The Guidance and Counseling Department of Cypress-Fairbanks I. S. D. offers the following courses. All parents in our district are invited to participate. These classes are offered at various locations in the district.

1. Common Sense Parenting

• Learn how to give your child clear messages
• Learn how to calm yourself
• Teach techniques for teaching your child self-control
• Learn techniques for effective praise that develops consistent expectations and consequences

2. Active Parenting for Elementary Parents

• Discover how to eliminate power struggles with communication skills
• Learn discipline strategies that really work

3. Active Parenting for Teens

• Learn concrete steps for effectively handling family problems through clear, honest communication and respectful discipline
• Clear prevention guidelines are discussed
• Attention is given to today's problems of teen drug use, sexuality and violence

4. Parent Talk

• Learn how to talk to your children in language that builds self-esteem and encourages responsibility.

5. Strengthening Step-Families

• Learn how to build a foundation as stepparents and begin developing communication and listening skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making processes
• Family meeting strategies
• Methods for building new family traditions

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