Mount Carmel Youth Ranch offers a unique and very effective Breakthrough Parenting Course that will dramatically improve your relationship with your son if the principles learned are applied.
Susan and Tom George Are Certified Breakthrough Parenting Instructors in training, and offer this course to all parents whose son is attending Mount Carmel Youth Ranch
Here's what you will learn in the Breakthrough Parenting Program:
1. Three Approaches to Raising Children—the traditional authoritarian and permissive approaches, a new way based on recent psychological research
2. Making the Shift—how to become inner-directed, prevent the victim syndrome, teach children how to take responsibility, change polarized thinking, use the power of positive thinking, influence children, set personal boundaries, and understand the cycle of change in a child's life
3. Understanding the Source of Behavior—how to see what creates a certain behavior; the underlying thoughts, feelings and needs
4. Teaching Responsibility—how to develop self-responsibility in children, and how to solve any family problem in six steps
5. Helping Children Build Healthy Self-Esteem—how to recognize destructive and constructive labels, inspire children to do better, and show that mistakes can be valuable
6. Communicating Effectively—how to handle disciplinary situations with 90% less stress; how to use the power of receptive listening, build trust, and avoid the “accusatory you”
7. Influencing Children Positively—how to build on children's natural way of learning, how to used different leadership styles
8. Problems with Punishment—differences between verbal and physical punishment, understand the differences between discipline and punishment
9. Discipline with Love—how to clarify agreements, how to address different behavior problems, how to use natural consequences that children can understand, how to plan ahead to prevent problems before they occur ,handle temper tantrums effectively at any age
10. How Children Think—how play is a child’s work, the multi-faceted mind, how to find your child's particular strengths (this is one of the most appreciated parts of this program)
11. Learning to Love—how children develop from birth to young adult
12. Reducing Stress in the Family—how to accept children as they are, and understand the specific needs of each of us
13. Resolving Family Conflicts—how to identify conflict, use the four most effective conflict resolution strategies ,use H.A.L.T. to reduce stress and anger, and build closeness
14. Talking about Sensitive Subjects—how to do it effectively with our seven guidelines, how to really understand teenagers, how to deal with life-threatening issues for teens
15. Living a Self-Actualized Life—how to set useful family goals, live consciously, how to help your children make truly life-altering choices, how to teach your children to recognize the consequences of our choices
The real-life examples in the Breakthrough Parenting Home Program come from actual,
real-life families in Breakthrough Parenting classes over the last 19 years. Most of these were difficult cases, and quite a few families didn't even have the support of both parents, either due to one parent being absent, or being present but not cooperating.
The biggest challenges were often in cases of parental alienation, when one parent was working hard to turn the children against the other parent. Numerous such situations have been reversed with this very powerful and comprehensive program.
These are the key parts of the Breakthrough Parenting Home Program:
1. The Breakthrough Parenting Textbook
A team of educators, editors and illustrators spent several years making this fun text book as clear and easy-to-read as humanly possible.
Many parents have told us, "I couldn’t put it down. I have never seen anything else that explains so clearly what really goes on in families and what to do about it!"
You will learn how to form a new relationship with your children, how to develop their strengths and how to get them to cooperate in ways you never thought possible. The numerous real-life examples make it easy for you to see how to use Breakthrough Parenting in your own family, and the comprehensive index makes it easy to find anything you may looking for.
2. The Breakthrough Parenting Workbook
This book is based on nineteen years of experience with showing parents how to move their families from struggle to cooperation. In the textbook, you learned about the sources of the many kinds of family problems; in the workbook you now find out you how to immediately use the very powerful Breakthrough Parenting techniques in your own family.
Every thing in the workbook is based on solid research and has been used by many thousands of parents. Every paragraph is as clear as we could make it, and there is no "fluff" or "pop-psychology."
Many parents have said to us wishfully, "If we had had this material ten years ago, our family life would have been completely different."
"We think Breakthrough Parenting is a revolutionary program, and it is obvious to my team that we have seen more success in the lessons of Breakthrough Parenting we have presented to date than in all the classes any of us have ever taught".
~Mollie M. Hughes, Parent Education Coordinator
Children’s Home Society (est.1891)
When a family comes to visit their son, we will do a parent session, an equine assisted therapy activity, and then a family session to review what they have learned and processed. We will also use this time to deal with any issues that arise when they are out with their son on an outing and review and validate the progress they see in each other.
When the student reaches the top two levels in the bunkhouse they will continue with the discharge planning, putting community support systems in place for the student upon arrival home with the parents assistance, and finish up any family relationship issues necessary to increase the success of the student's return home.
Do you know an at risk teen? Call Mount Carmel Youth Ranch for more information on our Wilderness Program and School for Troubled Teens. We can help!
Business/ Admissions Office (307) 645-3322 or (307) 899-1690
reach us by email at admissions@mtcarmelyouthranch.com
