Connection Parenting Classes

with Joanne Foster

On this 7-week (14 hours) course you will learn:

• How to re-connect and stay connected with your child at any age
• How you were parented affects your parenting
• How to heal old wounds and bring more joy to parenting
• How children communicate and heal from their emotional hurts
• How you and your children can express anger effectively
• Why smacking and other forms of punishment are ineffective
• How to help your child to trust you and listen to you
• To decode and understand your child’s most difficult and challenging behaviours
• How to respond to a child’s needs instead of reacting to a behaviour

Week 1: Our Parenting Inheritance - What do we bring to parenting from our own childhood? Why is parenting today so much more difficult than it has ever been?

Week 2: Teaching Children Respect - The basis of all loving relationships is treating each other with respect. We teach children respect when we treat them with respect.

Week 3: Healing the Feeling Child - When we learn why "the crying is the healing, not the hurting" we gain a new level of understanding and skill in responding to crying, temper tantrums, frustration, anger and grief.

Week 4: The Gift of High Self-esteem - The way we treat children teaches them what to believe about themselves. We can learn to make the time we spend with children each day count positively for the rest of their life.

Week 5: Communication that Builds Relationship - Words can build or destroy a relationship. We can unlearn negative parent-talk and learn positive people-talk.

Week 6: Discipline through Decoding Behavior - Children don't always have the language to tell us what they need, so they act it out with their behavior. We can learn to recognize "needy" behavior and respond to the need instead of react to the behavior.

Week 7: The Needs of Parents - Parenting never was, and was never meant to be, a one or two person job. Children’s needs are best met by parents whose own needs are met. We can, in our own community, learn to create extended family who can support us in nurturing our children and ourselves.

Joanne Foster

Joanne lives with her husband James, three daughters and two grandchildren in South Australia. Click here to read her full bio.