Category: Parenting Class
Date: February 11, 2020
Katie Gaebel, alumni teacher who taught with us for seventeen years at The Acorn, is teaching a course on Positive Parenting Strategies in our upcoming STEP Parenting Class. Katie earned her BA in Special and Early Childhood Education and holds her Master’s Degree in Elementary School Counseling. She has enthusiastically led these STEP parenting courses for many years, and parents have gained a new perspective and set of skills to use in parenting.
The STEP program teaches extremely positive approaches to understanding and raising children. The STEP approach includes appreciating that children’s behaviors are motivated by a variety of goals, that encouragement for children becoming the best that they can be is extremely important, and that family councils for making decisions for and with children are highly valued.
The STEP program teaches a variety of parenting skills and strategies, including:
Understanding Yourself and Your Child
Understanding Young Children’s Behavior
Understanding Beliefs and Feelings
Building Self-Esteem in the Early Years
Effective Listening and Talking to Your Child
Effective Discipline
Problem Solving
Natural and Logical Consequences
Encouragement: Encouraging Your Child and Yourself
Communicating with Young Children
Helping Children Learn to Cooperate
Discipline that Makes Sense
Understanding Your Parenting Style
Choosing Your Approach
Nurturing Emotional and Social Development
The Goals of Child Misbehavior
The Courage to be Imperfect
The classes will be held on Tues. mornings, from 9:20 to around 11:30, starting Jan. 7. The cost will be $90 for one parent and an additional $55 if both parents attend. This includes one parent workbook per family that will be used throughout the course. Please mark your calendars now