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Positive parenting begins by creating an emotionally healthy environment for children to grow, filled with love, guidance, and respect. Join leading adolescence and parenting expert Laurence Steinberg, PhD, in an examination of the ten basic principles of good parenting. Parents share their personal experiences of raising their children while Dr. Steinberg delves into the important role parents play in shaping emotionally healthy children throughout the span of childhood.
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach sibling preparedness? Look no further! Super Sibling has it all-it combines the essential information that you need to teach with the wacky humor that kids love. Young children are captivated by this high-energy program that teaches them positive sibling skills. Through the silly antics of Doctor Higabigaby and his Super Computer, funny characters, cool animation, and true stories, you will prepare children to become super siblings.
Avery's Baby Sister (Sibling Story) - super sibling Avery shares what life is like with a new baby
Baby Face - newborn appearance
Baby Touch - holding a newborn, safety
Baby Talk - newborn behavior, crying, sleeping
Baby Food - understanding the importance of breastfeeding baby
Baby Helper - helping out with the new baby
Feelings - understanding the difference between sunny and stormy feelings and how to cope
Our Parenting I Trivia Challenge software includes hundreds of questions covering terminology, concepts, situations and factual information related to the first five years of a child's life.
Our Parenting II Trivia Challenge software includes hundreds of questions covering terminology, concepts, situations and factual information related to years 6-12 of a child's life.
Getting kids to behave and to cooperate can be a real challenge, especially with foster and adoptive children. It's easy for both parents and children to slip into negative and frustrating interactions. In this first course from the Positive Parenting series, parents learn three techniques for keeping parenting positive, gaining cooperation, tracking behavior, and using encouragement.
DVD / 2011 / (Infant/Toddler, Preschool, School Age, Adolescent) / 31 minutes
Positive Parenting 2- Setting Limits and Behavior Contracts covers how to set behavior limits and make them work. The first segment, Setting Limits, addresses established household rules and clarifies which limit-setting approaches work, and which don't. The second segment explores Behavior Contracts and shows how these contracts help parents and children build mutual understanding about expectations and rewards.
DVD / 2011 / (Infant/Toddler, Preschool, School Age, Adolescent) / 35 minutes
Positive Parenting 3 introduces three techniques to use in more challenging situations. Time-outs offer children a break from the situation so they can calm down and regroup. Removing Privileges can be more effective with older children, who will understand the connection between their behavior and what they lost. Assigning Extra Chores teaches that an unpleasant task is the reward for negative behavior.
DVD / 2011 / (Infant/Toddler, Preschool, School Age, Adolescent) / 28 minutes
An increasing number of foster parents find themselves caring for children from minority groups and facing challenges regular foster parent training did not address. The loss of one's culture and identity can have far-reaching consequences for today's youth. Tanya M. Coakley, PhD., Professor of Social Work and specialist in transcultural foster, kinship, and adoptive care, provides parents insight into and strategies for dealing with cultural differences in the family.
Learn how to help children maintain a healthy cultural identity, build their confidence and self-esteem, and deal with prejudice and racism. Gain understanding of how a child's life experiences and the status of his culture influence the way he views and experiences the world.
This course examines the child's need for cultural awareness, sensitivity, and identification. Also covered are racial profiling, facing prejudice, and parental advocacy strategies.
DVD / 2009 / (Infant/Toddler, Preschool, School Age, Adolescent) / 30 minutes
Do your viewers have a "don't ask, don't tell" teen alcohol policy? Do kids in your community think that "everyone is drinking," when actually they are not? Parenting in the Age of Alcohol explores a sobering perspective on teens, alcohol and a parent's responsibility.
Single parents face unique challenges. This positive 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to the difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Single parenting can be challenging-this video helps make it easier.
Volume 1: Creating a Healthy Life for Yourself
Shows single parents how to prioritize the needs of their children while still maintaining their own health, interests, and activities.
Reviews
"Single Parenting: The Family in Harmony is a sensible and compassionate guide to conquering the challenges of single parenthood." - Leah Klungness, Ph.D., co-author of The Complete Single Mother
"This program is very a useful resource for helping single parents learn the essentials for successful solo parenting." - Barry Erdman, LCSW, DCSW
Single parents face unique challenges. This positive 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to the difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Single parenting can be challenging-this video helps make it easier.
Volume 2: Creating a Healthy Life for Your Child
Provides strategies for single parents to meet the varying needs and unique challenges of their children from birth to adolescence.
Reviews
"Single Parenting: The Family in Harmony is a sensible and compassionate guide to conquering the challenges of single parenthood." - Leah Klungness, Ph.D., co-author of The Complete Single Mother
"This program is very a useful resource for helping single parents learn the essentials for successful solo parenting." - Barry Erdman, LCSW, DCSW
See what Moms and Dads have learned over the past 100 years! Why do parents do what they do? What has influenced parenting practices for the last 100 years? This video reviews events, government policies, and child development theorists who have shaped the way we parent our children.
What does it really mean to be a parent? There are many challenges and adjustments that first-time parents face when their baby is born.
This relaxed, testimonial-style video shows many real-life family events and parenting styles, adjusting to the changes that children bring, and how the style your parents used will affect how you parent your own children.
Parenting is a challenge at any age, and teens who face impending parenthood are especially in need of information and support systems. In this video, teens learn how to prepare themselves for a huge change in their lives. Becoming a parent means assuming a long-term responsibility. It's not easy to be a teen parent, but the strategies presented in this video will help teens to cope with a new role successfully.
Learning Objectives:
1) Students will learn how to prepare for parenthood.
