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