Parenting Classes Descriptions
What are Parent
Project Classes?
What is Parent
Project?
What are Love and Logic Classes?
A 10 to 16 week parent training program designed
specifically for parents of strong-willed or
out-of-control adolescent children.
The curriculum teaches concrete prevention,
identification, and intervention strategies for the most
destructive of adolescent behaviors (poor school
attendance and performance, alcohol and other drug use,
gangs, runaways, and violent teens).
How Does It Work?
Parents meet one night per week, two to three hours per
night, for 10 to 16 weeks.
Parents attend and learn in a classroom model, to manage
teen behavior problems at home.
Parents receive and work within an activity based 216
page curriculum "A Parent’s Guide to Changing
Destructive Adolescent Behavior," available only to
program participants.
Parent support groups are formed using the UCLA
self-help support group model.
Program orientation: behavior modification.
Project Objectives:
1. Describe the importance of demonstrating love and
affection.
2. Demonstrate and utilize effective discipline methods
with their out-of-control or strong-willed children.
3. Demonstrate effective methods of reducing family
conflict.
4. Recognize, confront and intervene with their
children's negative peer association or gang
involvement.
5. Develop effective action plans to stop any unwanted
behavior.
6. Improve the parent-child relationship.
PART ONE:
LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE
Session I Understanding Our Children
Introduces parents to a parenting model for
strong-willed children. Session I discusses and
practices key techniques for demonstrating love and
affection and the three most effective methods of
influencing and motivation your children.
Session II Addressing Problematic Behavior
Parents learn and practice strategies to effectively
confront problematic behavior and reduce family
conflict.
Session III Active Supervision, Structure and Improving
School Performance
Introduces parents to active supervision and structure
in the home. Parents learn and practice how these
parenting techniques are applied to improve school
attendance and performance.
Session IV Drug Use:
Identification, Intervention and Prevention Techniques
Parents learn and practice how to identify, confront and
intervene with adolescent drug and alcohol use.
Session V The Out-Of-Control Child
Parents learn and practice how to identify and intervene
with all negative peer associations including youth
gangs and the occult. Interventions for violence,
runaways and other out-of-control behaviors are also
presented here.
Session VI Developing Personal Action Plans
Parents learn and practice how to develop and initiate
effective action plans to stop any unwanted behavior.
Parents discuss the benefits of parent support groups.
PART TWO: CHANGING BEHAVIOR AND IMPROVING THE
PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIP
Session VII Finding Help and Support
This mini-lesson is designed to help direct parents to
community resources available to their families and
introduces parents to the utility of the support group
process.
Session VIII The Dynamics of Change
Parents explore the process of change and decide which
phase of change their families are currently
experiencing.
Session IX Managing Conflict in the Home
Parents learn to recognize potential causes of
parent/child conflict and practice strategies for
reducing conflict in the home.
Session X Effective Communication Skills:
Active Listening
Introduces parents to the components of active and
reflective listening. Parents discuss potential barriers
to listening to their children and methods of overcoming
these barriers.
Session XI Communicating Parental Views and Feelings
Parents practice communicating their views and feelings
with effective I Messages.
Session XII Building Positive Self-Concepts
Parents learn to recognize the negative messages that
are unwittingly sent to children that damage self esteem
and practice methods of promoting positive self-concepts
in their children.
Session XIII Consistency
Parents discuss why it may be difficult to remain
consistent with their children and describe some of the
negative messages parents send to children when they are
inconsistent.
Session XIV Expectations, Standards and Values
Parents recognize the importance of teaching children
family values and learn to communicate their
expectations to their children.
Session XV Promoting Family Unity
Parents list possible strategies for promoting family
unity and discuss methods of helping children recognize
their importance to the family unit.
Session XVI Putting It Together and Making It Work
In this final unit, parents discuss the benefits of
continuing the support group process and learn to
facilitate group meetings. Groups are encouraged to
continue meeting on their own using the structured
self-help parent support group format. Additional
resources and support for individual groups are provided
as needed.
What are Love and Logic Classes?
THE “BECOMING A LOVE AND LOGIC PARENT”
The Becoming a Love and Logic Parent program is a
professional program that has a tremendous reputation
for producing excellent results in changing behavior in
children and adolescents through changes used in
parenting beliefs. The Becoming a Love and Logic Parent
program was developed by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline,
M.D. of the Cline/Fay Institute, Inc. of Golden,
Colorado. The facilitator for the classes in Idaho Falls
and Rigby is Steve Dewey. He currently resides in Idaho
Falls. Steve Dewey has over 18 years of experience with
teaching children and adolescents with severe emotional
and behavioral problems both in the public schools and
at Primary Children’s Residential Treatment in Salt Lake
City.
After taking the classes, parents using the techniques
have stated, “Parenting is now fun again.” One mother
using the techniques that were taught to her stated, “I
don’t know why schools and other parents aren’t using
this. This is great information for everybody to have.
It is the only thing that has worked on my son to get
results.”
The main idea of how the Becoming a Love and Logic
Parent program works is through the philosophy that
children need to learn how to have “real world” learning
experiences. The way to have this happen is to NOT
protect them from the consequences that come from the
mistakes they make in their bad decisions. Parents are
trained to consult with their children when they make
bad choices while they’re young and the consequences are
not expensive and damaging. Rather than getting angry at
their child’s mistakes, parents need to offer empathy
and consequences to their children, putting the thinking
and responsibility right back where it belongs – on the
child.
When we refer to a child “at risk,” we are referring to
a child who is not capable of functioning in the “real
world.” Preparing children for the real world is the
biggest job parents face. This is what “Parenting With
Love and Logic” is all about – getting our children
ready to leave home at age eighteen, knowing they are
not at risk. We want them to look at the real world and
say: “I recognize this world! We practiced for it at
home!”
By taking this course parents can expect to accomplish
long lasting, successful parenting skills that will
enable them to feel more confident in raising their
children. As parents feel excited to implement these
skills in the home, children will feel more supported by
their parents as well as be responsible for their own
behavior and changes in their beliefs and values.
Classes run for seven weeks, one night per week, for two
hours per class. Please call for information on
registration, class schedule, qualifying for reduced
rates or free classes or for any questions you may have.
