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Bringing Out the Best in Your Children and Teens:
A Solution-Oriented Parenting Approach

Children and teens today are faced with many challenges and choices that can contribute to added stress and conflict in their relationships with their parents. It is crucial that parents are flexible, keep the lines of communication open, and maintain their sense of humor. In this "hands on" presentation, parents will learn an upbeat and strengths-based parenting approach that can gain their children's and teens' cooperation, accentuate their talents and responsible behaviors, and rapidly resolve their difficulties.

Parents will leave this presentation armed with the following effective parenting tools:

• Speaking the language of change to foster cooperative behavior
• Changing your viewing to open the door for multiple parenting solutions
• Tapping your children's and teens' strengths and resources to rapidly resolve their difficulties
• Positive consequences as a self-esteem building alternative to punishment
• "Out-of-the-box" effective parenting strategies for rapidly altering the most challenging of child and adolescent behavior problems

This presentation will be highly interactive and parents will have ample opportunities to ask questions and present some of the challenges they currently face with their children and teens.