Preparation for Parenting
(children 0-5 months, classes will be held Fall/Spring, 6 sessions, $15 per family)
Coming with the applause of over two million parents and twice as many babies worldwide, Preparation for Parenting provides a prescription for responsible parenting. The infant management plan offered by the Ezzos, successfully and naturally helps infants synchronize their feeding/waketime and nighttime sleep cycles. The results? You parent a happy, healthy and contented baby who will begin sleeping through the night on average between seven and nine weeks of age. Learning how to manage your newborn is the first critical step in teaching your child how to manage his life.
The Babyhood Transitions
(children 5-12 months, study on your own, 2 sessions, $12 per family)
Practical steps for successfully managing the growth challenges ahead. From introducing solid foods to introducing the playpen and everything in between—it's all here for your baby's benefit and your peace of mind. Enjoy your pretoddler.
Preparation for the Toddler Yrs.
These next six months is season of exchange: baby food is exchanged for table food; formula for whole milk; bottle for sippy cup; the highchair for a booster seat; feeding himself with his fingers replaced by a spoon and fork; babbling talk to speaking, and the first unsteady steps are taken over by strides of confidence. Your pretoddler graduated infancy with a mind of his own and his natural inclination and challenge of "I do it myself" will become part of his and your day. Learn principles, strategies and step by step guidance that will help parent and child make a smooth transition from babyhood to toddlerhood.
Preparation for the Toddler Yrs
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(children 12-18 months, study on your own, 3 sessions, $13 per family)
These next six months is season of exchange: baby food is exchanged for table food; formula for whole milk; bottle for sippy cup; the highchair for a booster seat; feeding himself with his fingers replaced by a spoon and fork; babbling talk to speaking, and the first unsteady steps are taken over by strides of confidence. Your pretoddler graduated infancy with a mind of his own and his natural inclination and challenge of "I do it myself" will become part of his and your day. Learn principles, strategies and step by step guidance that will help parent and child make a smooth transition from babyhood to toddlerhood.
The Toddlerhood Transition
(children 18-36 months, Fall/Spring, 9 sessions, $15 per family)
Toddlers begin speaking full sentences and throwing full tantrums, deep hilarious laughing and a lack of impulse control. They can provide the best fun and the worst behavior. They can also make you feel like the best parent one minute and the worst, the next. Learning how to manage your toddlers day, while encourage learning and discouraging behavior in need of future correction is a primary goal of The Toddlerhood Transition series.
Growing Kids God's Way
(children 3-7 years, March-June, 17 sessions, $20 per family)
• How to help children internalize virtues and values and how to help them practically live out the character of God in their life.
• What parents do to foster insecure children and how they can fix current problems.
• How to say "I love you" to your children and spouse in such a way that each member actually feels the full sensation of parental love.
• How fathers build or undermine their children's sense of trust and confidence in parental leadership and how to build family loyalty and identity.
• What is true character and how do you teach your children to love and prefer each other?
• You will learn how not to raise a moral robot" but a child with moral sensibility.
• Learn what true biblical discipline is and what are the principles of first time obedience.
• How to train right behavior into children so you will not have to spend unnecessary time correcting wrong behavior.
• How to successfully handle sibling conflict, temper tantrums, and the three sister sins: lying, cheating and stealing.
• How to instill that wonderful life-virtue of personal self-control and a sense of personal responsibility.
Parenting the Middle Years
(children 8-12 years, September/October, 4 sessions, $13 per family)
• How to create a family-dependent and not a peer-dependent child.
• How to lead by your relational influence and not by coercive authority.
• What discipline methods work and what methods do not work.
• How to recognize if your child is in trouble.
Reaching the Heart of Your Teen
(children 12-16, October/November, 5 sessions, $14 per family)
• Healthy families with teens and what makes them strong.
• Understanding teenage rebellion for what it really is.
• The diminishing role of parental authority and increasing role of parental influence in the teen’s life.
• How to establish common moral ground with your teen.
• The do's and don'ts of parent-teen communication.
• How to influence peer pressure on your children.
• How to start over with a wayward teen.
• How to truly communicate love to your teen.
• Understanding why teens don't talk or listen.
• What methods of corrections work with teens.
• Issues related to dating and courtship, and much more.