Painless parenting workshop

By Carol Chandler
Contributing Writer
Union County Post

Are you interested in time-tested, powerful tools for raising happy, responsible kids? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these same tools and techniques could lower your stress level during these challenging years? Would you like to learn solutions for those frustrating things that parents deal with each and every day - common problems that exist among adults and young children.
Painless Parenting for Early Childhood, a three-part parenting workshop, is being offered by OSU Extension on Wednesday evenings - January 9, 16 and 2, 6:30 - 9 p.m. at the OSU Extension office at the Union County Agricultural Services Center, 18000 State Route 4, Suite E, in Marysville.
Using resources developed by Love & Logic parenting experts, Jim and Charles Fay, Ph.D., parents will learn how to turn mistakes children make into golden nuggets of wisdom. Topics that will be addressed span the gamut of behavioral areas including hygiene, manners, eating, cleanliness and tantrums.
The experts address bedtime battles, power struggles about eating, potty training, grocery store temper tantrums, getting kids to brush their teeth, whining, kids who won’t get ready on time in the mornings, sibling rivalry, getting kids to pick up their toys, temper tantrums and fits in restaurants, what to do when kids say “no” all the time, begging for toys or candy in the check-out line, misbehaving at day care, preschool, or kindergarten, and other problems that parents face daily.
Total cost for the program is $30/ person or $40/couple. Registration fee must be received in advance of the first class to reserve class materials. Child care is not available. For more information or for dates and times of additional class series, contact the Extension office at 937-644-8117 or 1-800-589-8584.