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Focus for March: National Nutrition Month

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1. 2009 Redirecting Children’s Behavior Spring Schedule
2. Online Resource for School Subjects
3. When Role Models Make Mistakes
4. Read All About It!
5. Eat Well, Pay Less
6. No More Backtalk!
7. Two Pounds of Enthusiasm
8. Me, MySpace and I
9. Healthy Lifestyles
10. Inspirational Quote of the Week

1. see www.deborah-fry.com

2. Online Resource for School Subjects

From science to language arts, this website has resources for parents, teachers and students. Choose from your child’s grade level for activities, practice sheets, games and more.

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3. When Role Models Make Mistakes

There has been a lot in the news lately about alleged drug use by athletes and other “celebrity” role models. What do parents do when their child’s role model makes such a mistake? Tina Nocera of ParentalWisdom.com writes about this in her latest blog.

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4. Read All About It!

To make both history and print journalism come alive for children over the age of ten, pair a viewing of All the President’s Men with a visit to your local newspaper. The film follows Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two novice Washington Post reporters (played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), who were assigned to cover a burglary at the National Democratic Headquarters. Deep Throat, the reporters’ anonymous source, tells them “to follow the money” and the rest is, well, history. The visit to your local newspaper will fill the gap on how your morning paper ends up on your doorstep.

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5. Eat Well, Pay Less

Nonna Joann Bruso, author of Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater, is an expert on how to serve your family nutritious meals and save money on groceries at the same time. Sign up for her informative, free e-zine and receive her two reports on saving grocery dollars, perfect for National Nutrition Month.

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6. No More Backtalk!

Kathryn Kvols, author of the best-selling book and popular parenting course Redirecting Children’s Behavior, addresses backtalk, one of the biggest challenges in parenting. Her loving, respectful and effective suggestions provide solutions that create connected, calm families.

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7. Two Pounds of Enthusiasm
By Steve Goodier

“Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions, nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies. All these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily.”

I’m reminded of that great 18th century founder of Methodism, John Wesley. When asked how he drew such large crowds of people to hear him preach, he responded, “I set myself on fire and they come out and watch me burn!” People are drawn to enthusiasm. Where there is no enthusiasm, there is no passion. Where there is no
passion, there is no great living.

Are we meant simply to be satisfied with mediocre lives? From antiquity to the present, indifference has stolen from too many people the chance to do something important with their lives. Their indifference inspires little energy to pursue something truly worthwhile.

One woman went to the market and asked for two pounds of sausage. The clerk yelled at the butcher, “Two pounds of enthusiasm!” “Why do you call it that?” the bewildered customer asked. “Because he puts everything he’s got into it,” the clerk said.

In your daily activities; in your relationships with family, friends and colleagues; in anything you think is important – what would happen if you “put everything you’ve got” into it? Are you ready to find out?

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8. Me, MySpace and I

Dr. Larry Rosen explores parenting our computer savvy children in his new book Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation. Experts endorsing the book say, “Guided by extensive research and presented in easy-to-read language and real-life examples, Dr. Rosen’s book will enlighten parents. It helps bridge the generation divide between parents and their technologically literate kids.”

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9. Healthy Lifestyles

Food is our fuel and the strongest drug we take. How we sensitize our children to food and to exercise in their early years influences how they eat and play the rest of their lives. March is National Nutrition Month, and in this article, you will find seven ways to create a healthy lifestyle for your family.

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10. Inspirational Quote

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” … Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer

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Focus for December: Stress Free Family Holiday Month
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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RCB Winter /Spring 2009 Schedule
Illumination Arts
Once Upon a Family
Bucket Fillers
The Happiness Solution
The Awakening Process
Millennium Dream
Keep the Sparkle in Your Marriage Over the Holidays
Elf Yourself
Inspirational Quote of the Week

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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 and self mastery. 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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www.deborah-fry.com
One-on-one Parent Coaching: $110/hr 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

This holiday give your loved ones gifts that will nurture their spirit, build character and create deep family connections.  The Best You Can Be Foundation highly recommends the following five sites from the Foundation’s top 10 award-winning products:
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2. Illumination Arts

Illumination Arts publishes inspirational children’s books to “inspire the mind, touch the heart, and uplift the spirit.” These are some of the highest quality children’s books around. Each of the award-winning picture books has been brought to life through the thoughtful writing of amazing authors and the vibrant illustrations of talented artists.
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3. Once Upon a Family

Create lasting memories and deepen your connection with your family with gifts from Once Upon a Family.  Once Upon a Family’s mission is to help families connect in loving, joyful and meaningful ways. They offer elegant keepsakes, unique gifts and inspirational tradition ideas to simplify and enrich your family life.
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4. Bucket Fillers

“Bucket fillers” are those who help without being asked, give hugs and compliments, and generally spread their love and good feelings to others. The simple metaphor of a bucket helps even preschoolers understand the importance of consideration and love. With the mission of empowering children and shifting the focus to being in service, Bucket Fillers offers two books that make terrific holiday gifts for children.
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5. The Happiness Solution

