The Self-Instructional Nurturing Parenting Program® for Families and Professionals

The Self-Instructional Nurturing Parenting Program is an easy to use resource that allows parents and professionals to learn the philosophy and skills of Nurturing Parenting in their home or office.

Learn Nurturing Parenting as a Professional

Did you know research tells us there are three important conditions to helping families learn new parenting skills?

• Using a validated, proven program like the Nurturing Parenting Programs.
• Selecting the right families for the right parenting program, and
• Competent staff to implement the program.

The Self-Instructional Nurturing Parenting Program is a great way to build your professional competence as a parent educator.

Professionals teaching parenting education need to update their parenting attitudes, knowledge, and skills to facilitate the growth of the families they’re teaching. Use the proven principles of Nurturing Parenting at home with your own family to improve your skills as a professional parent educator.

Learn Nurturing Parenting as a Parent

• Develop your nurturing parenting skills at home at a pace you set.
• Learn nurturing parenting skills together with your spouse or partner.
• Enjoy the benefits of learning how to grow and bond as a family.
• Develop a consistent, nurturing home by involving grandparents and other extended family members in learning the philosophy of nurturing parenting.
• Easy-to-understand without any pressure of attending a weekly group setting.

In the Self-Instructional Nurturing Parenting Program you will learn:

• To establish a workable plan of discipline that includes creating family rules; identifying your family morals, the right and wrongs you want your children to learn; developing a strong set of family values that will help guide you and your children during the challenging times of peer pressure and media pressure.
• To develop a sense of empathy by learning how to care for yourself and each other; how to properly communicate feelings, opinions, and thoughts; the art of disagreeing and arguing; and how to recognize feelings in others and encourage children to express their feelings in appropriate ways.
• To develop the positive self-worth of all family members by learning how to substitute negative labels and perceptions for positive ones through praise, touch and nurturing routines.

Some of the topics in the Self-Instructional Program include:

• Nurturing Parenting
• Developing family morals, values, and rules
• Personal power
• Improving children’s self-worth
• Praising children and their behavior
• Helping children get their needs met
• Handling anger and stress
• Problem solving, negotiation and compromise
• Why parents spank their children
• Discipline, rewards and punishment
• Choices and consequences
• Owning and communicating feelings
• Ignoring irritating behaviors
• Alcohol and substance abuse and parenting
• Sexuality, personal space, and respect

The Self-Instructional Program includes:

• Resource Guide – a print resource that provides information on Nurturing Parenting philosophy and strategies
• DVD – a visual resource that demonstrates the “how-to” of Nurturing Parenting
• CD – an audio resource that serves to reinforce the knowledge and skills presented in the Resource Guide and the DVD

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