VIDEO/DVD: Teaching Children Self-Control Vol 2 DVD
Author: Produced by the Common Sense Parenting Program at Girls and Boys Town
Summary:

• Features scenes that demonstrate the steps of each parenting skill, commentary from Common Sense Parenting experts, as well as graphics and music to engage and inform parents looking for ways to solve discipline problems and improve family life.
• Teaching children how to stay in control when they are frustrated or angry is a difficult parenting challenge. This video gives you the tools to handle emotionally intense situations with your child.
• DVD/video demonstrates how you can calm the child down and, once he or she is in control again, do follow-up teaching.
• Teaching self-control gives both of you the time and space to calm down and to work toward fewer angry outbursts in the future.
• Format: DVD       Duration: approx. 25 minutes

 

• VIDEO/DVD: Building Relationships Vol 1 DVD
  Author Produced by the Common Sense Parenting Program at Girls and Boys Town
  Summary:
• Inform parents looking for ways to solve discipline problems and improve family life.
• Love, trust, and good feelings between parent and child are like a bank account you can draw on when you must discipline or correct a child's misbehavior.
• The more positive your relationship is, the more likely it is that your child will listen to you and try harder to please you.
• Explores several ways to build a better relationship: Catch your children being good and reward them with your praise and attention.
• Hold short but regular family meetings and have fun with them.
• Give your children a voice in family rules and decisions.
• Create predictable family routines that help children feel secure, and establish meaningful traditions that they will want to carry on into the next generation. 
• Format: DVD  Duration: approx. 25 minutes

 

BOOK: Common Sense Parenting Learn at Home Workbook and DVD (DVD)
VIDEO/DVD: Common Sense Parenting Learn at Home Workbook and DVD (DVD)
Author: Ray Burke (Author), Ronald W. Herron (Author), Linda Schuchmann
Summary:

• Two videotapes with three hours of content, allowing viewers to sit in on actual parenting classes and watch a skilled trainer explain parenting techniques.
• Hear answers to questions asked by participants, watch taped vignettes of problem situations and see how the skills are implemented.
• Exercises are also included to test viewer's comprehension of the concepts.
• A workbook accompanies the tapes to reinforce and expand on key points made by the trainer and to outline the steps of each parenting technique presented. Written copies of the exercises are included.
• Topics of the six class sessions: EACH ABOUT ONE, HALF HOUR LONG
• parents as teachers
• encouraging positive behavior
• preventing misbehavior
• correcting problem behavior
• handling emotionally intense situations
• helping children succeed in school