Rainbows United, Inc. / Smart Start of Butler County is pleased to offer another session of free parenting classes to residents of Butler County. The Incredible Years Parent Training Series is designed to promote social competence and prevent, reduce, and treat aggression and related conduct problems in babies, toddlers, young children, and school-aged children.
The 12-week long class will begin on Monday, January 30 in El Dorado, KS. A free family meal will be served and free child care will be provided. A certificate of attendance will be presented on the last night of class.
The short-term goals of the series are to:
1. Strengthen children's social skills and appropriate play skills (turn taking, waiting, asking, sharing, helping, complimenting).
2. Promote children's use of self-control strategies such as effective problem solving steps
3. Increase emotional awareness by labeling feelings, recognizing the differing views of oneself and others and enhancing perspective taking.
4. Boost academic success, reading and school readiness.
5. Reduce defiance, aggressive behavior, and related conduct problems such as noncompliance, peer aggression and rejection, bullying, stealing and lying.
6. Decrease children's negative cognitive attributions and conflict management approaches.
7. Increase self-esteem and self-confidence.
Promote parent competencies and strengthen families:
1. Increase positive and nurturing parenting.
2. Reduce critical and violent discipline approaches by replacing spanking with positive strategies such as ignoring, using logical and natural consequences, redirecting, adequate monitoring, and problem-solving.
3. Improve parents' problem-solving skills, anger management, and communication skills.
4. Increase family support networks and school involvement.
5. Help parents and teachers work collaboratively to ensure consistency across settings.
6. Increase parents' involvement in children's academic-related activities at home.
All participants must enroll with a Smart Start staff member before the first night of class. Please contact Audra Kenneson at 320.1342 or akenneson@rui.org.
(This information was taken from incredibleyears.com, the official sight of The Incredible Years.)
