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Sound Discipline supports parents. Read below for tips & tools, resources and events in our area.
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Welcome to our new newsletter, focused on parenting support and resources. Do you have ideas for content or resources we should include? Email us.
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In October, our Sound Discipline social media and blogs were focused on KINDNESS. It is as important to teach our children kindness as it is to teach them things like reading, math or safety. Some children have a harder time reading social cues of others or putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. It is up to us as adults to model and teach how to be kind.
Read more on our Sound Discipline Blog for 7 ideas on how to model kindness for the children in your life.
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We Teach Children....We Do As Adults
In each newsletter, we will highlight the lessons we teach educators in our Sound Discipline schools, and how parents can integrate those lessons at home.
We Teach Everyone:
How our brains work to keep us safe
How to be aware of our bodies and emotions
How to communicate in helpful, not hurtful ways
How to work as a community to solve problems
How to repair our mistakes
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Communicate in Helpful Ways
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We Teach Children
Bugs & Wishes or “I Feel…”
When children get frustrated, it’s helpful for them to have practiced how to communicate their feelings and needs. You may hear your child say, “It bugs me when ____ and I wish you would _____.” Or, they may say, “I feel ____ and I wish ____.” In our classrooms, we teach students how to say this to another student and how to listen and respond, even if they disagree with what the other person is saying.
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We Do as Adults
Ask Questions
It’s fast and easy to tell children what to do. Yet, that often makes kids want to do the opposite of what we want. Brains grow when they are asked questions so you may hear adults at our school speaking differently. Instead of saying, “Go get your folders,” You may hear, “What do you need so we can start our math lesson?” Asking questions empowers children to build independent thinking.
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Parenting with Positive Discipline - 6-week class
Parents are often challenged by sibling fights, whining, chores, bedtime problems, homework and screen time arguments and other issues. This course provides skills and tools to get to the core of conflict and bring more peace and joy to your home.
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This 6-week Parenting with Positive Discipline series provides parents with tools and skills to strike an important balance between being kind and firm in a fun, relaxing and supportive atmosphere.
Jan 17 - Feb 28 (Skip Feb 21) Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Greenwood Senior Center, Seattle.
Register here.
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Are you interested in bringing a Parenting class
to your school or community?
We are currently scheduling for the 2018-2019 school year.
Contact mary@sounddiscipline.org.
We offer two options for parenting classes for your community:
1) Our 1 time, 2-hour Parenting with Courage and Connection workshop, an introduction to Parenting with Positive Discipline. This workshop can be done for up to 100 participants.
2) The 6-week Parenting with Positive Discipline series provides parents with tools and skills to strike an important balance between being kind and firm in a fun, relaxing and supportive atmosphere.
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Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way
Would you like to be certified to provide parenting classes to your community? Teaching Parenting is a step-by-step approach to starting and leading experientially based parenting groups using the Positive Discipline and Adlerian philosophy. Build community and become a parent leader!
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This workshop consists of a 2-hour evening parenting workshop and 2 full days of class. (The 2-hour evening parenting workshop portion of the class only is open to the public and offered by Sound Discipline at no cost to the host school's community.)
March 14, Thursday 6:30-8:30pm, White Center Heights Elementary School, Seattle.
March 15 & 16, Friday & Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm, KCHA, Joe Thomas Community Room, Seattle.
Register here.
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