This workbook is currently being written. We hope to be able to offer it to you soon. It will be offered through our home site, “www.nonviolenceeducation.com”. We have listed below the contents of the workbook. We feel this workbook is helpful to any parent who wants to become a better parent or who wants to build a better relationship with their child. The workbook is also useful for professionals working in the field of parenting education. Click below at “purchase workbook/program” if you wish to be routed to “nonviolence education.com” for pricing details. You can email us at “contactus@nonviolenceeducation.com” if you wish us to contact you when the workbook if ready. The cost of the workbook is $35. The program pricing depends on the number of hours taken.
Contents:
- The first three years
- Other developmental stages
- Normal sexual development and behavior
- Normal speech & language development
- Temperament – the nature part of behavior
- Reinforcement – the nurture part of behavior
- The importance of birth order
- Beliefs every parent can do without
- Understanding your child’s behavior at a deeper level
- Abusive parenting techniques & styles
- How we create abandonment issues in our children
- The effects of violence on children
- The case against spanking
- Sexual abuse
- Recognizing problems
- The power of positive reinforcement
- Modeling – the best teacher
- Teaching self-discipline
- The importance of boundaries
- Building self esteem
- Handling divorce
- Dealing with an angry child
- Avoiding power struggles
- Listening
- The family meeting
- Helpful hints for stepparents
- Teaching accountability through consequences, not punishment
- Withdrawal of privileges works (a structured, comprehensive plan)
- Time outs – a coping skill for life
- Non-violent solutions to some common behavioral problems
- Analyzing ourselves – how are we the problem?
We normally will email the workbook to you. It is an interactive workbook that you can just use on your computer or you can print it out.
Our parenting program is useful for court ordered people or just people that wish to have a more active experience with the workbook. The workbook offers helpful exercises for everyone to practice their skills. The program expands the user experience by offering a series of tests to assess the level of your learning, by offering unlimited questions to us by email about the material, by offering 1 or 2 phone interviews to help you with your learning and by offering progress or completion reports if needed.
Once you have completed 8 hours of any program with us you are eligible to participate in a skill support session if you wish. See “skills support” page.
Let us know if you have any questions.
