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Sound Discipline supports parents. Read below for tips and tools, resources and events in our area.
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In March, we are focused on RELIABILITY and DEPENDABILITY.
By creating structure, routine and making life (mostly) predictable for our kids we build the foundation for trust that they need to eventually grow into reliable adults.
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When young people experience trusting, reliable relationships with caring adults, they build skills for healthy relationships that they will use for their whole lives. Read more on our Sound Discipline Blog for practical ideas on how to build the attributes of reliability and dependability with your kids. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for a daily dose of tools, ideas and inspiration.
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We value your referrals and have created a new program to show our appreciation! If you refer a friend or colleague to any Sound Discipline workshop, and they enter your name and email address when they register on Eventbrite, you will be placed in a monthly drawing for a digital package of community building/self-regulation tools. Thank you for helping us spread the word.
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We Teach Children....We Do As Adults
In each newsletter, we 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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Building Community with Students
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We Teach Children
“I Belong and I Matter”
Children do better when they feel better about themselves. We all feel better when we have a sense that we belong in the community and are valued. To foster this in our families and classrooms, we:
*Give and receive compliments
*Take on meaningful jobs
*Listen to each other’s questions and problems
*Brainstorm many solutions to one problem
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We Do as Adults
Model Collaboration Skills
Living and learning in community together is not easy. There are essential skills we intentionally teach, so that all students and family members can contribute:
*Create class and family agreements about how we work together
*Build routines with ideas from children that are respectful to them and our family and community
*Practice listening, respecting other people's perspectives, and seeing our differences positively
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Are you a parent in a Renton Innovation Zone (RIZ) school?
Parents of children in Bryn Mawr, Campbell Hill, Lakeridge, and Highlands Elementary Schools can attend Parenting with Positive Discipline 2-hour introductory workshops and 6-week series in March and April at no cost. Space is limited and RSVP's are not mandatory, but are requested if parents would like to use childcare and translation services.
See all available classes here.
Email mary@sounddiscipline.org if you have any questions.
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Parenting Teens with Positive Discipline - 6-week class
Are you and your teen(s) seeing the world differently?
Would you like to:
- Improve communication?
- Increase accountability and integrity?
- Help them learn from their mistakes and provide a path to recover from mistakes?
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This 6-week class provides tools for parents that teach youth valuable social and life skills. It differs from a general Positive Discipline Parenting class in its focus on adolescent brain development. We provide parents with the understanding and resources for effective parenting through the teen years.This 6-week Parenting Teens 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.
This class is open to parents of middle and high school aged youth (11+).
Tuesdays, Mar 26 - May 7 (skip Apr 9), 6:30-9:00 pm. Greenwood Senior Center, Seattle. Please register by March 18.
Register here.
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Great Online Resource for Parents of Teens
Local Parent Educator and founder of Joyful Courage, Casey O'Roarty, recently hosted the Parenting Teens With Positive Discipline Audio Summit. This online summit is a deep dive into the messiness of parenting through the teen years and beyond. Each of the 15 featured guests speaks candidly from both their wisdom as parent educators, as well as their real life experience of raising their own teens. Topics include Understanding Teen Brain Development, Supporting Teens with Screens in the World, Birds & Bees for Parents of Teens
and many more.
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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.)
Upcoming opportunities to take this course:
Spokane - April 11-13, Thursday, 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Hallet Elementary School, Spokane. Friday & Saturday 8am - 4:30pm, Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, Spokane.
Seattle - July 8-10, Monday 6:30-8:30pm, Location TBD, Seattle. Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00 am-5:00 pm, 2100 Building, Seattle.
Register here.
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