Positive Parenting 3 introduces three techniques to use in more challenging situations. Time-outs offer children a break from the situation so they can calm down and regroup. Removing Privileges can be more effective with older children, who will understand the connection between their behavior and what they lost. Assigning Extra Chores teaches that an unpleasant task is the reward for negative behavior.

Updated in 2011 with a new host and video where formerly there were still images.

28 minutes.

Includes: Interactive DVD, with discussion guide and reproducible questionnaire on CD.

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Just when you think you've got the kids figured out, they change! Life is not simple, but the third and final segment of the popular Foster Parent College series on Positive Parenting addresses the issue of managing difficult behaviors in simple and concrete terms. Dr. Rick Delaney, clinical psychologist, author and lecturer, helps parents understand and use time out, privilege removal and extra chores as positive, non-violent consequences for difficult behaviors.

FPC Positive Parenting 3 provides viewers powerful strategies that complete their parenting tool box. The logical sequence of this parenting series comes to a tidy conclusion with this course. Dr. Delaney continues to build on previously taught skills (gaining children's cooperation, tracking behaviors, and positively encouraging compliance) found in Positive Parenting I; and (setting limits and using behavior contracts) in Positive Parenting II. As parents, we all know that our best intentions and strategies sometimes fail us, and we need to "pull out the big guns." Dr. Delaney provides discipline strategies that not only work, but are safe, calm and thoughtful methods for addressing the recalcitrant child who insists on "doing it her way."

Positive Parenting 3 again uses real life situations to guide the viewer through identification of a problem behavior and concrete, positive solutions for providing consequences for that behavior. Discipline has taken on a negative connotation in current society. Dr. Delaney, understanding that the root of discipline comes from the Latin disciplina which means "instruction", demonstrates for the viewer how to use consequences as teaching tools that not only consequent the child's undesirable behavior, but do not punish the parent. Clear and concise reproducible handouts compliment the video portion of the course and provide important tips and guidelines for using time outs, removal of privileges and extra chores with varying ages of children. Cautions and tips for using these strategies will add to your repertoire of parenting skills.

Many parents, whether biological, foster or adoptive worry about how and when to discipline or consequence a child. Dr. Delaney addresses those concerns with insight and compassion for harried and frustrated parents as well as for children who may have come from unstable and inconsistent homes. The lessons taught in FPC's Positive Parenting 3 will be a significant boost for parents needing develop the skills necessary for creating a stable, consistent and nurturing environment for any child and strong.

• - Ginger Gorham, MS Education
  Ginger is a retired educator with 30 years experience working with special needs and behaviorally challenged students.