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Parenting Young Children
Communication and Positive Discipline
with 2 to 5 year-olds
14 one-hour videos
Topics
1. Understanding Children’s Behavior - Part 1: Finding the Good Idea
2. Understanding Children’s Behavior - Part 2: The Reasons for Challenging Behavior
3. Teaching and Sharing Values with Children
4. Self-Reflection: Teaching and Parenting
5. Understanding Children's Feelings
6. Helping Children with Their Fears
7. Positive Limit Setting - Part 1
8. Positive Limit Setting - Part 2
9. Positive Limit Setting - Part 3
10. Cooperative Problem-Solving - Part 1
11. Cooperative Problem-Solving - Part 2
12. Building Sibling Relationships
13. Parenting with a Partner
14. Putting it All Together
Topic descriptions
Class #1
Understanding Children’s Behavior - Part 1: Finding the Good Idea:
Understanding why children do things is the key to positive discipline. From the child’s point of view, every behavior he or she does has a good idea behind it. Finding the child’s good idea is the key to helping him both improve his behavior and feel good about himself. (Top)
Class #2
Understanding Children’s Behavior - Part 2: The Reasons for Challenging Behavior:
Often parents ask themselves, “Where did that behavior come from???” Children’s behavior sometimes seems random and confusing to adults. However, there are reasons for children’s behavior. Identifying the reasons helps adults provide positive discipline for children that meets both the adults and the child’s needs. (Top)
Class #3
Teaching and Sharing Values with Children:
Parents are children’s most important teachers. Children learn through every interaction they have with their parents. How are children learning from us and how can we best teach children the values and information that are most important to us? (Top)
Class #4
Self-Reflection: Teaching and Parenting:
Parents are growing, too. And, because we are growing we are going to make some mistakes. How do our mistakes affect our children? How can we use our mistakes as positive learning opportunities for our children and ourselves? (Top)
Class #5
Helping Children Understand Feelings:
Children are born not knowing anything about feelings. How can we teach them about their feelings and the feelings of others so that they can be emotionally healthy and emotionally literate; so that their feelings can be seen as assets, instead of liabilities? (Top)
Class #6
Helping Children with Their Fears:
Contrary to popular belief, fear can be a positive emotion. Understanding our children’s fears will allow us to help our children develop healthy ways of managing their fears that will serve them a lifetime. (Top)
Class #7
Positive Limit Setting - Part I:
Limits help children feel safe. Children don’t yet know their own boundaries or the boundaries of the world. It is the adults’ job to set positive and respectful limits for children. Learn some strategies to set clear, consistent limits with children that allow children to learn and grow with confidence and security. (Top)
Class #8
Positive Limit Setting - Part II:
What happens when our limits don’t work? Learn ways to follow-through and other strategies to help children know that you are able to hold a clear and positive limit. (Top)
Class #9
Positive Limit Setting - Part III:
Practice some additional positive limit-setting, using role-plays to try out our new strategies. (Top)
Class #10
Cooperative Problem-Solving - Part I:
Children’s friendships are the source of both delight and challenge in the pre-school years. What do we want children to learn about friendships and relationship skills? What is the adult’s role when children are in conflict with each other? (Top)
Class #11
Cooperative Problem-Solving - Part II:
Learn and practice specific strategies to help children who are in conflict with each other, including: active listening, positive limit setting, providing information, redirection, “sportscasting,” defining the problem, and brainstorming ideas with children for mutual solutions. (Top)
Class #12
Building Sibling Relationships:
Sibling relationships provide a wonderful forum for children to practice relationship skills. What do we want children to learn about family relationships? How can we help children learn to build relationships with their siblings that will nurture them for years to come? (Top)
Class #13
Parenting with a Partner:
Parenting with a partner can offer wonderful support, as well as considerable conflict for parents. Learning to successfully negotiate differing perspectives, beliefs, styles of discipline, goals and values can provide a wonderful model to children about relationships. Learn communication strategies to support this life-long dialogue. (Top)
Class #14
Putting It All Together:
Reflecting on what we have learned in the series. How have we changed as parents?
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