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• Calendar of Activities

• Classes & Support Groups  (call to check current availability and times and locations for the following classes & groups)

  1. Single Mom Support Group

  2. Living with Toddlers

  3. Early Childhood STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting)

  4. School-age STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting)

  5. STEP for teenagers (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting)

  6. Directions for Dads

  7. Parenting Wisely

  8. Active Parenting of Teens

  9. P.E.R.C. Parenting Effectiveness in Resolving Conflict

• On-line courses available 

  • “FireWorks” Anger Management in Adult-Child Relationships is an online non-credit course that examines anger management with a special emphasis on adult-child relationships. 
  • “Responsive Discipline:  Effective Tools for Parents” is an informal personal study course that provides tools for guiding and nurturing children from early childhood through adolescence. 
  • www.partnersinpolicymaking.com/education  is a 3-hour self-directed e-learning course to help parents with children with developmental disabilities better understand and maximize the benefits of special education services and inclusion for their children.  There is a quiz at the end of each module and a final exam at the end.  You will receive a free graduation gift for completing the course.

• Parenting Tips

  • 10 Steps to Cool Down  

  • 10 Steps to Teach a Child Self-Control

  • 11 Ways to Make Shopping Easier with Children

  • “Born Learning”

  •  Zero to Three “Parenting A-Z”

  • University of Pittsburgh “You and Your Child” parenting guides

  • Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) positive parenting tips:

  • “Circle of Parents”

• Family Resource Library 

10 Steps to Cool Down

1. Take a deep breath. And another. Then remember you are the adult.
2. Close your eyes and imagine you're hearing what your child is about to hear.
3. Press your lips together and count to ten. Or better yet, to 20.
4. Exercise to release tension.
5. Phone a friend.
6. If someone can watch your child, go outside and take a walk.
7. Take a hot bath or splash cold water on your face.
8. Turn on some music; maybe even sing along.
9. Drink a glass of cold water.
10. Hancock County Children's Council (207) 667-5304

10 Steps to Teach a Child Self-Control

1. Teach self control by your example.
2. Set routines for bedtime, meals, or chores.
3. Explain reasons for your rules.
4. Let your child help make rules.
5. Let your child help decide consequences for broken rules.
6. Try to understand your child's feelings.
7. If your child breaks a rule, control your anger.
8. If you lash out, apologize.
9. Compliment your child often.
10. Hancock County Children's Council (207) 667-5304

For a list of Library Materials that you can sign out at Hancock County Children's Council, <please click here> 
 

11 Ways to Make Shopping Easier with Children

1. Plan shopping trips when children are not tired or hungry. Go when you are rested, as well as when the child is rested. Don't wait until the end of a tiring day.
2. Discuss the rules before entering store. "When we leave, you can select a package of ____________ if you remember the rules."
3. Bring a nutritious snack for child to eat during the shopping trip. (raisins, cut-up apples, nuts, etc.)
4. Bring a favorite blanket, toy or book from home to help make him feel secure.
5. Give child a responsibility. (Help select the hardest apples, find the cheapest green beans, match the coupons with the labels.)
6. Select a secret word or signal which you can use to get the immediate attention of the other.
7. Don't let the child out of your sight. Hold hands. Let him hold onto or help steer the grocery cart.
8. Reinforce appropriate behavior. Talk with her, play with her, engage her in decision making process.
9. Encourage her to talk, watch, listen, think.
10. Make a game out of it. "Do you remember what animals bacon comes from; what cereal can you see in a purple box; find the peas in the red can, etc."
11. Play "I see something" in the check-out lane and have the children guess what you see; find the things in an aisle that are red, in cans, are for eating, are not for eating, etc.

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