Parent's Workbook
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Learn effective parenting skills whether you have toddlers or teens! The highly acclaimed Parenting With Dignity® video program consists of nine one-hour lessons of insightful video coaching on DVD - and you can now preview the lessons below.
To get the greatest benefit from these videos, invite other parents to view the program with you. We highly recommend this for maximum learning as the group discussion that follows is always valuable.
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Summary: We must teach our children that the ideas in their head are up to them, and nobody can put any idea in their head without their consent!
Summary: Remember, just because you said something, does not mean your children heard it, understood it, and can translate what you said into productive action.
Summary: To establish expectations for your children's behavior it is first necessary to understand that you do not control your children's behavior directly. They control their own behavior.
Summary: You can fake like you care but you can't fake being there. To send messages of love to your children you must show up. Love is not a spectator sport.
Summary: To teach your values to your children you must use methods and techniques that get your children to "say it for themselves." You can tell your children that they should be honest until you are blue in the face, but it will not bring about lasting change in their behavior until they choose to adopt honesty into their personal ideas about themselves.
Summary: The best way to treat a child as if he/she is responsible, capable, intelligent, and important is to give him/her the tools of goal setting! Teaching these skills says, "You are capable and responsible so here are the tools to run your own life and make your own decisions."
Summary: When a parent resorts to punishment both the parent and the child begin to pay attention to the punishment and its fairness and being sure that it enforced. This allows the child to stop thinking about the decision process that brought about the negative behavior in the first place.