2) Students will learn some strategies that will help them to cope with the constant demands of an infant.
3) Students will learn about the importance of bonding with their babies.
4) Students will understand that continuing their education assures a better future for them and for their children.
Extreme Off Road Parenting is an interactive training video for parents of young children who throw temper tantrums.
In the related DVD, Off Road Parenting, Dr. Richard Delaney provides parents with Plan A for dealing with children's anger. In this version he comes up with Plan B, which involves understanding what's behind children's anger and what alternative steps parents can take to resolve it.
Specifically, Extreme Off Road Parenting helps parents:
Understand how serious anger outburst can occur in very young children
Consider possible reasons why standard parenting may not solve these problems
Ask the right questions when standard parenting isn't working
Consider steps to take when a child's anger outbursts persist
By watching the S.O.L.V.E. formula put into action, then following up with an interactive problem-solving exercise, parents quickly learn essential skills to overcome common toddler behavior challenges.
Common Behavior Issues - toddler developmental stages, "normal" behaviors, staying calm, potty training tips
Formula in Action - effective and positive responses, skills for curtailing temper tantrums, hitting, and other misbehaviors, techniques for disciplining in public
Abuse Prevention - alternatives to yelling and spanking, anger management
Reviews
"A terrific tape! A resource I wish I had when my kids were toddlers." - William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Professor U of MN; Director, Marriage & Family Therapy Program; Author of Take Back Your Kids
"S O L V E does a great job providing a practical strategy to help parents manage their children's behavior as well as their own behavior in relation to toddlers normal developmental challenges." - Cynthia D. Stringfellow, Training Manager, Healthy Families America
"I LOVE IT! The S O L V E formula is so clear and usable. It gives parents a way to solve behavior problems based on developmental expectations for their toddler. You did a terrific job!" - Dot Marsden, M.Ed., Early Childhood Education Consultant, Research Associate University of Michigan, Author
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Outstanding Achievement - Parent's Guide to Children's Media
What do you do when children misbehave?How effective are you at managing misbehavior?You will discover the importance of discipline, the four types of misbehavior (goal-getting, reaction-seeking, indolence and fear) and six methods for handling misbehavior (extinction, satiation, stimulus-change, physical restraint,incompatible response and punishment).You will also observe five punishment options: overcorrection, privilege removal, add-on tasks, time-out and spanking.Mixing humor, solid information and a cutting-edge style, this program is sure to keep your attention.
There are things you can do as a parent to encourage self-motivation. Become familiar with the cycle of motivation (commitment, skill development, skill refinement, boredom, change or reaffirmation, awareness and exploration) and find out why intrinsic motivation (self-motivation) is preferred above extrinsic motivation (the use of incentives, bribes, rewards and manipulation).Even if you are not a parent,this is a must-see program!
What does it take to make your home a place where you and your family want to be? What are the consequences of being too lenient or too strict with children? Learn about the three parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative and permissive. Improve the quality of your home and family using salutary recognition, "kid-talk," exciting activities, memories, identity formation, ego-building statements, the secure base, consequences and feedback. Listen to parents share their unique experiences.
Discovering your baby has a problem can be a very traumatic experience. This video is designed to give parents hope and support through enlightening them to the wonderful benefits of Early Intervention. Early Intervention is a system of services designed for children with unique needs between the ages of birth to three and their families.
In this video you will learn about the amazing benefits of Early Intervention and how Early Intervention will help you help your child and benefit your entire family!
Guidance for school managers, teachers and support staff on creating and sustaining relationships with demanding parents
Parents are more aware of their rights than ever before. They have often have high expectations of their children, their children's teachers and the school. Sometimes these high expectations can lead to negative behaviour, ranging from over assertiveness to threats of violence and occasionally physical assault.
Working with Challenging Parents?is a valuable professional development programme for use with both teaching and support staff. It communicates productive strategies and techniques for gaining the co-operation of demanding parents featuring dramatic reconstrctions, interactive tools and the input of teachers, senior managers, parents and personal safety specialists.
The training delivers an understanding that your behaviour has a crucial influence on how others behave towards you, and demonstrates different methods that can be used to resolve situations before they escalate. It also shows how any situation can have multiple outcomes, depending upon the resolution method used.
The programme
Looks at the causes of emotional and irrational parental behaviour
Develops practical skills to avoid conflict, de-escalate situations and deal with threats of violence
Considers reviewing your's school's policy for dealing with difficult parents and looks at ways of developin whole-school approaches that encourage parental inclusion
Examines teachers' and parents' prejudices towards one another
Guidance for school managers, teachers and support staff on creating and sustaining relationships with demanding parents
Parents are more aware of their rights than ever before. They have often have high expectations of their children, their children's teachers and the school. Sometimes these high expectations can lead to negative behaviour, ranging from over assertiveness to threats of violence and occasionally physical assault.
Working with Challenging Parents?is a valuable professional development programme for use with both teaching and support staff. It communicates productive strategies and techniques for gaining the co-operation of demanding parents featuring dramatic reconstrctions, interactive tools and the input of teachers, senior managers, parents and personal safety specialists.
The training delivers an understanding that your behaviour has a crucial influence on how others behave towards you, and demonstrates different methods that can be used to resolve situations before they escalate. It also shows how any situation can have multiple outcomes, depending upon the resolution method used.
The programme
Looks at the causes of emotional and irrational parental behaviour
Develops practical skills to avoid conflict, de-escalate situations and deal with threats of violence
Considers reviewing your's school's policy for dealing with difficult parents and looks at ways of developin whole-school approaches that encourage parental inclusion
Examines teachers' and parents' prejudices towards one another