We have exciting new changes in our schedule for 2006. We now offer a weekly workshop. We offer a variety of parenting and marriage enhancement classes and workshops. Find one to match your needs and schedule.

• Shares age-appropriate child development and parenting information.
• Teaches parents how to tone into their child's needs.
• Addresses parenting concerns
• Encourages parent/child interaction through play.

The Parents As Teachers (PAT) program is for families with children birth to age five.

• Children are more advanced in language, social / emotional, intellectual, and motor skill development.
• Parents are more confident in their parenting role and read more to their children.
• Children are ready for kindergarten and parents are more involved in their children's schooling.
• Increased awareness of communtiy resources.
• Development screenings
  
  2.  Make-It Take-It:  [Menu]
       Join us for Make-it Take-it on Wednesday mornings. Parents bring in your preschoolers for fun and activities such as crafts, music, games, and play time in the gym.
  The fun begins at 10:30 a.m. Kindergarten Room (Southeast-room on the right side coming down the hallway) until noon.
  
  3.  Classes:  [Menu]
  Parenting with Love and logic is a 6-week course that focuses on basic principles of discipline and raising children. It gives parents the skills necessary to teach children to be responsible and prepared for life experiences. We also offer Parenting Teens with Love & Logic.
  Brain Smart Parenting is a 6 eek course that includes information about your child's developing brain and how to teach your child essential lofe values and basic social skills. Includes specific discipline techniques.
  Parents Who Care is a research based program for Parents of teenagers. Risks for health and behavior problems like substance abouse, delinquency, teen pregnancy, AIDS, and vilence are covered.
  Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a 6 week class that teaches practical skills that promote patterns of well functioning families such as communication, problem solving, discipline, and building on family strengths. This class is available in Spanish.
  PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program). PREP is a skill and principle based curriculum designed to help partners say what they need to say, get to the heart of their problems, and enhanced their marital bonds.
  4.  Seven Keys to Creating Family Ties:  [Menu]
       #1:  Create a sense of belonging - Families who make family a priority,create a sense of belonging.  They plan time for family acitivities and events, and respect that time.  Family members are expected to participate and made to feel they are an important part of the family unit.
       #2:  Show love and appreciation - Families show love and appreciation for each other, in many ways.  They learn to be comfortable communicating their affection and giving each other "gifts of love" often.  No one, no matter how old they are, ever grows out of the need to feel loved and appreciated.
       #3:  Stay close to family and friends - Families stay close to family and friends that live far away.  They don't let distance and time erode their bonds.  They find ways to stay connected and enrich their relationships.  They will make sacrifices, like driving through snowstorms, to get together and support each other, especially in hard times.
       #4:  Create a strong sense of family identity, rich in tradition - The rituals and traditions families create, and pass on, help them feel unique as a family and connected to each other.  the sillier, and more unusual, the better.  "this is who we are ... this is how we do things ... this is how we celebrate birthdays, the Fourth of July, Mother's Day, etc.
       #5:  Develop a family history - Families develop their history thorugh stories, keepsakes,etc.  They are interested in their heritage and often create family trees, interview older family members, and treasure keepsakes from distant relatives.  They keep journals and write down the wonderful "family stories" that get passed down through the generations.
       #6:  Honor and respect family values - Families honor and respect a set of family values.  They know what those family values are, talk about them often, and help each other make important decisions with those values in mind.  Many of their family traditions revolve aro und the values they want to teach their children.
       #7:  Celebrate life together...often - Families get thogether with family and friends and find reasons to celebrate life every month.  They all participate and help in the planning and preparation.  They enjoy each other's company and make every event a celebration.
  
  5.  Wiggles'n Giggles:  [Menu]
       Join us for fun and laughter on Wednesday Mornings at 10 am and at 6-7 pm at Westmore Elementary School (1150 S. Main, Orem) if it has a pound ( # ) sign by it.  This free Kindergarten Readiness class is for preschoolers and their parents.  Sing songs, play games, make a craft and learn something new.  Don't miss out!  The fun begins at 10 am.  Wiggles'n Giggles will also be held on Thursday mornings starting Jan. 18th at Grant School, 105 S. 400 E., Springville.
  
  

  Date	Workshop	Activity
  WED, JAN 10	Parents in Charge	Snowflakes
  WED, JAN 17	Through Children's Eyes	Space
  WED, JAN 24	Rhyme, Rhythm, & Repetition	The Mitten
  WED, JAN 31 #	Sing Along With Me	Let's Make Music
  WED, Feb. 7	Empathy	Valentine's Day
  WED, Feb. 14	You Belong to Me!	President's Day
  WED, Feb. 21	Brain Gym	Kites
  WED, Feb. 28 #	I Like Me!	Baby Animals
  WED, April 4	Rountines & Rituals	Easter
  WED, April 11	Let Me Choose!	April Showers
  WED, April 18	No Workshop - Spring Break
  WED, Apr 25	Values A Must!	Butterflies!
  WED, May 2	TV Smart!	ABC's
  WED, May 9	Importance of Mothering	Mother's Day
  WED, May 16	Age Appropriate Learning	Colors / Shapes
  WED, May 23 #	The Happiest Toddler	Wild Animals
  WED, May 30	Parenting Well With Food	Kids in the Kitchen
  WED, June 6	Gross & Fine Motor	Painting
  WED, June 13	Early Math Development	Flag Day / Father's Day
  WED, June 20 #	Steps to Success	Going BUGGY!
  WED, June 27	Is My Child on Track? / ASQ's	4TH JULY
  WED, JULY 4	No Workshop 4th of July

  
  6.  Winter Workshops:  [Menu]

      Love and Logic: Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun! - This new class will help parents of children birth to age six learn practical and proven tools for raising respectful, responsible, and happy kids.  This program includes techniques that teach responsilbiity and character, lower stress levels, and up to odds that when the teenage years arrive, parenting can remain fun instead of frantic.  5-week sessions.  Tuesdays evenings, Jan. 30 -Feb. 27, 6-8 pm at Westmore Elementary, 1150 S. Main, Orem.  Cost: $35.00 per couple plus workbook.
      Touch A Heart, Teach A Mind - Learn to Parent he brain smart way and enhance your positive parenting skills.  This class includes the research based curriculum of Dr. Becky Bailey.  Learn the effects of parenting on your child's developing brain and specific skills to address challenging behaviors and to teach social skills and life values.  Wednesday evenings, Feb. 28 - April 4, 6:30-8 pm at Grant Elementary, 105 S. 400 E., Springville.  Cost: $35.00
     Parenting With Love and Logic: - This is a 5-week course, that focuses on fundamental princples of discipline and raising children.  Love and Logic provides parents with easy-to-use, practical techniques that help adults achieve respectful and healthy relationships with children.  The unique Love and Logic approach to raising children gives parents the control they need, teaches children to be responsible and prepares them for the real world.  It will help you raise children who are honest, caring, and ethical.  Children who are prepared to make postvie contributions to thier home and community.  Friday afternoons, March 2 - March 30, 1-3 pm at Westmore Elementary, 1150 S. Main, Orem.  Cost: $35.00 per couple

7.  Workshops:  [Menu]
We offer a variety of workshops and presentatons. We schedule for church groups, community groups parent groups, play groups, etc.