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Parenting Class Quick Facts
  • Taught by
    Richard Prinz,
    Student Advocate
    and Licensed
    Marriage and
    Family Therapist
  • Dates:
    September 25 -
    November 6, 2013
  • Times:
    Wednesdays, from
    5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
  • Location: Library
  • Email to register:
    richard_prinz@
    fuhsd.org
    OR
  • Call:(408)366-7638
  • Only cost is the $15 book
Parenting Class
Interested in learning more about teens and parenting choices?
The Monta Vista PARENTING CLASS, Fall Session, will be held from September 25 through November 6, 2013. This series will be 7 sessions long, held on Wednesdays from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The classes will be held in the library, and is free to all community members. You can register by emailing Richard Prinz at richard_prinz@fuhsd.org. If you don't have email, please call (408)366-7638 to register. Questions are welcomed.

 

The classes are based on the STEP program. STEP stands for Systematic Training for Effective Parenting. This program is specifically geared for teens. It has been around awhile and has proven helpful to many. For example, it asks if you might have a "giving orders", "giving in" or "giving choices" parenting style and what the effects on you and your child these styles might have. Which style do you find promotes the kind of adult you want your child to be? Topics include: Understanding your teen, emotions (yours and theirs), encouragement, identifying whose problem is it--yours or your teen's, communication (listening, expressing your feelings and exploring with your teen alternative ways of thinking and behaving), and discipline (developing responsibility). You are more than welcome to attend more than one series of classes. Because the program involves changing yourself, it helps to hear the ideas again and practice more. Also, your experience can be helpful to others. Participants need to come to all, or close to all, of the classes. There will be homework. There will be teens in attendance as well.

 

Course Book: STEP: Parenting Teenagers, copyright 1998, by Dinkmeyer and McKay. STEP Publishers. This book is required. Please purchase it and read the first chapter prior to the first class. Copies will be made available for sale a week before the first class.
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