Parenting News You Can Use: July 1, 2008
Parenting News You Can Use!
July 1, 2008
Volume 2, Issue 27
Publisher: INCAF
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Focus for July: National Purposeful Parenting Month
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. 2008 Fall RCB Schedule
2. Tips for Summer Learning
3. Mom Creates Nutrition Camp
4. Happy Food
5. Great Happiness
6. Get Caught Reading This Summer
7. Meet the Greens
8. Seven Tips for Purposeful Parenting
9. Mindfulness
10. Inspirational Quote of the Week
1. Redirecting Children’s Behavior:
The Gentle Art of Parenting
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This six week, fifteen hour course teaches parents how to help children grow in a way that enhances self-esteem, teaches responsibility and promotes cooperation. At the completion, you will be able to:
* Discipline without yelling * Interact to build self-esteem
* Reduce sibling rivalry * Develop a sense of responsibility
* Redirect mistaken goals * Create an encouraging family
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Redirecting Children’s Behavior course
Schedule for Fall 2008
St. Luke’s Methodist
3471 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77027
6-Thurs. Eves; 6:30-9:00 PM
Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23
St. Martin’s Episcopal
717 Sage
Houston, TX 77056
6-Tues. Afternoons, 11:30-2:00 PM
Sept 23, 30, Oct, 7, 14, 21, 28
Post Oak School
4600 Bissonnet
Bellaire, TX 77401
Tues. Eves, 6:30-9:00 PM
Sept 23, 30, Oct, 7, 14, 21, 28
Westminster Methodist Church
5801 San Felipe
Houston. TX 77057
6-Wed. Eves, 6:30-9:00 PM
Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5
Course fee: $225 for one; $325 per couple
One-on-one Parent Coaching: $110/hr www.deborah-fry.com or www.incaf.com
The courses listed above will be taught by Deborah Fry Ph.D.; C.P.E.
For information and registration please call Deborah at 713-840-8663
2. Tips for Summer Learning
The John Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning provides eight tips for keeping kids sharp over the summer.
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3. Mom Creates Nutrition Camp
Jeanie Redick – a nutritionist and mother of five — thinks that what kids are eating today needs adjustment. She would like to eliminate prepackaged, artificial, fatty gunk with too much sugar, too much dye and too little nutritional value. The first step on her mission of health is a nutrition camp to teach children about healthy eating over the summer.
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4. Happy Food
Dr. Jim Sears, frequent contributor to the Dr. Phil show and star of the new health program The Doctors, touts the brain benefits of wild blueberries and why the unique fruit takes the top spot on his list of the best foods for promoting health, anti-aging and happiness.
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5. Great Happiness
By Steve Goodier
Not long ago I answered a telephone call from an old friend I’d not heard from for a long time. “Hi, Steve,” he said. “I just wanted to see how you’re getting along.” For whatever reason, our paths had simply not crossed for months. It was good to talk with him. I wondered why we hadn’t kept in touch better.
Toward the end of the conversation, he said, “If you need me in any way, I’ll be happy to help out.” And he meant it!
That call came at just the right time, as they so often do. I needed those words of encouragement. I hung up the phone feeling a satisfying lump of warmth in my chest. And that day I re-learned something important about life: life is primarily about people — not plans and schedules, not to-do lists and a million tasks left undone — it’s about people. To love and to know that we are loved is the greatest happiness of existence. And happiness seems to be something that is in short supply for too many of us! My friend reminded me that it is never enough just to love; we must also express it. What good are our affectionate feelings toward others if we don’t find ways to let them know?
George William Childs put it like this: “Do not keep the alabaster box of your love and friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.”
Happiness … may be just a phone call away.
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6. Get Caught Reading this Summer
Kids Off the Couch not only gives some great suggestions about watching Spiderwick Chronicles with your children, but also terrific tips on getting children excited about reading this summer. The site provides a list of suggested summer reading organized by age group.
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7. Meet the Greens
Meet the Greens is a site for kids about sustainability and green living created by the maker Frontline, NOVA, Masterpiece Theatre, Antiques Roadshow, ZOOM, Arthur and Curious George. The site promotes a strong educational mission to get kids thinking about the world and their place in it. Kids are encouraged to make informed choices and meaningful changes. Through the animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids’ mail, and regular updates, kids explore green living, sustainability, ecology, environmental care, and social equity. Kids are nudged to research, to challenge, to discover, and to take action where ever and whenever they can. Green Business named Meet the Greens as one of the “Ten Best Environmental Sites on the Web.”
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8. Seven Tips for Purposeful Parenting
June is National Purposeful Parenting Month, and Dr. Phil has seven strategies to help us parent purposefully.
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9. Mindfulness
A practice that assists us in parenting and living more purposefully is mindfulness. Mindfulness or being mindful is being aware of your present moment. You are not judging, reflecting or thinking. You are simply observing the moment in which you find yourself. As John Kabat-Zinn says, reflecting on a Japanese mindfulness puzzle, “Wherever you go, there you are.” The site includes a video of a meditation workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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10. Inspirational Quote of the Week
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” … Richard Bach
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