The book Parenting For Everyone is different because it describes classical parenting, which has a different approach to the relationship between parents and children. Most conventional parenting books suggest a "correcting" approach to parenting, which assumes that parents are to watch, control and correct their children's behavior.

Yes. You can select from a number of different parenting plans, each of which is written to address a variety of situations (long distance, restricted visitation, military service, etc).

Yes. You can take sections from any of the plans and add them into your "master" or final version. This way you have a range of options available to you for the kind of parenting plan suits your needs the best.

Change the parenting plan's name to save it as a new document. You may save up to 20 different versions of your parenting plans.

There are hundreds of books about how to understand and nurture a child, but very few, if any, about how a mother can understand and nurture herself. MotherStyles is unique among parenting books in that it focuses primarily on the mother and stresses self awareness as the key to success in parenting. It affirms her strengths, what she’s doing right, rather than judging her or telling her what’s she doing wrong.

To make good agreements, parties need adequate and accurate information, of course. As a less formal process than adversarial divorce, mediation may not be suited for you when you have substantial concerns about your spouse or co-parent's integrity or candor in financial disclosures.

We want to develop in parents a greater understanding and appreciation for what’s happening in the lives of their families. Second, we want to encourage and affirm parents. Regardless of how they may feel, we want them to understand just how important they are to their kids. We want them to leave feeling hopeful and energized. Third, we want to give parents lots of principles, ideas, and how-to’s they can put into practice right away. Our seminars are very practical.

We began presenting seminars in 1989 as part of Youth Specialties. In 1994, we formed a separate organization to focus exclusively on helping parents of teens and pre-teens. In 2005 Understanding Your Teenager became part of HomeWord, a ministry whose mission is “encouraging parents, building families.” More information about HomeWord is available at www.homeword.com.

Our program is presented as a 9 hour parenting course offered on DVD or VHS video with a FREE accompanying parent's workbook. The premise of our program is based upon one central idea: The course is intended to be viewed by parents over a nine week period of time (to see the individual lessons, click here). It consists of approximately nine hours of taped classes, and we feel strongly that they produce the best results when viewed in small groups.

Yes, two books are now available. Mac's first book, "Parenting With Dignity", is a sincere and compelling approach to teaching parents how to instill a sense of responsible decision making in their kids. In this book, you will discover a simple premise of the Parenting with Dignity philosophy, and... Mac Bledsoe's newest parenting book...available in soft cover. Learn the five rules for resolving the most common challenges with children two to six.

Our program is not about WHAT to teach, it is about HOW to teach effectively - how to teach your values to your children. God is for YOU to put in the program! Our course teaches techniques for YOU to use in teaching what YOU believe to YOUR children.

A The focus of these workshops is "How to lead a successful group" using Active Parenting principles rather than only specific program content. Both programs share the same concept and similar format. The workshop will allow you to view some video vignettes from each program. A Although Active Parenting programs were designed to be used as complete parenting courses, they can also be used to enhance existing programs.

Yes. You may allow your Guests edit and revise any of the plans you make available to them (the "visible" plans). You can do this by saving an extra copy of the plan just for them and then hiding the original (so the original plan can't be changed).

If you wish to illustrate for Parenting Press, begin by looking at the kinds of illustrations we have used. For samples of what we want, look at our covers and the illustrations used with the Weekly Parenting Tips (which come from our books). We look for illustrations that show children as “alive.” We like to see children with emotions and personality. Most of our illustrations are black and white, but occasionally are color. Our selection process is somewhat unusual.

A Once you've attended the training, you can become an Active Parenting certified leader by holding your first parenting group and sending us the evaluations from your class, along with your self-evauation. If your evaluations are positive, we will certify you as an Active Parenting leader. Of course you may continue to hold parenting classes even if you choose not be become certified.

If you are interested in being added to the Parenting Works mailing list please send your name and address (including ZIP code) to chec@chw.org.

During this course we learn a variety of meditation practices and practice them at home with audio tapes. We also learn about bringing mindfulness into our daily lives, emphasizing practices that help us to be more present with our children. We share our experiences with the practices in class each week, talking with others about what we have discovered about being in the present moment with ourselves and our children.

Fundamentally, parents must understand that much more time/effort has to be invested in raising ADD children. A difficult concept for older generations to accept is that: There is no such thing as a "BAD CHILD" that lacks "DISCIPLINE". ADD children require additional supports/training to enable them to be successful. Here are a few tricks and tips that I have assembled from various sources (including books, seminars and practice).

When I (Mac Bledsoe) was in the Army there was an amazing lady who worked for me in the office that I was assigned to manage. I'll call her Patricia to keep her identity private, but Patricia kept me sane while I was in the insanity of the Army and the Viet Nam war. She also taught me a ton while I was there. (She remains a friend today and she is still teaching me.

Quite simply, what I hope that people will get out of the visit with our Parenting with Dignity curriculum is that, whether or not they want to admit it or not, their children will make all of the big decisions in their lives. I want people to understand that this is an inescapable fact of life because when their kids make almost all of those big decisions the parents will not be physically present to make them for their kids.