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What Can You Expect When You Take the 5-Week Course?
"Redirecting Children's Behavior" is a powerful course designed to help you create the family of your dreams. Would you like more cooperation and support? If you answered yes, then this class is for you.
Taught in five, 3-hour sessions, the course atmosphere is fun, supportive and non-judgmental. The course gives parents fast, effective ways to become calmer and more confident and to raise their children to be responsible and cooperative. Parents are given easy-to-learn positive parenting techniques that allow them to redirect their children's behavior through loving guidance rather than ineffective punishment. Parents and caregivers learn how to use practical discipline tools to create cooperation, build self-esteem and strengthen relationships from birth to adulthood.They will learn tips on using logical consequences, setting limits, and achieving peaceful resolution of conflicts.
Redirecting Children's Behavior is a certified course through the International Network for Children and Families (INCAF). Founded over twenty years ago by Kathryn Kvols, INCAF has now certified over 1,000 parenting educators and the Redirecting Children's Behavior course is currently taught in 15 countries world wide. Read more about INCAF here.
With RCB Your Family Will be a Source of Rejuvenation, Fun and Encouragement!
In 5 Sessions You Will Learn These Proven Parenting Skills:
- The difference between motivating through love vs. motivating through fear
- Communicate in a way that encourages your child to talk to you
- Resolve conflict without power struggles
- Teach children how to solve their own problems, offering them guidance when needed
- Understand why time-outs do not work and what to do instead
- Assist children in developing self-control, responsibility and self-confidence
- How to work as a unified couple
- How to make parenting more fun
- Effectively redirect sibling rivalry
- Set clear limits and follow through with meaningful consequences
- Establish family meetings to teach leadership, values, and problem solving skills
Session 1
Understand what influences a child's personality
Learn to manage stress
Replace sibling rivalry and fighting with negotiation and cooperation
Teach children to resolve their own conflicts
Understand a child’s behavior and how it relates to birth order
Developing healthy self-concepts
Promoting cooperation and helpfulness
Session 2
Develop an effective parenting style
Teach self-motivation and self-management without rewards, bribes or punishment
Learn how to build high self-esteem
Teach children respect and responsibility
Explore how parenting methods affect children
Learn the importance of limits and how to set them
Session 3
Understand why a child misbehaves
Learn how to minimize power struggles
What to do when a child demands attention
Learn how to get cooperation without bribing, yelling, or threatening
What to do when a child is hurtful
Intervention and corrective measures that work
What to do when a child is discouraged and wants to give up
Session 4
How to talk to your kids so they listen
How to handle and express feelings
What adults do to block communication
How to guide a child to solve their own problems
Teach children to be accountable for their actions
How to get results without punishment
Using natural and logical consequences
Why ‘Time-Outs’ are ineffective and what to do instead
Session 5
How to win the other parent’s cooperation
Promoting agreement for couples
Working together as parents
Keeping a good thing going
Effective family communication
Creating a sense of ‘Team’ between all family members
IS THIS PROGRAM FOR YOU?
If you're at your wits end and tired of yelling, arguing and nagging ...
If you're not happy with how you handle things, perhaps you're getting angry a lot, spanking, or using ineffective punishments but aren't sure what else to do. You just would like to feel more confident and in control...
If you're frustrated with your kids fighting all the time and want them to learn how to work out their conflicts without the screaming and violence...
If you'd like more peace in your family, more laughter, more fun and LESS stress...
If you're a teacher that's frustrated when the same one or two kids knock the whole class off balance and wonder how to handle it without taking all of your attention away from the kids who are behaving. If you'd like to replace power struggles and tattling with teamwork and cooperation...
If your marriage is strained and stressed because you and your partner do not agree about how to dicipline the children. You think he's too hard on the kids and she's to lenient...
If bedtimes, mealtimes and mornings are torture! Your children won't stay in their bed, won't eat their dinner or stay in their seat, and forget getting them dressed!...
If your teenager is wearing you thin; the attitudes, the moodiness, the homework struggles...
If you're feeling resentful, used and abused. If you're feeling unappreciated and exhausted as apposed to rejuvenated and encouraged...
If parenting is an important job for you and you just want to learn new valuable techniques and tools...
If any or all of the above scenerios ring true for you then... THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU!!
A Positive Approach to Parenting
Children create a tremendous challenge for adults. The increase in two-career couples and single parents has made parenting a greater challenge. The International Network for Children and Families (INCAF) offers the “Redirecting Children’s Behavior” course to deal with the stresses of today’s family.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?
Expecting Parents, Single Parents, Parents of Teens, Parents of Multiples, Parents of Gifted Children, Step-Parents, Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, Babysitters, Nannies, Teachers, Doctors, Midwives, Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers, Pediatricians, or anyone who relates to children. Attend a Redirecting Children's Behavior workshop or course and have fun learning over 100 hands-on practical skills to:
- Minimize Hassles, Tantrums, and Tears
- Discipline Without Yelling, Scolding, Arguing
- Teach, Empower & Let Go of Your Kids
- Redirect Behaviors of Attention, Power, Revenge, & Inadequacy
- Respond Effectively vs. React Emotionally
- Stop Sibling Rivalry & Family Fights
- Remove Guilt & Fear in Raising Your Kids
- Raise Self-Motivated & Self-Reliant Kids
- Eliminate Power Struggles
MEMBERSHIP FOR LIFE
Upon course completion, students will receive a certificate of completion of the RCB course. This certificate grants permission to review the entire RCB course at any location in the world at anytime for $50.
COURSE BACKGROUND
"Redirecting Children's Behavior" is strongly influenced by the work of Rudolf Dreikurs, MD., author of the highly acclaimed book "Children: The Challenge". The course was developed by Kathryn Kvols.
All "Redirecting Children's Behavior" instructors are certified by the International Network for Children and Families. INCAF is one of the only originations that require their instructors to get their cert and maintain their certification through continuing education.
For over 25 years, the International Network for Children & Families has been providing parenting courses and instructor training worldwide. Over 1000 instructors have been trained in 15 countries.
ADDITIONALCOURSE BENEFITS
*Receive 15 hours of In-Service Credits or CCE points
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Fee:
$225/person or $299/couple
$50/person Course Review
Tuition includes course book and workbook