mindfulness to manage emotions in a healthy way
- PowerPoint slides
- Pocket Reference
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In-depth Articles
Workshop: Parenting as a Team
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- Effective parenting is much easier when you and parenting “partners” are working from the same playbook.
- What are the advantages and barriers to parenting as a team.
- How to improve parents’ ability to “be on the same page”
- Addressing special situations such as integrating other family adults or coping with a co-parent who is absent or refuses involvement.
- PowerPoint Slides
- Pocket Reference
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Workshop: Parenting Styles and Kids’ Temperaments
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- How much of the frustration you feel as a parent, and the conflicts that your family experiences, are a result of a mis-match between your parenting style and your child’s temperament?
- There are four basic parenting styles; identify where you fall and what that means to your interactions with your family.
- Assess and understand your child’s temperament.
- Learn to modulate your parenting based on your child’s temperament and your parenting style.
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- Pocket Reference
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