Parenting Classes
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ProActive Management Consulting, LLC ., Counseling and Advocacy Services Parenting Classes are designed to improve family functioning by stabilizing living arrangements, promoting reunification when clinically proven appropriate.Structured meetings/classes designed to offer positive and effective parenting tools/skills. Such as, stress management, anger management, time management.
Definition of Services
Good parenting is about from the moment awareness of impending parenthood, the focus is how to help the fetus to grow into a healthy baby, a healthy baby into a healthy infant, toddler, pre-school child, adolescent and adult that is a self assured human being to meet his or her greatest potential.
Although parenting and the skills used to do it are culturally bound, there are core skills and concepts. This is most important when parenting skills are taught to people of varying developmental stages with children in various developmental stages. The context of what, when, where and how people choose to parent is quite important if the developmental needs of their children are to be met successfully. The PMCCAS Nurturing Parenting program is comprehensive and holistic in its methodology. It will include the following:
Assessment of parenting and child-rearing attitudes/practices.
The psychology and physical effects pregnancy has on both parents and their parenting attitudes.
Psycho-education to provide information on child development throughout the life-span.
Skills practice in meeting developmental milestones of children
Experiential learning to assist in awareness and self-examination of childhood experiences and how it affects attitudes about being a parent.
Opportunity to interact with other parents, both with their children and without them, in a group setting to foster increased insight into parenting issues, increase empathy towards others, increase modeling of desired behaviors, increase hope and increase experimentation with new parenting behaviors. (2006, www.nurturingparenting.com., Bavolek, Stephen J., Ph.D. The role of experiential learning in enhancing education in parenting., Family Development Resources,Inc.)
Curricula Design Model
The curricula is divided into categories based on the Nurturing Parenting model. Pregnant women and fathers will participate in the Prenatal Families class focusing on child care and the effect pregnancy has on the individual, couple or family dynamics. Parents with infants, toddlers and preschoolers will learn about 4 months – 4 years old child development, age appropriate discipline, preparation for school for pre-school children and how to meet their emotional, mental and physical needs. Parents with school age children, 5-11 year old, will focus on the physical, emotional and mental development of their children, their internal thought processes as they grow, the importance of parental interaction, school achievement affected by this age and what to do about it, positive discipline and self identity issues. Parents of adolescents will also become aware of adolescent developmental growth, the developmental tasks that should be accomplished during this period, the intellectual and academic challenges, adolescent decision making process and how as a parent you can positively influence your adolescent. An additional class will focus on the teen parent with similar components focused on the child’s age, the parent’s developmental stage as an adolescent parent and it’s effect on parenting children as well as parenting skills development to enhance and practice parenting skills. All curricula will have a positive discipline component, a specific parenting skills set, group process work, as well as role plays of both appropriate and inappropriate parenting behaviors.
The sessions required for each class and the numbers of participants are as follows:
| Prenatal families | 12 sessions for 2 ½ hrs | 12 families (max) |
| Parents of infants, Toddlers and preschoolers |
24 sessions for 2 ½ hrs | 12 families (max) |
| Parents of school age children Ages 5-11 |
16 sessions for 2 ½ hrs | 12 families (max) |
| Parents of adolescents | 14 sessions for 2 ½ hrs | 12 families (max) |
| Teen Parents and families | 28 sessions for 2 ½ hrs | 12 families (max) |