Archive for the ‘Family Meetings’ Category

52 Parenting Tool Cards in 52 Weeks – Single Dad Brad’s Mission

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Positive Discipline Tool Cards (c)Some of you have heard me mention the new “Positive Discipline Tool Cards”. Just as a deck of playing cards has 52 cards, so does the deck of Positive Discipline Tool Cards”.

“Single Dad Brad” has decided on a New Year’s resolution to improve his parenting skills one week at a time. Each week, he’ll introduce a new card and work on improving on the skill or concept for raising children using Positive Discipline tools.

For his first week, he’s chosen one of my favorite Positive Discipline tools – JOBS!!!!

Single Dad BradVisit Single Dad Brad’s blog and enjoy reading about his journey to improve his parenting skills in 2010 using the 52 Positive Discipline Tool Cards. We all need to work on improvement through baby steps. So Brad isn’t expecting perfection from himself or from anyone who launches the “52 Cards” improvement campaign with him. I know Brad personally and he has a great sense of humor, which he uses often while single parenting.

If you’d like a set of Positive Discipline Tool Cards for yourself, Brad provides a link on his website where you can order a set for $12.95 plus shipping. (Regular Price is $15)

I’m working on an idea to offer a 4 1/2 hour workshop using the Positive Discipline Toolcards so if you’d be interested in a Saturday afternoon parenting workshop in the Greenville, SC area, e-mail me at KellyPfeiffer@THINKitTHROUGHparenting.com and let me know.

The cost would be around $45 per person for the 4 1/2 hour workshop. I travel too so if anyone gets together a group of parents, contact me for details about how I can teach a “Positive Discipline Toolcards Workshop” in your area.

Barack Obama, Alfred Adler and Jane Nelsen – All in One Article

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

White House

Did you know that the Obama daughters are expected

to make their own beds in the White House before school each morning?

Apparently, the first family is setting a great example for our current parenting class,

Teach Your Children to Fish:

Essential Life Skills for Teaching Independence

 

First read an interesting article,

Parents Hoping to Emulate Barack and Michelle Obama

which appeared in the Chicago Tribune on December 14, 2008.

 

Next move on to reading

 Daddy O Brings Parenting into Politics

a web article published on December 28, 2008 which mentions

Barack Obama,

Alfred Adler (The Positive Discipline classes and philosophy are based on Adlerian psychology)

and Jane Nelsen (author of over 13 Positive Discipline parenting books).

 (click on the article titles to read each article)

Listen to Jane Nelsen discuss Family Meetings

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Jane Nelsen

The Positive Discipline website is a great resource for parents.

One of the free resources offered are podcasts.

A podcast is simply an audio message recorded digitally. Parents can either listen to the podcast directly from a computer or download it to an IPOD or MP3 player.

Jane Nelsen discusses her favorite Positive Discipline tool,

Family Meetings in

Positive Discipline podcast #44. <—-Click here, then scroll down to podcast #44 and you can listen to Jane Nelsen talk about family meetings.

 

This podcast is free as are many other

podcasts, articles and answers to parent questions

on the Positive Discipline website.

When Are Children Old Enough for Family Meetings? – Jane Nelsen Answers

Thursday, September 4th, 2008


Family meetings help families work together to decide on issues such as household chores, schedules, meal times, vacations, house guidelines, solutions for misbehavior and more.

Read Jane Nelsen’s answer to the question,

“When are Children Old Enough to Participate in Family Meetings?”

We’ll explore the concept and implementation of family meetings in the January 2009 class,

Teach Your Children to Fish:

 

Two Children on Beach Fishing, Photo by Wally Erwin, http://www.morguefile.com/archive/?display=222045&

 

Essential Life Skills for Teaching Independence

 

Spring 2009 Class: January 6, 13, 20 and 27

 

Preparing children for real life means teaching them how to do laundry, cook, clean, maintain a car and more. Children who feel capable and genuinely needed misbehave less than children who are pampered. This active learning workshop explores the Significant Seven Perceptions and Skills that promote self-reliance in children and teens, teaches family tools for assigning age appropriate chores and helps parents practice follow-through techniques.

 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

-Chinese Proverb