Workshops/How To Work With Families

• Child Focus
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Foster Parent Training - Options For Youth
• Inclusion in Schools: Real and Perceived Views of Full Inclusion - Dark Ages? Bright Futures
• Infants and Toddlers in Your Care: How to Nurture 0-3 Year-Olds in Group Care and at Home
• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Preparing Personnel to Work With Parents and Families
• Reducing Stress in the Lives of Young Chlldren
• Sample Forms for Teachers
• Ask Dr. Susan

Parents May Choose Discipline Methods Based On Gentle Teaching To Help Children At Home

 

 

Job and Family Services - Foster Family Training

The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

 

ABC FAMILY MEETING “WAY”

 

A.Alwaystalk about what you like about your child before you identify what is wrong or what needs to be changed.

 

   “You got ready on time, good!”   

Identify what is in need of work at a family meeting. – “You need to be downstairs at 7:00 a.m. without any reminders from me.”

 

No Buts, No Zaps, No Zingers

 

Identify what usually happens just before the situation takes place.

 

 “Your alarm didn’t go off, you didn’t set it.”

       Write a list of all the things that happen and talk about each one at a family meeting. 

 

       Write a plan

Have a conversation with children about what they like to do in their free time and write them down.  Write them down.  Talk to them about how they can earn these things as privileges, and what they don’t get if they don’t comply with the plan.