Linda teaches the workshop in seven, two-hour sessions (14 hours-total instruction time) and it covers all the aspects of parenting, from the early toddler years through the time when kids go out on their own. By that time, if we've done our job as parents, they're ready to face the world. It's a quick ride (though sometimes it doesn't feel that way), and anything we can learn along the way to be more effective is a good thing.

During the workshop participants will:

• See video tapes of Jim Fay, Dr. Foster Cline and Dr. Charles Fay telling stories (these always provide some laughs)
• Listen to Linda talk Love and Logic, (there'll be a few laughs here too)
• Do written exercises in the participant workbook
• Ask questions about specific parenting issues
• Problem solve with other class members
• Do a little role-playing
• Have more fun than you're supposed to have in a parenting workshop

The curriculum for the seven sessions breaks down like this:

Week One:
Introductions, course objectives, the four steps to responsibility, parents role modeling, preparing children for the real world, values, use of empathy, setting limits.

Week Two:
Sharing control, opportunities for thinking and decision-making by using delayed consequences, bedtime, leaving on time in the morning.

Week Three:
Control battles, neutralizing arguing with Love and Logic one-liners, sharing control with choices and enforceable statements, parent/child patterns.

Week Four:
Parenting styles (helicopters, drill sergeants and consultants), guiding children to own and solve their own problems.

Week Five:
Setting limits, fighting words vs. thinking words, more enforceable statements, strategic training sessions, the value of chores (and getting them done), sibling rivalry.

Week Six:
Consequences vs. punishment, designing consequences that are logical, the importance of empathy, responding to defiance and disrespect vs. protest, academics and schoolwork.

Week Seven:
Bickering and fighting, enforcing the completion of chores.

There is plenty of time for questions and answers, and many participants feel that this is the most educational part of the workshop. At least it's nice to know that we're not the only ones experiencing a certain situation at home.

About the 9 Essential Skills of the Love and Logic Classroom Workshop, low stress strategies for highly successful educators.
(9 module workshop for educators)

This multimedia professional development program has all the elements to help faculty and staff meet the ever-changing challenges they face in the classroom. Both new and experienced teachers in all grade levels will find that this comprehensive program has all the essential ingredients needed to help you enjoy teaching. Once teachers complete all nine modules, they will have learned how to:

• Increase student self-concept
• Establish a classroom climate where students act responsibly
• Use positive discipline techniques in the classroom and school-wide
• Use new tools for managing disruptive students
• Create an environment where students will want to behave and learn

MODULE ONE:   Learn to Neutralize Arguing using One-Liners

MODULE TWO:  Learn to apply appropriate consequences for misbehavior by Delaying the Consequence

MODULE THREE:   Learn to keep students in the thinking state by using Empathy as the first response.

MODULE FOUR:  Learn how to use Recovery for the chronically misbehaving student.

MODULE FIVE:  Learn how to create and maintain a Positive Relationship with even the most difficult student.

MODULE SIX:  Learn the power of using Enforceable Statements to gain cooperation.

MODULE SEVEN:  Learn how to share control and diminish power struggles with offering Choices.

MODULE EIGHT:  Learn Preventative Interventions to maintain the learning environment at all times.

MODULE NINE:  Learn how to guide students to own and solve the problems they create on a daily basis.