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Parenting Skills Workshop Series
This is a program for parents/caregivers who want to improve the way they
talk with their children. The skills of:
* Encouragement
* Can Do
* Choices
* Self-Control
* Respecting Feelings
are
explained, discussed and practiced. The workshop helps parents understand
how children's behavior is affected by the way parents talk with them.
Workshops meet for 8 weeks, with each session lasting 2 hours. This 8-workshop
series is offered 6 times each year at locations throughout Tompkins County.
The workshops are free, and free childcare often is provided.
Upcoming
Dates:
"Parenting: the Hardest
Job in the World"
Groton Elementary
School, Groton NY
Wednesdays, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12, 19, 6:30-8:30pm
Workshop Outline (PDF)
Join Mary Hicks and Elizabeth Wolff for this free 8-week
Parenting Skills Workshop Series. Share your strengths and learn new strategies.
Learn to talk with your children using the five communication skills.
Free classes, family meal, and childcare are provided.
For more information or to register,
please contact: Anna Steinkraus at 272-2292, ext. 145 or email ams69@cornell.edu
NOTE: no one may join the workshop after the 2nd session (Oct. 8).
For free childcare, please register by September 26.
Co-sponsored by Tompkins County Cooperative Extension, Groton's Families!,
NYS Children's & Family Trust Fund (NYSOCFS), Groton Even Start and
Groton Elementary School.
"Why
Do You Parent the Way You Do?"
Greater
Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany Street
Thursdays, Oct. 2, 9, 23,
30, 29, Nov. 6, 13 at 6:30-8:30pm
Facilitators: Travis Winter & Lisa Pate
Many factors influence our children
and how we parent. Why do we do what we do? Why do we make the decisions
we make? Workshop discussion topics include:
Parenting styles and discipline, child development, cultural influences,
and
environmental issues. This workshop series
includes free classes, snacks and childcare. For
more information or to register, please contact: Anna Steinkraus at 272-2292,
ext. 145 or email:
ams69@cornell.edu NOTE:
October 9 is the last day to join this workshop.
For free childcare, please register by September 26.
Co-sponsored
by Tompkins County Cooperative Extension and Greater Ithaca Activities
Center.
Download a brochure
describing this program (177K PDF).
"Why
Do You Parent the Way You Do?"
Dryden
Elementary School, 36 Union Street, Dryden
Mondays, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 at 6:00 -8:00 p.m.
Facilitators:
Mary Hicks & Cathy Gee
Many
factors influence our children and how we parent. Why do we do what we
do? Why do we make the decisions we make? Workshop discussion topics include:
Parenting styles and discipline, child development, cultural influences,
and
environmental issues. This workshop series
includes free classes, snacks and childcare. For
more information or to register, please contact: Anna Steinkraus at 272-2292,
ext. 145 or email:
ams69@cornell.edu NOTE:
October 27 is the last day to join this workshop. For free childcare,
please register by September 26.
Co-sponsored
by Tompkins County Cooperative Extension, Dryden Central Schools, &
Dryden PTA.
Download
a brochure describing this
program (177K PDF).
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