Shape Behaviors with Ohio Guidestone Sessions

LCCAA Head Start partner Ohio Guidestone is offering a series of free sessions for parents who want to expand their parenting tool box.

Shaping Behaviors: Tools of the Trade began Oct. 20 with a session on the Power of Play. All sessions are free and available via Zoom. Sessions typically run for one hour, with extended time given for discussion and questions. Zoom links and passwords are posted on ClassTag.

The sessions are presented by Donna Jezewski, M.Ed., LSW a therapist and mental health consultant with Ohio Guidestone, Lorain County.

Upcoming Sessions:

Nov. 3, 12 p.m.: The Art of Effective Praise, Encouragement and Incentives. This session will help you shape the good behaviors you’d like to see more of.

Nov. 17, 12 p.m.: Preventing Misbehavior and Meltdowns. This session will share effective strategies for setting limits.

Dec. 1, 12 p.m.: Reducing Misbehavior. This session includes a discussion of calming skills and effective consequences.

Sessions are independent of each other - tune in when you can. Material is taken from The Incredible Years, a curriculum for parent education, and Conscious Discipline, the discipline philosophy used in LCCAA Head Start classrooms.

Jezewski plans to repeat the series this winter as well.