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Founded in 1974 by Dr.
Kerby T. Alvy,the Center for
the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) has
grown to
be one of the nation's largest and most productive
nonprofit parenting and parenting education
organizations. For more information about our many
programs, activities, products and services, go to our
website,
www.ciccparenting.org, or call (800) 325-2422.
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| The Child Rearing Challenges That Confident Parenting Addresses |
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The Confident Parenting program provides
parents effective child rearing strategies and skills to
manage such child behaviors as:
- Disruptiveness
- Fears
- Shyness
- Tantrums
- Bedwetting
- Restlessness
- Disobedience
- Laziness
- Aggressiveness
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| Confident Parenting Strategies and Skills |
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Parenting strategies are general ways of
understanding and observing family life and the
behavior of children. Parenting skills are specific
methods that parents can use to increase their
children's helpful and positive behaviors and to
decrease their problematic and negative actions.
The 10 session Confident Parenting Program teaches
two general parenting strategies:
- How to Pinpoint and Describe the Behaviors
Parents Want to See More or Less Of
- How to Chart Their Children's Behaviors to
Eventually Learn Whether the Parenting Skills are
Doing Their Job
The 10 session program then uses demonstration and
role playing to teach these parenting skills:
- Effective Praising
- Mild Social Disapproval
- Systematic Ignoring
- Time Out From Attention
- Special Incentives (The Point System)
For a fuller description of the program and its
parenting skills, click here.
To obtain the Parent's Handbook for the program,
click here
To obtain the Instructor's Kit to Teach the Program,
click here.
To bring an instructor training workshop to your area,
click here
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| Research Findings |
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Research studies demonstrate that CICC’s
Confident Parenting Program reduces the need
for
additional family or child services, significantly
diminishes a variety of child behavior problems,
improves overall family relations and provides useful
alternatives to corporal punishment.
Thus, it can provide a community with an
intervention to promote child mental health and
prevent child abuse and school failure. By so doing,
the program also aids in preventing drug abuse,
delinquency and gang involvement.
For more information on the program's evaluation
results, click here.
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| The New One-Day Confident Parenting Seminar |
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A new version of the one-day seminar in
Confident
Parenting has just been created, and it now
available to be taught nationwide.
The one-day seminar is for groups of 30 to 300
parents and it is taught as a gala community
event.
The new seminar teaches two new parenting
strategies:
- How Children Learn Through the Consequences
of
Their Actions and Through the Models in Their Homes
and Communities
- How to Create Helpful Family Rules
It then teaches the basic Confident Parenting
Skills: effective praising, mild social disapproval,
ignoring, timeout and special incentives.
In addition it shares the latest national research
findings on the negative consequences of using
spanking and other forms of corporal punishment,
providing parents with even more good reasons to
use the Confident Parenting Strategies and
Skills.
To learn more and obtain the Parent's Guide for the
new One-Day Seminar, click here.
To learn about and obtain the Leader's Guide, click
here.
To learn about and obtain the instructional charts,
click here.
To have CICC send an instructor to your community
to conduct a one-day seminar, click here.
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Prevent Child Abuse Through Confident Parenting |
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Lack of parenting skills and the frustration that
comes from not knowing how to deal with and
manage a child's behavior significantly increases the
risk of child abuse.
Parents often feel
controlled by
their children's misbehaviors because they do not
know how to set limits effectively. They may pay so
much attention when their children misbehave that
they forget to notice the cooperative and peaceful
times.
The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring’s
Confident Parenting Program teaches parents
how to pay attention to and how to increase the
times when their children's behavior is helpful and
cooperative. It also
teaches effective limit-setting skills so that parents
will not feel victimized by their children’s misbehavior.
This edition of Effective Parenting highlights
this program. It indicates what types of child
behavior challenges the program is best suited to
address. It points out the parenting strategies and
skills which the program teaches to help parents with
these challenges. It also mentions the research on
the program's effectiveness.
Finally, a new version of the program is announced:
a new one-day seminar in Confident Parenting.
Do share all of this with your communities, and
take advantage of the opportunities to bring this
valuable program to parents in your neighborhoods.
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