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The
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring is
proud to announce the creation and availability of
the New
Confident Parenting!
The New Program is
designed and written by CICC's Founder and
Executive Director, Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, in collaboration
with one of CICC's outstanding National Trainers
of Parenting Instructors, Dr. Camilla A.
Clarke. History of "Confident
Parenting"
This
widely acclaimed and widely used how-to-do-it
child management program was originally designed
in the 1970s to help parents of all backgrounds
raise healthy and well-behaved
children. It
taught a series of skills to enable parents to
positively influence their children's behavior and
development. And hundreds of instructors
nationwide have been trained to use it in their
schools, child care centers, agencies, churches,
synagogues, hospitals and private
practices.
Then
during the 1980s, the
skills from the original Confident Parenting
Program were incorporated into what have
become the nation's most widely used and honored
programs for parents of African and Latino
American children, CICC's Effective Black
Parenting and Los Ninos Bien Educados
programs. Those
programs teach all of the skills from the original
Confident Parenting Program as well as additional
skills and parenting strategies.
All of these programs have been
used successfully in community projects nationwide
to promote healthy child development and to
prevent child abuse, school dropout, drug abuse,
juvenile delinquency, gangs and
crime.
The
New
Program
The New Confident
Parenting teaches all of the
skills from the original program plus many of the
strategies and skills that were added to the
culturally specific programs.
It
emphasizes and clearly teaches parents about the
two main ways that children learn, through
modeling and through the consequences that their
behavior generates. These pivotal ideas are
taught through simple ways that make it easy for
parents to use this knowledge to assist them in
raising healthy, happy and successful children and
teenagers.
In addition, the
New Confident
Parenting includes coverage of such
specific contemporary parenting challenges
as...
- How
to deal with children and teen's involvement
with the technological advances that have
changed the lives of all of us (the Internet,
social networking websites, cell phones, iPODs,
etc.) and...
- How
to help children and teens resist peer pressures
to engage in dangerous actions.
The
result is a truly modern, how-to-do-it program
which all parents should have the opportunity to
learn and use.
Program Leader's
Kit and
Components
The eight components
of the New Confident
Parenting program are available as an
Instructional Kit, or as separate items (click here).
The components
are:
1. The Parent's Handbook that
contains all of the skills and strategies,
including guidelines on how to practice the skills
before using them with children.
2. 117 Instructional Drawings, Diagrams
and Charts in a PowerPoint format to be
used by instructors and educators as they present
all or part of the program.
An all purpose and reproducible
flyer to attract parents to classes, workshops, or
presentations (included in the CD of the
Instructional Drawings).
3. A DVD and Discussion Guide entitled
Yelling, Threatening and
Putting Down: What To Do Instead for use
in Confident Parenting presentations and
classes.
The DVD depicts typical, real life situations
where the behaviors of children are particularly
challenging, such as when children interrupt
parents, when they become highly frustrated
and angry, when they whine and fuss in public, and
when they fight with each other.
After these
situations are shown, the DVD is stopped and
parents are asked how they might handle them
without yelling, threatening or putting their
children down.
Then the DVD
is started again and a variety of excellent ways
of managing these challenges are demonstrated,
including through seeing parents using such
Confident Parenting skills and strategies as:
- Effective
Praising,
- Mild
Social Disapproval,
- The
Thinking Parent's Strategy, and
- The
"Family Rules Are Like A Coin"
Strategy
4. Getting Parents Into Programs: CD and
Worksheets - Parenting instructors
and organizations who run parenting programs often
complain that their hardest and most difficult
task is attracting and maintaining parental
participation. This comprehensive presentation
provides them with proven strategies and advice
for both successfully recruiting parents and for
keeping them involved.
5. Video Demonstration: Praise and Mild
Social Disapproval - In this
video basic skills are demonstrated and role
played in a Confident Parenting class led by
National Trainer, Dr. Julie Kuehnel, providing you
with a model on how to teach these skills to
parents.
6. Family
Rule Cards (In English and Spanish) for
use in teaching skills and to help parents focus
on the positive. The cards include humorous
drawings of the "do" and "don't" sides of family
rules.
7. Graduation
Certificates - 25/pack - to distribute at
the end of the class.
Click here
to obtain Leader's Kit and/or program
components.
________________________________
 The Center for the
Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was established
in 1974 and has grown to become one of the
nation's most influential and productive nonprofit
parenting and parenting education organizations.
For
more information about CICC's many parenting
programs, services and products, go to
www.ciccparenting.orgor call toll-free
(800) 325-2422.
To
sign-up to receive CICC's Free Effective Parenting
Newsletter, click here.
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