Can your child make you feel as if you are out of control? Can your child pull your strings and make you dance to the beat of their drum? Are you so frustrated with your child’s behavior that you simply do not know what to do?

ParentingPower is a parenting class focused on effective discipline for effective parenting for today’s single parent. It places the responsibility and authority for the behavior management of children back where it belongs – with the parent. It provides special parenting skills for single parents who find themselves facing the overwhelming task of being the sole disciplinarian.

Target Audience:

• Single Parents
• Two Parent Households
• Teen Parents
• Foster/Adoptive Parents
• Grandparents raising grandchildren as single parents
• Grandparents raising grandchildren in a two - parent household
• Court Referred Parents
• Any Parent

For a long time, thoughts and discussions regarding discipline centered on the idea of punishment. Society considered discipline as a necessary means to eliminate unwanted behavior. New attitudes about discipline now encourage parents to focus on the positive side of discipline as well which includes noticing and reinforcing positive, desirable behavior.

A major part of parenting is teaching children that all behavior has consequences. Failure to let children experience consequences for their behavior will spoil them and leave them unprepared for the realities of life. While avoiding this outcome is imperative, harsh rigid discipline is not the answer either.

Today’s discipline focuses on building strong cohesive relationships between parents and children that focus on respect for authority and appropriate behavior management. Misbehavior is discouraged and dealt with utilizing appropriate consequences while good behavior is both encouraged and noticed but expected as opposed to rewarded.

There is much discussion about the changes in the behavior of today’s children. Experts disagree as to whether or not we should blame these changes on bad parenting or negative societal influences. Has parental authority been lost in the movement that focuses on children’s rights and children’s choices? If so, ParentingPower is here to place parental authority back where it belongs – with parents.

ParentingPower begins with teaching parents that the purpose of their authority is not to provide them with power and control over their children but to provide leadership, teaching and guidance built on a foundation of love and respect. Rules are given as guidelines for appropriate behavior not as weights which we use to drag our children down.

ParentingPower teaches single parents a diverse and effective approach to discipline. There are a variety of disciplinary tactics and ParentingPower addresses them all. It also focuses in individualized disciplinary plans for each child in the home.

ParentingPower teaches single parents how to handle the burnout they will face as the sole disciplinarian in the home. It not only teaches effective discipline but also educates participants on the pitfalls and consequences of utilizing inconsistent, ineffective, inappropriate and dangerous methods of discipline. Finally, it examines the difference between discipline and abuse.

Participants who enter a ParentingPower workshop feeling overwhelmed will leave feeling equipped and empowered.