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CICC's Confident Parenting Program Helps Prevent Child Abuse Excerpt : April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month as well as the National Month of the Young Child. Both serve to focus public attention on the needs of children and their families, particularly the April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month as well as the National Month of the Young Child. Both serve to focus public attention on the needs of children and their families, particularly the need for quality parenting education. Lack of parenting skills and the frustration that comes from not knowing how to deal with and manage a child's behavior significantly increases the risk of child abuse. Parents often feel controlled by their children's misbehaviors because they do not know how to set limits effectively. They may pay so much attention when their children misbehave that they forget to notice the cooperative and peaceful times. The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring's Confident Parenting Program teaches parents how to pay attention to and how to increase the times when their children's behavior is good. It also teaches effective limit-setting skills so that parents “ Black Belt Parenting-The Art of Raising your Child for Success" Also see : Effective Parenting Techniques - How to use Time Out Successfully Dr Phil in his effective parenting survey of 17,000 people found that the two top challenges facing parents were making punishment work and improving school performance. In my experience as a class teacher and coach I have noticed that the...read more What Divorce Parenting Practices is Best Appropriate for School-Age Children? It is being said that how bad or how well children go through the divorce depends on how the situation is handled. And believe me when I tell you that there is an appropriate divorce parenting practices for children of any age for them to be...read more will not feel victimized by their children's misbehavior. The program provides parents effective skills to manage such child behaviors as: 1. Disruptiveness 2. Fears 3. Shyness 4. Tantrums 5. Bedwetting 6. Restlessness 7. Disobedience 8. Laziness 9. Aggressiveness The Confident Parenting Program has been used for over two decades within community mental health agencies, and it was selected to represent the social learning or behavioral approach to parent training as part of the continuing education program sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Recently the program was updated and three new sections have been added. These include Corporal Punishment, Modeling and Family Rules. The Confident Parenting Program's versatility and utility is reflected in the fact that in addition to being used to prevent child abuse, it has also Also see : Parenting: How to Help Your Firstborn Become Friends with the New Baby It's normal for a firstborn child to feel upset and unwanted when a new baby arrives. He or she is used to being the only child and had the family's complete attention so far. So when your second bundle of joy arrives, he can easily feel jealous...read more Marriage And Parenting Marriage and parenting are among the few highly-challenging skills for which there are no qualifications, and for which no previous experience is necessary, and for which people just assume they are doing it right, making much of it up as they go...read more been used extensively in regular and special education settings, Head Start agencies, private practices and in churches and temples. Its value-free application of child management skills has allowed for its successful use with a wide variety of ethnic minority groups. The program is usually conducted for small groups of parents in ten two-hour sessions. Its specific skills, such as effective praising, can be the focus of one-session parent meetings. There is also a one-day seminar version available. Research studies demonstrate that CICC's Confident Parenting Program reduces the need for additional family or child services, significantly diminishes a variety of child behavior problems, improves overall family relations and provides useful alternatives to corporal punishment. Thus, it can provide a community with an intervention to promote child mental health and prevent child abuse and Also see : Parenting Resolutions for Character Builders, The Best Three Ever! Desmond Tutu said, "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as your are to them." 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(http://ciccparenting.org/NewsLetters/OneDaySeminar_ColleagueHome.htm) Individuals can also enroll in an Instructor Training Workshop, where they can become a certified parenting instructor and conduct the program themselves. (
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Parenting educators or group leaders can also purchase and use the materials in the workshop to run the program on their own. (http://ciccparenting.org/CatalogItemList.asp?c=29&cid=)

A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program's content, history and evaluation research studies is available on the CICC Web site. (http://www.ciccparenting.org/ConfidentParentingDesc.aspx)

For more information about CICC's Confident Parenting Program e-mail cicc@flash.net or call toll-free 1(800) 325-CICC (2422).

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T. Alvy, Ph.D. is a nationally and internationally respected authority on parenting and parent training. He is the executive director and founder of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring in Studio City, CA. The center has a variety of parenting books, videos and other products available on its Web site http://www.ciccparenting.com. On his blog, http://www.EducatedParenting.com, Dr. Alvy addresses a variety of parenting topics, issues, and trends. Dr. Alvy is available as a consultant, speaker, and media guest. For more information, go to http://www.DrAlvy.com To sign-up for Dr. Alvy's free Effective Parenting Newsletter, go to http://www.ciccparenting.org and click on "Add Me".

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