The Happiness Solution: Finding Joy and Meaning In An Upside Down World is based on the groundbreaking idea that healing and happiness come in the form of stories, parables, and anecdotes. Author Dr. Alan Gettis has also written The Beak of a Duck, a book of children’s poetry, and Seven Times Down, Eight Times Up: Landing on Your Feet in an Upside Down World.
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6. The Awakening Process

The Awakening Process offers personal growth CDs for your family.
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7. Millennium Dream
By Steve Goodier

The daughter of comedian Groucho Marx was once denied admittance to an exclusive country club swimming pool with her friends because she and her family were not members. Realizing what had happened, embarrassed officials sent the Marx family an apology and an application to join. Groucho declined the invitation with the comment, “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”



Someone still tried to smooth over the incident by persuading the comedian to allow an application to be submitted for membership. The country club was embarrassed further when the application was denied. The reason? The Marx family was Jewish and the club was “restricted.

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True to form, Groucho wrote back: “My wife is not Jewish. Can she go swimming and let our daughter wade up to her waist?”



I love his use of humor, but Groucho effectively shines a spotlight on the prevalence and absurdity of prejudice. He must have felt, as did Sir Isaac Newton so many years earlier, that we “build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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I yearn for a time when we courageously break down those walls that divide and build wide bridges between one another. I long for a super-highway of compassion and acceptance spanning our differences that will unite us as one. As we ease into a new millennium, I dream of an age when people will finally be connected heart to heart and mind to mind.

My greatest desire is that we somehow learn what it means to be family.
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8. Keep the Sparkle in Your Marriage Over the Holidays

The stress of the holidays can sometimes interfere with marital intimacy. Nancy Wasson, Ph D, offers seven tips for keeping the sparkle in your relationship over this holiday season.  
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9. Elf Yourself

You, your family and even your pets can take part in this whimsical, online holiday card.  The site allows you to download up to five pictures that are used as the faces of elves that dance in unison to holiday music.  The cards can then be sent online to anyone.  It only takes a minute or two to create your card and best of all, the whole thing is fun and free!        
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10. Inspirational Quote

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” … Mohandas Gandhi

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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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Focus for June: National Effective Communication Month
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Fall 2008 Redirecting Children’s Behavior Schedule
2. Parenting Twins to Promote a Unique Sense of Self
3. Ways to Teach Our Children Financial Responsibility
4. Education that Nurtures Creativity
5. A Morsel of Hope
6. Life Lessons from Kung Fu Panda
7. Teaching Children about Marine Conservation
8. If You Build It
9. Marriage: The Impact of Complacency
10. Inspirational Quotes of the Week

1. Fall 2008 Redirecting Children’s Behavior Schedule
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.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. Parenting Twins to Promote a Unique Sense of Self

Parenting experts have long urged moms and dads to celebrate and respect the uniqueness of twins, while also cautioning against always treating them as an indistinguishable and inseparable pair. In this article, you will find tips on parenting twins to promote a unique sense of self as well as information on a new book that focuses on this topic.
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3. Ways to Teach Our Children Financial Responsibility

Financial responsibility is a vital life skill. This article not only offers eight simple ways to teach our children about finances but also a video discussion on the topic.
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4. Education that Nurtures Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an educational system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity. This is an amazing and insightful video.
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5. A Morsel of Hope
By Steve Goodier

Jean Kerr said, “Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” It is what we have when we know that we WILL eventually survive the night and bask in sunshine once again. It does not deny the present darkness, but it reminds us that dawn is coming.

Brigadier General Robinson Risner (“Robbie”) spent seven years as a POW at the “Hanoi Hilton,” as prisoners of war called their North Viet Nam compound. There he discovered the power of hope. He spent four and a half years of that time in isolation. He endured ten months of total darkness. Those months were the longest of his life. When they boarded up his little seven-by-seven foot cell, shutting out the light, he wondered if he was going to make it. He had already been under intense
physical and mental duress after years of confinement. And now, not a glimmer of light shone into his cell — or into his soul. Robbie spent hours a day exercising and praying. But at times he felt he could nothing but scream. Not wanting to give his captors the satisfaction of knowing they’d broken him, he stuffed clothing into his mouth to muffle the noise as he screamed at the top of his lungs.

One day Robbie got down on the floor and crawled under his bunk. He located a vent that let in outside air. As he pressed against the vent, he saw a faint glimmer of light reflected on the inside wall of the opening. Robbie put his eye next to the cement wall and discovered a minute crack in the construction. It allowed him to glimpse outside, but was so small that all he could see was one blade of grass. A
single blade of grass and a faint ray of light. But when he stared at the sight, he felt a surge of joy, excitement and gratitude like he hadn’t known in years. “It represented life, growth, and freedom,” he later said, “and I knew God had not forgotten me.” It was that tiny glimmer of hope that sustained Robbie through an unbearable ordeal.

