familyfuel’s Short Classes are 2.5 hour classes that are great for newcomers and those who have already attended a Becoming a Love and Logic Parent 10 Hour Seminar.
You will learn quick and easy skills that can be used with your kids the same day with surprising success.
The entertaining multi-media classes are interesting, interactive and informative with Q&A and lots of laughs.
We offer many types of classes to enrich your family.
Cost: $25 / person OR $35 / couple
To find a class offered in Santa Barbara, CA click here
To find a class offered in the Santa Ynez Valley, CA click here
To find a class offered in Ventura County, CA click here
OR contact us to schedule a seminar for your group anywhere in the US
Love and Logic Essentials Classes
Introduction to Love and Logic Classes (also great for review):
Discipline Kids Without Losing Their Love
The secret to discipline and keeping in relationship, using empathy before delivering a consequence
Creative Compassionate Concrete Consequences
Learn the secret of how to discipline your kids without losing their love & how to deliver learning-based consequences
Control in Healthy Balance
Skills for sharing control, problem solving, and decision making and a look at three parenting styles
Limits Without Ordering & Arguing
Setting firm limits using “I will” messages and enforcing them by neutralizing arguing & manipulation
Limits & Boundaries
How to set and enforce effective limits with your kids while maintaining healthy personal boundaries around yourself
Stop The Arguing!
Stopping arguing and avoiding getting hooked into arguments with your kids in a loving way
Topical Classes:
Chores & Finances For Kids
An early start to financial responsibility and family contributions
Homework Without The Battle
How to avoid homework battles & “up the odds” for your child getting the most out of learning
Bullying
Positive strategies for parents of bullies, the bullied, and bystanders from preschool to high school
Strategies For a Typical School Day
Strategies for getting your kids out in the morning, chores, homework, and bedtime without a sweat!
Age-Specific Classes:
Extra Strategies for Early Childhood
Great practical skills for potty training, bonding, sleep issues, and three toddler behavior solutions
Strategies for Successful Tweens
Issues of respect, responsibility, and homework in the family and bullying, peer pressure and acceptance at school
Translating Teens
Great practical skills to stop arguing, set boundaries and share control, while improving relationship
Nine Essential Skills of Love and Logic Classes:
Empathy: The Most Important Skill
Children learn from consequences with calm, understanding, empathetic parents
Sharing Control With Choices
Using age-appropriate choices to teach children successful decision-making
Problem Solving For Kids
Learn the Problem Solving Model to encourage kids to successfully solve their problems
Turn Your Words From Garbage to Gold
Using enforceable statements to set loving limits by eliminating orders and commands
Recovery Time
Effective, empathetic discipline beyond “time out” when kids misbehave
Delayed Consequences
Using this tool gives parents time to think of an appropriate consequence for misbehavior
Restitution
Allowing our kids to learn respect for others and grow their conscience by giving back
Neutralizing Arguing
How to avoid being drawn into arguments with your kids and how to recognize what “hooks” you
Strategic Training Sessions
How to make a successful plan for chronic misbehavior that gets your child’s attention
Coming Soon:
Sibling Rivalry Solutions
Creative solutions to sibling disputes that move you beyond the “referee” mode
Shaping Self-Concept
Find out what shapes positive self-concept and how to promote that in your child
Entitlement to Gratefulness
Strategies for bringing the over-indulged child to a place of appreciation
Parenting Styles
An overview of the three types of parents, helicopters, drill sergeants, and consultants
Raising Responsible Kids
A relational approach to allowing children to learn from their mistakes & problems
familyfuel focus Classes
A Family in Balance
A way to reduce stress, and bring balance, order and teamwork into the family
Family Values
Establishing and celebrating your specific values that make you a unique family
Ages & Stages of Development Series:
Infants & Toddlers / Preschoolers & School Age / Early Adolescents
Establishing developmental and behavioral expectations for kids’ ages and stages
Sexuality in Children
Establishing developmental and behavioral expectations for sexuality in children
Future Topics:
Family Meetings
Establish a family practice that promotes communication, cooperation, relationship and fun
Greatness in Children
Discover what great attributes successful children all have in common
Parenting Newborns & Infants
Strategies for building big brains and big hearts in your children from the beginning
Attachment & Bonding
Practical and loving techniques for bonding to your newborns and infants
Parenting with Compassionate Authority
Using loving authority to parent our kids through misbehavior
Temperaments and Parenting Styles
Discovering the different temperaments and how to effectively parent to them
Character Development
Intentional parenting today with the your child’s future integrity in mind
Communication with Kids
Using empathy, listening, and other tools to bridge the gap between parents and kids
Resiliency
Turning kids’ difficulties and disappointments into learning that makes them stronger
Transition into Parenthood
Transitioning smoothly from a married couple with no kids into becoming parents
