Answers to your questions about the Redirecting Children's Behavior Course

Here is some helpful information about Redirecting Children's Behavior™ parenting classes.

The Redirecting Children's Behavior (RCB™) parenting course is 15 hours of advanced parenting skills training. We meet one night a week for three hours for five weeks. We begin the very first week with practical skills you will begin to apply in the most important relationships in your life. At the beginning of the second week, we help you fine tune those skills, and then we add some more. We do this each week so that you will fill your parenting toolbox without being overwhelmed. We limit the class size to 12 to give each student time to ask questions and get answers.

This parenting class is different from others that you may see on the internet in several ways. First, you receive personal attention! You have opportunity to actually participate and role play so that you can feel how your child feels in certain situations. We teach some lessons by "role playing" in both ineffective ways and then effective ways to show the benefits of handling different situations in different ways.

Another benefit to taking this parenting class at Sensible Parenting is that once you have taken the class from us, you can review at no additional charge (when space is available). Suppose your child is going through "the terrible two's" when you first take the course. When he/she starts school, you are dealing with different issues. You may want to refresh your memory about how to handle new parenting challenges.

The RCB enrollment fee covers 15 hours of instructor-led classroom hours over five weeks, the Redirecting Children's Behavior book, a parenting workbook, and all class handouts. Your will receive a Certificate of Completion when you complete the weekly homework (read the book and practice the techniques) and attend all 15 hours of classroom instruction.

I love to watch parents become even more confident and feel more joy in parenting over the five weeks of classes because they are learning and using new parenting techniques to create more peace and cooperation in their home.

Teens look to parents as guides for sexual behavior

It's such a common fear of parents. Thoughts of their teen succumbing to peer pressure and engaging in risky sexual behavior, or modeling their views of what is sexually healthy and appropriate from their teenage friends.

Fortunately, this article suggests that parents who maintain an open dialogue about sexuality might not have to worry about this quite so much. Check out the article: Teens Look to Parents as Guide to Healthy Sexual Behaviors here.



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Ever Feel Like Giving Up?

Ever Feel Like Giving Up?



Today I was reminded of one of the students from our "Redirecting Children's Behavior" course. She had a teenage daughter that she just couldn't seem to connect with. Whenever she said something encouraging to her daughter, she would just scoff it off. But this mother could not be stopped. She started writing love notes on Post Its and putting them on her daughter's closed door. However she noticed that those too were ripped off in similar disregard.

Then one day her daughter called from school and asked her mother to get something from her closet and bring it to her. Mom opened the closet door and found everyone of the Post It notes she had ever written attached in neat rows to the inside of her daughter's door!

Practice: This week, when you feel discouraged, remember this mother's story and make a decision to not give up.

Bribery vs Encouragement

Bribery is external motivation often based only upon achieving what the briber wants. Children (and adults) tend to accommodate to bribery and as time passes, greater and greater rewards must be promised to achieve the same results. Encouragement builds self-motivation, and the focus is based upon the level of an individual's effort without comparison's to others. More...

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"Self-esteem is the overall judgment of self...a sense of self-respect and self-worth...this is the core of the child's personality and determines the use he makes of his life." Alfred Adler
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All misbehavior is your child trying to communicate something to you More...

Give your family the best gift of all!!

There is nothing better for your family than peace in the home. All relationships are based upon two key ingredients, mutual trust and mutual respect.

Raising children is hard to do sometimes. Raising happy, self-motivated, respectful, self-reliant, self-confident, self-disciplined, helpful and loving children is even harder.

Finding time for yourself, feeling confident in your efforts and getting consistent results sometimes sounds like wishful thinking. But there are tools, skills, and techniques that can help you to achieve all these goals.

Enroll in the Redirecting Children's Behavior™ course, available to help you and your family. More...

The Christmas Blues
In many homes this year the Christmas Blues may be more strongly felt than in past years. The economy has taken a big bite out of many families Christmas budgets...and their food budgets too. The stress and worry felt by parents may be being felt by the children too.

Parents may think that they are doing a great job of hiding the economic problems, and the stressing you are feeling...and they may be. But by the time most children are older than six or seven, they are very often able to tell that things are just not right. It is sometimes a good idea to share a little of the reality to the children and allow them to participate in family planing sessions to decide how much should be spent on gifts and to help figure out how to save money.

Smaller children are often too small to really understand family finances, but will still want to know why mommy and daddy are unhappy. They need to know that the problems are not their fault, and that you love them and they don't need to worry.

It's a great time to focus on the real reason for the season. For Christians the season is about the celebration of the birth of Christ. For other religions there are other traditions and religious beliefs. But in none of the various faiths, is the purpose and meaning of the Christmas holiday season tied to how much you can give or get . More...