I am amazed at the strength of the human spirit. It seems to run forever on nothing but a morsel of hope. But it still must be fed. I find myself busy keeping my body going – but I know it is just as important to feed my spirit. Even if all I have is a morsel of hope, for today that just may be enough.
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6. Life Lessons from Kung Fu Panda

This awesome mom has beautifully written ten inspirations on parenting that she took away from Kung Fu Panda. Who said this movie was just for children?
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7. Teaching Children about Marine Conservation

The problems facing our oceans are complex. Working together, we can make a difference. We can teach our children about our environmental impact on the ocean, and in this article, the Nature Conservancy offers ten ways we can make a difference. With summer here and more family trips to the beaches, rivers and lakes, these are great tips to teach our children.
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8. If You Build It

The website which pairs a film with a family adventure, Kids Off the Couch, has paired the classic family film Field of Dreams with attending a major league baseball game. The suggestions, tips and conversation starters are terrific.
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9. Marriage: The Impact of Complacency

Nancy Wasson, Ph.D., says that complacency is involved in the demise of numerous marriages every year because “It can drain the excitement, passion, and energy out of a marriage.” Read her tips as well as a book recommendation in this article.
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10. Inspirational Quotes of the Week

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.” … Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” … Lin Yutang

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1. Summer 2008
Redirecting Children’s Behavior:
The Gentle Art of Parenting

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



Redirecting Children’s Behavior course
Schedule for summer 2008

Post Oak School
4600 Bissonnet
Bellaire, TX 77401
6-Tues.Evenings; 6:30-9:00 PM
June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8

Course fee: $225 for one; $325 per couple

One-on-one Parent Coaching: $110/hr 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. Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research

From the Harvard School of Public Health Parenting Project comes Raising Teens, a free downloadable book for parents. In Raising Teens, the Project put particular emphasis on identifying those conclusions about the parenting of adolescents about which there is widespread agreement among researchers and practitioners. You will find a set of “Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents”, with a list of strategies for each.  Also featured is a list of “Ten Tasks of Adolescence”, which delineates the main aspects of adolescent development that parents and other adults need to be aware of and support. 
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3. Guidelines for Parent-Child Communication

Good communication is an important parenting skill.   This page provides useful information and techniques for parents on how to communicate effectively with their children.  Whether you are parenting a toddler or a teenager, good communication is the key to building self-esteem as well a mutual respect.
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4. Talk so Children Listen

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk is a classic on parent-child communication and is perfect for June, which is National Communication Month. Authors Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish provide a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your family. The “Reminder” pages, helpful cartoon illustrations, and excellent exercises will improve your ability as a parent to talk and problem-solve with your children. The solid tools provided are appropriate for kids of all ages. The link takes you directly to amazon.com to purchase How to Talk.
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5. Six Traits of Healthy Families
By Steve Goodier

It takes some adjusting to live in a family – like changing your attitudes about children and the kitchen. I used to by picky. But my philosophy now is more like Erma Bombeck’s: if it walks out of the refrigerator, let it go!

Some people never make the adjustments. George Burns used to say, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” But for most of us, happiness is making the most of our family life, in whatever form and shape that family exists.

Family consultant Dolores Curran published what she considered “Traits of a Healthy Family” (Mass Market Paperback, 1984), drawn from responses of more than 500 professionals who work with families. Here are a few of the top qualities shared by families considered “healthy.”

* Communication and listening. Are you working at this?

* Affirmation and support. A southern (USA) migrant worker told a sociologist that “home is a place to go back to if things get rough out there.” If you cannot receive affirmation at home, where else are you going to get it?

* A sense of play. Charlie Shedd says, “Whenever parents ask me, ‘How can I keep my children off drugs?’ I say, ‘Have fun.’” The family that plays together stays together.

* Shared responsibility. Everyone helps out; everyone pitches in.

* Trust. The fastest way to drive a wedge between family members is to violate it.

* Shared religious core. Does your family share similar spiritual goals?

No family is perfect, but these six traits should help any of our
families to be happier and healthier!
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6. Amber Alert International Safety Registry

With the mission of helping parents keep their children safe through innovative technology, Amber Alert International Safety Registry (AAISR) allows parents to input critical information that can be made quickly available to law enforcement in the event a child goes missing. Parents enter photographs as well as crucial information. This information may be downloaded to a flash drive, downloaded to a home computer or quickly provided to law enforcement from the AAISR website.
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7. What’s Wrong with What We Eat?

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.
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8. INCAF in the News

Kathryn Kvols, founder of the International Network for Children and Families, was interviewed and quoted in an article in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on May 22nd.
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9. Parent-to-Parent Communication

Effective parent-to-parent communication is foundational in a family. In this informative article, the Center for Effective Parenting offers practical suggestions for improving parental communication.
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10. Inspirational Quotes of the Week

“Life is the sum of all your choices.” … Albert Camus

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” … Victor Frankl

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” … William James

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