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Positive Parenting II: Toddler to Twelve

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This print/video training curriculum focuses on toddlers to ten-year-olds. Includes 1 1/2 hour video, six lession guides, parent handouts, learning aid, resource lists and more! Here's the Table of Contents with some samples:

Parenting Tools

—overviews an array of alternative discipline tools.

• Lesson Guide: Parenting Tools
• Background: Understanding Early Elementary-Aged Children
• Background: Understanding Late Elementary-Aged Children
• Parent Handout: Effective Parenting Tools
• Parent Handout: Nurturance and Prevention Tools
• Parent Handout: Guidance Tools
• Parent Handout: Consequences Tools
• Worksheet: Applying Nurturance and Prevention Tools
• Worksheet: Applying Guidance Tools
• Worksheet: Applying Consequences Tools
• Worksheet: Applying Effective Parenting Tools
• Parent Handout: Ten Tips for Using Parenting Tools
• Optional Parent Handout: Time Out
• References: Parenting Tools

Attention

—emphasizes the importance of attention as a positive force in child discipline; urges parents to "catch their children being good"; distinguishes between evaluative praise and descriptive praise.

• Lesson Guide: Attention
• Parent Handout: Catch Your Child Being Good
• Worksheet: The Bug/Brag List
• Parent Handout: Praise That Builds a Child's Self-Esteem
• Worksheet: Practice Using Descriptive Praise
• Poster/Handout: Suggestion Circle
• Poem: Children Deserve Praise
• References: Attention

Respect

—offers ways for parents to help their children develop empathy, respect, and compassion; urges parents to model respectful and cooperative behavior to their children.

• Lesson Guide: Respect
• Background: The Development of Respect and Other Prosocial Behaviors in Children
• Worksheet: Respect
• Parent Handout: Encouraging Respectful Behavior
• References: Respect

Responsibility

—offers ways for parents to help their children develop responsibility; offers some perspectives on overindulgence and spoiling.

• Lesson Guide: Responsibility
• Background: Children and Responsibility
• Parent Handout: Helping Children Become Responsible
• Quiz: Myths and Realities of Teaching Children Responsibility
• Case Studies: Is It Responsibility, Obedience, Abundance or Overindulgence?
• Optional Checklist: Why Parents Overindulge
• Optional Handout: Overindulgence: To Spoil or Not to Spoil
• Background: What the Research Tells Us About Overindulgence
• Optional Handout: Alternatives to Overindulgence at Each Developmental Stage
• Optional Handout: Parents Teach Children Responsibility About Money at a Very Early Age
• Optional Handout: Children with Special Needs
• Handout: A Great Cup of Tea
• References: Responsibility

Monitoring

—explains the meaning and importance of monitoring (or supervising) children and teens and offers some guidelines for monitoring.

• Lesson Guide: Monitoring
• Background: What the Research Says About Monitoring
• Parent Handout: Monitoring Tips for Parents
• Transparency/Handout: Marijuana Use and Parental Monitoring
• Transparency/Handout: Teen Drunkenness and Parental Monitoring
• Transparency/Handout: Sexual Activity of Ninth Graders and Parental Monitoring
• Transparency/Handout: Teen Grade Point Averages and Parental Monitoring
• Transparency/Handout: Teen Problem Behaviors and Parental Monitoring
• Worksheet: How Well Do You Know Your Child?
• Worksheet: Decision Making Together for Better Monitoring
• Parent Handout: Children Home Alone
• Worksheet: Is Your Child Ready For Self-Care?
• References: Monitoring

Siblings

—offers parents effective ways to reduce and to handle sibling rivalry and conflict.

• Lesson Guide: Siblings
• Background: Growing Up with Brothers and Sisters
• Worksheet: Being a Parent to Siblings--Avoiding Comparisons
• Activity Sheet: Handling Sibling Fighting
• Activity Sheet: Lifeline
• Checklist: Why Siblings Quarrel and What to Do About It
• Parent Handout: What to Do When Siblings Quarrel
• References: Siblings