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Be The Parent You Want To Be: For Parents and Caregivers of Children 0-10

Monday, January 25, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The event will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley located at 320 U.S. Route 5, Norwich, VT (directly across the street from The Family Place).

The Family Place and Green Mountain Children’s Center are pleased to host Nancy Linkroum Pennell in a discussion about parenting. Nancy is a mother of 4 adult children and enjoyed a 25 year career as director of Aloha Camp for teenage girls in Fairlee, VT. In that role she developed programs for girls, counseled teens, and trained hundreds of staff in the principles she now bring to her work as a parent/teacher educator. These principles, based on the concepts of Success Counseling, begin with the understanding that relationships are the most important thing. Parenting is really about building trust and positive relationships that create an environment in which children are more likely to choose cooperation. Control Theory guides people to make choices that help them become the person they want to be.

In her practice Nancy uses a variety of parenting sources including Vickie Hoefle’s Parenting On Track, Jane Nelson’s Positive Discipline, Becky Bailey’s Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, and Michael Thompson’s Raising Cain among others. All of these approaches are based on the principles of Success Counseling. They present commonsense strategies and helpful ways of framing the work of raising young children to be the competent, happy, good choice making, centered adults we hope they will become. But mostly it is about becoming the parent you want to be with the children you have been given. We can all be fabulous parents when our children are doing what we want them to do. But how do we stay loving, playful, consistent, calm and mindful when our children are resisting,complaining, whining, fighting and defying. This is our challenge.

Parenting is the best and hardest job there is! Being able to share and learn together can be transformative on this parenting journey.

Please register for the event (for no cost) on the Eventbrite page.

In the event of inclement weather, we will post updates on this page about cancellation.