The Marshall Road PTA will present a parenting workshop following a brief PTA meeting at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, in the cafeteria.
Join MRPTA for a special opportunity to focus on our most important job: PARENTING. Neil McNerney, The Director of Training for The ScreamFree Institute and a Licensed Professional Counselor and Family Therapist, will show you specific skills to help restore calm, reclaim respect, and regain love and fun in your family. Neil is a certified parenting coach and uses the ScreamFree model developed by bestselling author Hal Runkel (www.screamfree.com).
Neil will focus on specific ideas that you can use immediately to provide better leadership for your kids, including:
- Let the consequences do the screaming
- Ingredients of a good rule
- Passive vs. Active Consequences - This one will surprise you!
- Stop vs. Start Behaviors
- Why grounding for a month doesn't work
Please join us for this positive and productive evening, Tuesday May 11 7:30-9:00 pm in the cafeteria.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Child resisting school? Try a sabbatical for kids.
Child resisting school? Try a sabbatical for kids.: "The Washington area has the highest concentration of ambitious and challenging schools in the country, a result of both the quality of the educators and the affluence of the parents. But such educational riches come at a price. Schools that demand so much don’t work for some kids. Parents, including some Post colleagues, occasionally tell me about their bright children who see no point in many assignments and don’t do them, leading to tension and heartburn for the adults. When it gets too bad, a family may pull the kid out of school to let everyone calm down and see if another approach can be found. The pause in schooling doesn’t usually last long. The student reads on his or her own for awhile--something they like to do---until the parents find a different school or a new year begins with new teachers better tuned to different rhythms. You might...
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