Introduction to the Course

Class curriculum

Our class consists of 7 modules. Each one lasting 45 – 60 minutes.

Session 1 – Parenting Styles & Emotions

• Parenting style quiz & results
• Managing our emotions & parenting styles
• Boundaries with our kids and our parenting partners
• Balancing parenting partnerships

Session 2 – Self-Esteem

• Don’t Should on ME
• When the chips are down
• Motivation
• Disabilities vs superpowers
• Sharing Scripts to save each other’s feelings

Session 3 –Stages of Development – Physical and Emotional

• Fist Brain talk
• Building Choice Muscles – Everyone carries their own Bag of Rocks
• Developmental Stages of Childhood
• Get more of whatever you focus on or What is your brain magnetized to

Session 4 – No “Bad” Emotions

• What is Empathy & What is NOT Empathy
• Check your oil – analogy
• Pain Cycle
• Need to feel both feel good and feel bad emotions to be healthy

Session 5 – What if “Bad” Behavior is a cry for help or poor communication skills?

• Hot button “Old enough to Know better”
• Babies cry and teens act out when uncomfortable
• If you take away an outlet you need to replace it with a skill

Session 6 –Negotiating – The art of getting others to do what you want and thank you for it!

• Teens are like Feral Cats
• Why “telling” doesn’t work
• The 3 skills of great negotiators and how to use them

Session 7 – Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll

• Using the skills to deal with the big issues
• Examples
• Avoiding the addiction cycle