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Educate, Empower and Connect Parents of Teenagers
You're Empowered! Parenting Teens with Conviction, Communication and Love
This 3-hour audio program is for caring parents with time limitations. Empower yourself with practical hands-on strategies and tips in three one-hour sessions along with thought-provoking exercises in the companion workbook. Improve your communication and relationship with your teen! Program is available in CD and as an mp3 download. click for more information
Please Stop the Rollercoaster! How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride
For individuals: For busy parents of teenagers who find themselves unsure of their changing role, this book offers a wealth of practical, succinct information. Grounded in research, it guides parents to examine and discuss the most important issues they are likely to face. The hands-on approach helps parents understand their developing adolescent and smooth out their ride. *click for more information…you will be taken to PleaseStoptheRollercoaster.com
Topics addressed: Adolescent Development; Parents’ Changing Role;Improving Communication; Friends, Culture and Risk Behavior; Character Type and Temperament; Supporting Teens in School; and more.
For parenting discussion groups: Please Stop the Rollercoaster! is also a guide for parenting discussion groups. These groups run much like a book group; participants read one chapter in advance of a meeting; discussion questions are included in each chapter to guide the discussions. Complete instructions on running meetings are included in the book; additional support materials are available for free from our website. Groups can be self-directed, or led by a facilitator using the secular Leader’s Guide, the Christian Leader’s Guide or the Jewish Leader’s Guide. Click to view our video and to download a free chapter of the book.
Leader’s Guide and Program Manual
Our Leader’s Guide provide the materials for a facilitator-led parenting discussion group program. It contains clearly written, step-by-step instructions so that almost anyone can lead a group, and it is flexible so a leader can customize the program further to meet a group’s specific needs. Materials and instructions are provided for organizing and promoting the groups, and can be useful for all delivery models. On-site facilitator training is available, as well as training by tele-class, for those desiring it.
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Christian and Jewish Leader’s Guides
These two Leader’s Guides have been customized for Christian and Jewish faith communities in partnership with experts in these areas. Faith communities are a natural place for parents to gather and discuss their parenting journey. The Leader’s Guides will allow Christian and Jewish educators and lay leaders to run this program easily as they are guided step-by-step through planning and running each meeting. (Free excerpts are available from our website for your review.)
Practical Tips for Parents of Young Teens; What You Can Do to Enhance Your Child’s Middle School Years
This is a hands-on, quick-to-read 28 page booklet that answers the cries of parents who say “Just tell me what to DO!” Specifically written for parents of middle schools students, this is a booklet parents refer to over and over again. Many middle schools purchase these in bulk quantities for the parents of their students; consider passing this tool along to your child’s principal, guidance counselor and PTO.
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