Please feel free to contact Courtney Frye Canario to share more thoughts and suggestions. [Canarioc@bpsmail.org]
Let us work together to support eachother through the challenges of good parenting!
"I like this idea for parents. I want to share how parents need to be Active Listeners, rather than Passive Listeners. Drop what you are doing and listen. Kids have the ability to sense when a parent is engaged in listening."
I'd like to also reccommend a good read:
Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children (Paperback)
by Thomas Gordon (Author) "Everybody blames parents for the troubles of youth and for the troubles that young people appear to be causing society..."
--A Local Parent