Sound Discipline Supports Parents
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Sound Discipline supports parents. Read below for tips & tools, resources and events in our area. 
Welcome to our new newsletter, focused on parenting support and resources. Do you have ideas for content or resources we should include? Email us.
In September, our Sound Discipline social media and blogs are focused on CURIOSITY. Curiosity is a sense of wonder and openness about the future. It comes partly from the brain wanting to understand or make order out of something that doesn’t make sense. If you have a young child at home, you know that they see the world through the lens of curiosity. They have lots of questions! Curiosity is associated with the release and flow of dopamine and seratonin in the brain, generating a sense of pleasure. Curious brains are also better at learning. Read more on our Sound Discipline Blog for 6 ideas to encourage and help your child maintain a sense curiosity and wonder.
We Teach Children....We Do As Adults
In each newsletter, we will highlight the lessons we teach educators in our Sound Discipline schools, and how parents can integrate those lessons at home. 
We Teach Everyone: 
How our brains work to keep us safe 
How to be aware of our bodies and emotions
How to communicate in helpful, not hurtful ways
How to work as a community to solve problems 
How to repair our mistakes 
Brains, Bodies & Emotions
We Teach Children
“Flipping Your Lid” 
Sometimes we get mad or sad or excited and we can’t think clearly. We call this “flipping our lid”. We can use a hand gesture to tell others if our brains are calm or flipped. 
To learn more, watch this video of the Brain in the Palm of the Hand by Dr. Daniel Siegel: 
https://youtu.be/f-m2YcdMdFw. Does your child know the “flipping your lid” concept and the hand gesture? Ask them to show you.
We Do as Adults
Model Self-regulation 
If we as adults “flip our lids,” we can actually dysregulate our children or students. To help ourselves stay as calm as possible, adults can try these strategies: 
•    Take breathing breaks when we notice our stress
•    Ask for help from other adults before we
“flip our lids”
•    Respond calmly & firmly rather than react to misbehavior
Parenting with Positive Discipline - 6-week class
Parents are often challenged by kid fights, whining, chores, bedtime problems, homework problems and other issues. This course provides skills and tools to get to the core of conflict and bring more peace and joy to your home.
This 6-week Parenting with Positive Discipline series provides parents with tools and skills to strike an important balance between being kind and firm in a fun, relaxing and supportive atmosphere.
Jan 17 - Feb 28 (Skip Feb 21) Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Greenwood Senior Center, Seattle.
Register here.
Are you interested in bringing a Parenting class
to your school or community?

We are currently scheduling for the 2018-2019 school year. 
Contact
mary@sounddiscipline.org.

We offer two options for parenting classes for your community:
1) Our 1 time, 2-hour Parenting with Courage and Connection workshop, an introduction to Parenting with Positive Discipline.  This workshop can be done for up to 100 participants.
2) The 6-week Parenting with Positive Discipline series provides parents with tools and skills to strike an important balance between being kind and firm in a fun, relaxing and supportive atmosphere.
Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way
Would you like to be certified to provide parenting classes to your community? Teaching Parenting is a step-by-step approach to starting and leading experientially based parenting groups using the Positive Discipline and Adlerian philosophy. Build community and become a parent leader!
This workshop consists of a 2-hour evening parenting workshop and 2 full days of class. (The 2-hour evening parenting workshop portion of the class only is open to the public and offered by Sound Discipline at no cost to the host school's community.)
October 4, Thursday 6:30-8:30pm, Campbell Hill Elementary School, Renton.
October 5 & 6, Friday & Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm, 2100 Building, Seattle. 

Register here.
Mentor Group for Parent Educators
Learn and develop your parent education skills with other
certified Positive Discipline 
parent educators in our area. 
Oct 13, Nov 3, Dec 8. Saturdays 9:30-11:30, Sound Discipline office, Seattle.

Register here. 
Calm Down Strategies
Local Parent Coach Sarina Natkin, LICSW, writes about Positive Discipline parenting strategies on her blog and on her video segments on KING5 news. In this article, she explains how to use the calm down strategies from Positive Discipline in the Classroom to help us as adults manage our own emotions, which will in turn help our children to manage their own brains, bodies and emotions.
Additional Parenting Resources and Classes

Puget Sound Adlerian Society Parenting Events Calendar

Disclaimer - Most of these events are not affiliated with Sound Discipline. We are providing this list as a resource. We do endorse any particular practitioner or workshops.
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