Positive Discipline Parenting Workshop
November 5th at 8:15am
Primary School, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
805 Mt. Vernon Highway, NW, Atlanta, GA 30327
The Parents’ Association at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School invites parents of currently enrolled students, as well as alumni parents and parents in the community, to join (Dunwoody Resident) Kelly Gfroerer, Ph.D., LPC, Certified Positive Discipline Educator, for a workshop on Positive Discipline. This workshop will help parents learn to better understand their children’s behaviors and develop effective strategies for long-term results.
What is Positive Discipline?
Positive Discipline is a program based on the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs and designed to teach children to become responsible, respectful and resourceful members of their communities. Based on the best-selling book series, Positive Discipline, by Dr. Jane Nelsen and co-authors, this program teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and parents.
Positive Discipline strategies help children learn: listening skills, brainstorming skills, problem-solving skills, mutual respect, strategies for calming down/cooling off before solving a problem, concern for others, cooperation, and accountability. Parents learn to avoid power struggles and micromanaging children while helping their children to learn self-control and self-discipline. (www.positivediscipline.com, 2013)
FIVE CRITERIA FOR POSITIVE DISCIPLINE:
- Helps children feel a sense of connection. (Belonging and significance)
- Is mutually respectful and encouraging. (Kind and firm at the same time)
- Is effective long-term. (Considers what the children are thinking, feeling, learning, and deciding about themselves and the world)
- Teaches important social and life skills. (Respect, concern for others, problem solving, and cooperation as well as the skills to contribute to the home, school or larger community)
- Invites children to discover how capable they are. (Encourages the constructive use of personal power and autonomy)
TOOLS AND CONCEPTS OF POSITIVE DISCIPLINE INCLUDE:
- Mutual respect. Adults model firmness by respecting themselves and the needs of the situation, and kindness by respecting the needs of the child.
- Identifying the belief behind the behavior. Effective discipline recognizes the reasons kids do what they do and works to change those beliefs, rather than merely attempting to change behavior.
- Effective communication and problem solving skills.
- Discipline that teaches (and is neither permissive nor punitive).
- Focusing on solutions.
- Encouragement (instead of praise). Encouragement notices effort and improvement, not just success, and builds long-term self-esteem and empowerment.
Please RSVP to parentedrsvp@hiespa.org to reserve your seat. There is no cost to attend.
“Never do for a child what he can do for himself.” Rudolf Dreikurs
