Welcome
Parenting can be challenging.
What can you do when you have questions about parenting?
Today’s parents have found that:
- • Times have changed. You may not want to ask your parents for parenting advice.
• Gathering reliable parenting information is complicated. You don’t know whom to trust.
• Positive parenting is new. You want to learn. You do not want to be too strict or too permissive.
The reasons people seek more information about parenting are varied.
• Spanking is no longer advised by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Parents are seeking different tools to get children to stop negative behavior and better ways to teach their children desired behavior.
• Positive parenting is now recommended as a parenting approach based upon current research. Most of today’s parents were not raised with this approach, so there is not an inherent “blueprint” for parents to use as a model with the next generation of children.
• Our culture has moved toward a more democratic society in the workplace and in families. All parents want the best for their children, and raising children who can respectfully voice their thoughts and be a team player will be highly sought after in the job market in the years ahead.
• In this age of social media there are so many messages bombarding parents. Sifting through conflicting parenting advice is a daunting task! Compounding this is the fact that busy parents may not have the time to do all the research to determine which advice to follow.
When parenting is hard, parents wonder what they should do and where to turn for support, guidance, and encouragement. Whether you are looking for common ground because you and your co-parent disagree about how best to parent or you have been wondering how to:
• make parenting easier,
• strengthen your family relationships,
• help everyone feel better about being in your family,
The Positive Discipline parenting approach may help. Positive Discipline focuses on ways to build the parent-child/parent-teen relationship. Positive means effective. It does not mean permissive. Discipline means to teach.
Parents can consider a Positive Discipline class or Parent Coaching.
Click here for an information sheet.
If support is needed now see: Urgent Care for Parents.
Parenting can be challenging.
What can you do when you have questions about parenting?
Today’s parents have found that:
• Times have changed. You may not want to ask your parents for parenting advice.
• Gathering reliable parenting information is complicated. You don’t know whom to trust.
• Positive parenting is new. You want to learn. You do not want to be too strict or too permissive.
The reasons people seek more information about parenting are varied.
• Spanking is no longer advised by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Parents are seeking different tools to get children to stop negative behavior and better ways to teach their children desired behavior.
• Positive parenting is now recommended as a parenting approach based upon current research. Most of today’s parents were not raised with this approach, so there is not an inherent “blueprint” for parents to use as a model with the next generation of children.
• Our culture has moved toward a more democratic society in the workplace and in families. All parents want the best for their children, and raising children who can respectfully voice their thoughts and be a team player will be highly sought after in the job market in the years ahead.
• In this age of social media there are so many messages bombarding parents. Sifting through conflicting parenting advice is a daunting task! Compounding this is the fact that busy parents may not have the time to do all the research to determine which advice to follow.
When parenting is hard, parents wonder what they should do and where to turn for support, guidance, and encouragement. Whether you are looking for common ground because you and your co-parent disagree about how best to parent or you have been wondering how to:
• make parenting easier,
• strengthen your family relationships,
• help everyone feel better about being in your family,
The Positive Discipline parenting approach may help. Positive Discipline focuses on ways to build the parent-child/parent-teen relationship. Positive means effective. It does not mean permissive. Discipline means to teach.
Parents can consider a Positive Discipline class or Parent Coaching.
Click here for an information sheet.
If support is needed now see: Urgent Care for Parents.
