Building Families wishes you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving!
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| Positive Solutions for Families in Belmond! |
Location:
Belmond United Methodist Church
1031 1st St SE
Time: 5:30-7:00
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Child Care and Meal provided
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October 26th
Session 1: Making a Connection! Meet each other and learn about our families.
Identify the importance of building positive relationships with children. Discuss
the “power” of using positive comments and encouragement with children.
November 2nd
Session 2: Making it Happen! Understand how play can be a powerful parenting
practice. Learn ways to help children develop friendship skills. Link building relationships,
using positive comments/encouragement, and play to children’s behavior.
November 9th
Session 3: Why do Children do What they do? Examine why children do what
they do. Practice ways to determine the meaning of behavior. Understand how
to make expectations clear for children. Understand effective ways to develop
and teach household rules.
November 16th
Session 4: Teach me What to Do. Identify feeling words and identify effective
ways to teach feeling vocabulary. Demonstrate the use of books to support emotional
literacy and social emotional development. Identify ways to cope with feelings
of anger and disappointment. Learn how to teach problem solving skills.
November 23rd
Session: 5 Facing the Challenge: Part 1 Examine nine specific strategies that
can be used to promote positive adult and child behavior in home and community
settings.
November 30th
Session 6: Facing the Challenge Part 2 Identify that problem behavior has
meaning. Identify the meaning of behavior by examining what happens before
and after the problem behavior. Identify the three parts of a behavior plan: preventions,
new skills to teach, and new responses. Learn to use the Family Routine
Guid e to identify supports for use with children during daily routines.
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| Growing Together Newsletter | In this issue you will discover how to discipline with kindness, teasing, soothing away stressful days and so many more fun things to do with your child! Be sure to check out the activity calendar. Click on the Growing Together link to the left and enjoy!
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| Finishing up in Webster City |
We are finishing up the last of Positive Solutions for Families in Webster City, but you can still have a chance to come! We welcome new parents to any sessions and we have a great group at Riverview! Earn a Stork's Bucks, if you have children ages 0-3, and a $10 Fareway gift card.
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Location: Riverview Child Care Center in Webster City
Time: 5:30-7:00
Dates: Oct. 29 & Nov. 12
Free meal and child care provided!
Call Amy Muller at 515-832-1791 ext. 202 to register!
| October 29th
Session: 5 Facing the Challenge: Part 1 Examine nine specific strategies that can be used to promote positive adult and child behavior in home and community settings.
November 12th
Session 6: Facing the Challenge Part 2 Identify that problem behavior has meaning. Identify the meaning of behavior by examining what happens before and after the problem behavior. Identify the three parts of a behavior plan: preventions, new skills to teach, and new responses. Learn to use the Family Routine Guide to identify supports for use with children during daily routines.
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