Parenting Classes

The Positive Discipline Way

 

 

Parenting – The most difficult and most important job we can ever do.

 

You are here because you have taken a powerful step towards helping your children, your family and yourself.  My guess is that you have also acknowledged the fact that you may not be responsible for the struggles of your children and family but there is something you can do about it.  Positive Discipline offers real solutions to parenting's greatest challenges.

Teach Your Children to Behave When No One is Watching

  • End power struggles
  • Redirect defiance
  • Stop morning and bedtime hassles
  • Teach your children to motivate themselves 
  • End sibling conflict
  • And much much more...

What if we decided as a society that improving as a parent was the most important thing to support and encourage.  Can you imagine what the world would be like 10 years from now?   How about 100 years from now?  Can you imagine how your own family (including you) could benefit from your efforts to grow as a parent?

 

When our children act out they are giving us opportunities to grow.  We are all incomplete and I believe we do the best we can with the information we have.  In fact, if we were perfect we would be doing our children a disservice by not modeling how to problem solve and learn from our mistakes.  Many people seek parenting classes for issues around defiance, anger, acting out, substance abuse, and sibling conflict.  Others are looking for a supporting group of people that can help normalize their struggles.  The Positive Discipline parenting approach can help you with these challenges and much more.

 

Positive Discipline has been around for over 20 years.  It is based on sound psychological principals developed by Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs, Lynn Lott and Jane Nelson.  Positive Discipline focuses mutual respect, encouragement, problem solving, and empowering our children on not what to think but how to think. 

 

Positive Discipline is a research-based method of teaching parenting that will give you effective tools for discipline that are kind and firm at the same time.  It is taught in an experiential way that is fun and engaging by a “non-expert” facilitator.  If you would like to end never ending hassles, take the electricity out of power struggles, have your children do what you told them to do because they want to then you are in the right place. 

 

I am sometimes asked why I became a parent educator.  Strangely enough, I am a person that thought I never wanted children.  In fact, I don't have any biological children of my own.  I have always enjoyed children, especially teens, and ended up marrying a wonderful woman that had a young daughter.  I was comfortable in the role as stepfather for many years until I started to realize what that role really was.   

 

Over time my wife and I realized the title of stepfather needed to be looked at again.  I was much more like a father to my stepdaughter than I realized.  This shift in thinking put me on a course of learning and growing.  I starting reading a lot of books on parenting and ended up enrolling in a masters program for counseling.   More recently I have obtained my CPE (certified parent educator) designation and offer parenting classes at my private practice and at a mental health clinic in West Seattle. 

 

Parent education is a great complement to family therapy when the problems are around child behavior.  Often many struggles that people have with their children can be solved by taking a parenting class.  I can then offer people counseling if they need more specific help. 

 

Please contact me today at 206-295-0624 for a free 15 minute phone consultation.