Parenting can certainly be challenging! Parenting is much less stressful when you have an effective plan for responding to misbehavior. We'll discuss the key elements of this plan including disciplining using natural and logical consequences, responding with empathy instead of anger, avoiding power struggles and guiding your children to owning and solving their own problems.

This session looks at three basic parenting styles: director, personal assistant and consultant. Which style do you typically use? How can you change your style to be more effective? We'll discuss various examples of each style along with the benefits and drawbacks of each style.

It is critical to develop effective parenting skills when your children are young. The way you parent your preschoolers can lead to priceless rewards when they are teenagers. We'll discuss field tested techniques for dealing with things like tantrums, tattling, fighting, begging at the store and going to bed.

We want our teens to grow into adults who can thrive on their own. How do we balance trying to keep them safe while also allowing them increasing responsibility? How do we deal with teenage attitude? How do we get them to do their share of the work around the house? We'll discuss how to guide teenagers to successfully gain their independence.