Becoming a More Connected Family: Honey Creek Parenting Class

The Honey Creek Wellness Committee is sponsoring a free Parenting Series for Honey Creek parents K-8 entitled Becoming a More Connected Family.

This series will meet once a month over the school year. You may attend all or any of the sessions.

Thursdays-November 5, 2015, December, 3, 2015. 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Wednesdays-January 6, 2016, February 10, 2016, March 16, 2016, April 13, 2016 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Logistics: Childcare will be provided. Please RSVP to let us know how many children will be coming. Also, the Wellness Committee will provide dinner on Nov 5 if you RSVP that you'd like dinner. You are, of course, welcome to bring your own dinner. We can discuss together how we want to proceed with food for the following months. Thanks!

Class Details: Conscious Discipline is the most comprehensive discipline program available. It is specifically designed to provide parents with the conscious awareness and skills needed to create safe, connected, problem-solving homes.

Visit www.consciousdiscipline.com

The series will be led by Mary Masson, a Certified Conscious Discipline Instructor and a veteran teacher and parent/teacher educator. Mary ‘s grandchildren attend Honey Creek and she has volunteered assisting their teachers once a week in their classrooms over the past 5 years.

Topics covered will be:

• Why do parents and children act the way we do-It’s all about the brain!
• What triggers our upsets? How can we calm ourselves?
• Who showed up? Understanding temperament-ours and our children’s
• How can we encourage our children?
• How to create a home environment for active calming
• Creating the PAUSE for self-regulation
• Promoting helpfulness
• Predictable Routines-the skeleton that supports the family
• Rituals-the glue that holds us together.
• Finding our assertive voices-parents and children
• Setting limits respectfully
• Handling tattling
• Offering choices
• Seeing the best in each other
• Reframing blame
• Helping children accept and process their feelings
• Using consequences/problem solving