Online Promotion Guide: Active Parenting Now in 3 Introduction

This guide is a brief overview of some of the planning and promotional techniques that help ensure a successful Active Parenting Now in 3 program. Ultimately, though, the success of your workshop depends on you. Your sustained enthusiasm and unique insights into how best to spread the word about Active Parenting Now in 3 will guarantee that more parents in your community will learn skills that help build stronger families.

Before trying to sell the idea of parenting education to your community, it is important to remember what Active Parenting Now in 3 can do for parents and children. This program gives parents a three-week opportunity to focus on their family without any of the usual interruptions, such as TV and the phone. Each session allows participants to identify daily family problems and then learn techniques for solving and preventing them.

By the end of the third session parents will have learned skills for:

1. Communicating effectively with their children

2. Disciplining while teaching responsibility

3. Encouraging the development of self-esteem and character

4. Redirecting misbehavior and avoiding power struggles

5. Preventing the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

6. Encouraging nonviolent conflict resolution

Armed with these new skills parents are better prepared to raise children who are cooperative, responsible and able to resist peer pressure. These children are then empowered to become adults who live happy, independent and productive lives.