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Description:
Do your children repeatedly ignore
or refuse your requests for proper behavior? Are you constantly
fluctuating between permissive and authoritarian parenting, with little
or no success? Are you convinced there has to be a better way? There
is.
Dr. Robert MacKenzie is a highly sought after parent educator with more
than 25 years of experience helping parents solve children’s
learning and behavioral problems. The author of the best selling books:
Setting
Limits and Setting
Limits with your Strong-Willed Child (Random
House), Dr. MacKenzie consults nationally with schools and parent
organizations.
Recognized for his lively and humorous presentations, Dr.
MacKenzie’s workshops, lectures, and keynote presentations
are loaded with dozens of practical skills and strategies you can put
to use immediately with your children. You’ll learn the tools
you need to stop misbehavior when it happens and gain the
cooperation you expect, without giving in or exhausting yourself with
coercive power struggles. Join the thousands of parents who have moved
beyond
power struggles to enjoy more cooperative and satisfying relationships
with their children.
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Testimonials:
What
People Say About the Workshops:
"Excellent workshop! It changed my parenting style."
Richard Colston,
Parent, Sacramento, CA
"Urgent information needed by all parents and educators
for success in today's society."
Janice
Jett, Professor, National University
"Dr. MacKenzie's methods are clear and easy to use. They
work! My husband and I are getting cooperation we didn't think
possible."
Janet
Anderson, Parent, Woodland,
CA
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Program Highlights:
Setting
Limits
Workshops Help Parents To:
- Enforce clear, firm, and effective boundaries
- Gain cooperation without conflicts and power struggles
- Teach rules in the clearest, most
understandable way
- Stop misbehavior with natural and logical
consequences
- Teach children to solve problems on their own
- Teach responsibility with chores and homework
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Syllabus Full-Day:
How
Parents Teach Their Rules: The Spectrum of Training
Models: The Permissive Model, The Punitive Model, The Mixed Approach,
The
Democratic Approach, Why Limits are Important, The Family Dance of
Miscommunication, What Happens when Mom and Dad Use Different
Approaches, How to Get On the Same Page Together.
How Children Learn
Our Rules:
Limit-Testing is How Children Conduct Their Research, Understanding
Temperament and Learning Styles, Learning Styles Can Be Confusing,
Compliant Children are “Easy-Way Learners,”
Strong-Willed
Children are “Hard-Way Learners” and Very
“Aggressive
Researchers,” Is Your Teaching Style Matched to Your
Child’s Temperament? Good Matches and Bad Matches, Learning
to
Teach the Way Your Child Learns Best.
Are Your Limits
Firm or Soft?
Soft Limits: When “No” Means
“Yes,”
“Sometimes,” or “Maybe,” The
Starting Point for
Most Family Dances, Mixed Messages, Invite Testing and Power
Struggles, Firm Limits: When “No” Really
Means
“No,” Firm Limits Provide Clear Signals About Our
Rules and
Expectations.
How To Be Clear
with Your Words:
How to Give a Clear Signal, How to Stop Power Struggles Before They
Begin, Five Steps Off the Dance Floor: Check-In Procedure, Cool-Downs,
Cut-Off, Timers for Dawdlers, Limited Choices for Limit Testers.
How To Be Clear
with Your Actions:
Why Consequences are Important in the Training Process, How We Use Them
Determines Their Effectiveness: Immediacy, Consistency,
Logically
Related, Followed by Forgiveness, Natural Consequences, Logical
Consequences, Time-Out Procedure, and More…
How To Motivate and
Teach Problem-Solving Skills:
Positive Versus Negative Approaches to Motivation, Examples at Home and
School, Predictable Outcomes, Positive Motivation Works Best, Start
Positive, Stay Positive, Build on Positives, How to Use Incentives,
Teaching Skills When Children Lack Skills, Showing Them Works Better
Than Telling Them, Four Proven Strategies for Teaching Skills: Role
Modeling, Try-It-Again, Exploring Choices, Limited Choices.
Understanding the
Change Process:
Stages of Change, Ten Myths About Changing Children’s
Behavior,
Coping with Resistance, Developing Realistic Expectations, Developing
Support Systems, Sustaining Improvement.
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Syllabus
Half-Day:
How
Parents Teach Their Rules:
The Spectrum of Training Models: The Permissive Model, The Punitive
Model, The Mixed Approach, The
Democratic Approach, Why Limits are Important, The Family Dance of
Miscommunication, What Happens when Mom and Dad Use Different
Approaches, How to Get On the Same Page Together.
How Children Learn
Our Rules:
Limit-Testing is How Children Conduct Their Research, Understanding
Temperament and Learning Styles, Learning Styles Can Be Confusing,
Compliant Children are “Easy-Way Learners,”
Strong-Willed
Children are “Hard-Way Learners” and very
“Aggressive
Researchers,” Is Your Teaching Style Matched to Your
Child’s Temperament? Good Matches and Bad Matches, Learning
to
Teach the Way Your Child Learns Best.
Are Your Limits
Firm or Soft?
Soft Limits: When “No” Means
“Yes,”
“Sometimes,” or “Maybe,” The
Starting Point for
Most Family Dances, Mixed Messages Invite Testing and Power
Struggles, Firm Limits: When “No” Really
Means
“No,” Firm Limits Provide Clear Signals About Our
Rules and
Expectations.
How To Be Clear
with Your Words:
How to Give a Clear Signal, How to Stop Power Struggles Before They
Begin, Five Steps Off the Dance Floor: Check-In Procedure, Cool-Downs,
Cut-Off, Timers for Dawdlers, Limited Choices for Limit Testers.
How To Be Clear
with Your Actions:
Why Consequences are Important in the Training Process, How We Use Them
Determines Their Effectiveness, Immediacy, Consistency,
Logically
Related, Followed by Forgiveness, Natural Consequences, Logical
Consequences, Time-Out Procedure, and More…
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Syllabus Two Hours:
Each Focus Workshop
Topic is two
hours in length.
Ending
Power Struggles: How
to be clear with your words, Check-in when kids tune out, Cut-it-off
when kids try to hook us into arguments and debates, Cool them down
when kids get hot, Give limited choices for persistent limit testers,
Use timers with dawdlers and procrastinators.
Supporting
Rules with Natural and Logical Consequences: Why
consequences are important in the teaching-and-learning process,
characteristics of effective consequences, Natural Consequences:
natural learning experiences, Logical Consequences: structured learning
experiences, Time-Out Procedure: one of the most effective and
misunderstood guidance methods.
Teaching
Responsibility with Chores: Applying
Grandma's Rule: Work before play, Structuring chores into the day,
When to start assigning chores, Chores for children of different ages,
Holding children to being accountable with logical consequences
The
Homework Dance: How
it begins and what keeps it going, a system out of balance, teaching
good habits, accountability procedures, using logical consequences to
keep kids on track.
Understanding
Temperament and Learning Styles: Learn
what factors influence learning, how to identify your child's learning
style, understand learning styles and learning disabilities and how to
provide special help and accommodations so children learn to their full
potential.
Bully-Proofing
Your Child: Understand bullies and bullying, Who they are
and why they do it,
Legal, moral, and ethical issues,
Preventive measures are the best safeguards, Countermeasures: Specific
skills children can use when they are being bullied, How parents can
help, How teachers can help.
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