8 weeks • 2.5 hours per session
What are the signs of a child in trouble?
How can you cultivate resilience in your child?
This course builds on the material in Power to Parent 1: The Vital Connection and Power to Parent II: Helping Children Grow Up.
Topics include:
- The distinctives of the developmental approach
- Recognizing the signs of a child in trouble
- The signs of stuckness
- The signs of a vulnerability too much to bear
- The behavioural signs of a child in trouble
- Understanding the roots of behaviour
- The challenges of parenting a sensitive child
- How to soften a child`s defenses
- Why children need to become resilient
- How to recover lost tears
- Why it is important to take the lead as a parent
- How we can make it safe for our child to depend on us
- What discipline methods do not work when your child is stuck
- Ways to compensate for the deficits and dysfunction of stuck kids
- How to handle incidents
- How to become the parent your child needs
