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Your Featured "Chef" Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE is a second-generation parent educator, founder of The Family Network, award-winning author of The Parents Toolshop book and President of Parents Toolshop Consulting. She has 25+ years experience as a workshop trainer and parenting expert to the media worldwide, including Parents magazine and the Ident-a-Kid television series. She currently serves as the online parenting expert for Cox Ohio Publishing’s mom-to-mom websites and also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative. For more information about Jody, see:
http://www.parentstoolshop.com/HTML/author.htm.
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Each session (course) includes a recording of a 1-hour live workshop, plus handouts (PowerPoint) to reference during and after the presentation.
Your Ten-Course Menu includes:
(Click on the title to order
individual sessions or
jump to the bottom
to order the set) SESSION 1: Blended or Tossed? Which Is Your Parenting Style? □ Discover Whether Your Style Is Best For Reaching Your Parenting Goals □ Improve Teamwork With Parenting Partners □ The 6 Reasons Even Effective Parenting Tools Might Not Work
SESSION 2: The "No-longer Secret" Recipe for Preventing & Resolving Problems. □ Discover the Universal Parenting Plan You Can Customize for Any Situation or Child □ The 3 Questions You Must Ask in Every Parenting Challenge. □ The 5 Steps for Responding Effectively To Any Parenting Problem.
SESSION 3: Nutritious Appetizers That Boost Self-esteem and Avoid Obese Egos. □ Give Encouragement Without Creating “Praise Junkies.” □ Increase Children’s Confidence and Resistance to Peer Pressure. □ Prevent and Diffuse Sibling Rivalry and Competition.
SESSION 4: Get Cooperation Without Squeezing the Juice out of Kids! □ Get Cooperation the First Time You Ask --- Without Power Struggles! □ Motivate Children Without Bribes, Incentives, Stickers Or Rewards. □ Why Children Do What You Just Told Them Not To Do — and How to Prevent This.
SESSION 5: Serve Up Some Wings So Children Can Leave The Nest. □ Teach Children Life Skills, Good Behaviors & Values. □ Foster Independence & Responsibility in Children. □ Use Allowances Effectively --- Without Paying Kids to Do Daily Chores!
SESSION 6: Children's Menu: How to Really Listen to Your Child. □ Teach Children How to Solve their Own Problems --- Responsibly. □ Develop Your Child’s Decision-Making Skills. □ Resolve Peer, Sibling and School Issues With Less Drama!
SESSION 7: Tame the Fire of Anger & Stress -- Before You Get Burned. □ Reduce Your Daily Stress □ Make Individualized Anger & Stress Management Plans for You and Your Children. □ Slice Sass and Back-Talk From Your Child’s Vocabulary.
SESSION 8: The Kitchen Stinks! Cut off "PU" Misbehavior Before You Get "PO'd." □ 4 Questions to Ask to Discover Why a Child is Misbehaving. □ How to Avoid Reactions that Escalate Problems or Give Payoffs. □ The 9 Reasons Children Misbehave and the Best Response for Each.
SESSION 9: Take the Bite out of Discipline! □ Avoid the Pitfalls of Punishment. □ The “4 R’s” of Using Discipline Effectively □ The Best Four-Star Discipline Tools That Develop Self-Discipline
SESSION 10: A Brainstorming Buffet □ A Quick Review of Family Councils □ Using the Universal Blueprint™ Success Formula in Adult Relationships □ Ask Your Burning Questions & Get Personalized Answers.
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ALA CARTE: INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
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A FULL-COURSE MEAL: ALL 10 SESSIONS (save 25%!)
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Add-on Resources to Remember & Practice ALL the Skills |
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The Parent’s Toolshop: The Universal Blueprint for Building a Healthy Family ~ by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE (Second Edition © 2000, 456 pgs., ISBN: 1-929643-34-9) This award-winning step-by-step guide for parenting children of all ages is the original Universal Blueprint™ book, which presents the unique problem-solving process for identifying, preventing, and responding to any possible parenting challenge -- and 100+ tools that are so universally effective, they even improve adult relationships! Each chapter explains dozens of practical tools in easy-to-understand terms. There are cartoons, real-life stories, applications to common parenting situations and practice exercises. The Parent's Toolshop is a comprehensive one-stop resource that truly equals dozens of books combined.
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11" x 17" Universal Blueprint™ Poster (with magnets) ~ This full-color poster summarizes the key skills from The Parents Toolshop book on one 11" x 17" poster. Hang it on your fridge for an instant reminder of the Universal Blueprint’s problem-solving steps, top tools, skills and unique "house" layout.
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The Universal Blueprint™ Choose Your Own Solution Parenting Hint Book ~ Learn the basics steps and tools of the "Universal Blueprint," the one-of-a-kind effective-response planning formula presented in The Parents' Toolshop book. The 33-page e-book will guide you through the process, step-by-step. Simply answer the question at each step, then click a link or turn a page to find where your answer leads you. You will get ideas for what to say and do at each step, based on your answer. Use it over and over to find individualized solutions to any parenting challenge involving children ages 1-18. (To run on Apple/Mac, use Parallels)
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