Cornell Cooperative Extension

Parenting & Life Skills

Workshops

Teaching Children Social Problem Solving Skills
A workshop to help parents help children to recognize feelings, define conflict, understand stress, and identify ways to handle difficult situations in a manner that will help to resolve the problem and choose the course of action that will be of the most benefit to them in the future.

How Good Parents Raise Great Kids
How do we build positive self esteem in our children? How do children develop strong character traits and self control? Parents will receive discipline techniques to help them respond to their children in a positive and consistent manner.

Helping Children Manage Anger
Help children manage their anger and reduce conflict in the home, leading to a more peaceful and tranquil environment.

Helping Children with Difficult Behaviors
Parents or caregivers receive techniques to help easily frustrated, inflexible, anxious, irritable, volatile, and explosive children, as well as positive discipline guidelines.

How to Recognize and Manage Your Stress
Americans live in a high stress, fast paced society, and stress is a part of our lives. If we don’t learn to manage stress, stress will damage us. Gain insight to help recognize our body’s reaction to stresses, learn to manage our body’s response to stress, and accept stressful life challenges that we cannot control.

Helping Your Children Succeed in School
Parents’ involvement in their child's school is important. Understand and develop your child's ability to learn; structure a school smart home; build positive parent-teacher relations; encourage positive behaviors.

Building Positive Self-Esteem in Your Children
Before children can exhibit positive character traits, they must feel that they are a likeable person, they are important, and they matter. This workshop will teach skills to increase self-esteem.

Child Development
Understand child growth and development, from infants through grade 6. Are children just like adults – but in teeny-tiny bodies? Find out what children are capable of at different ages and stages of their lives.

Shaking, Hitting, Spanking – What to do instead
Parents don’t have to shake, hit or spank their children to get them to comply with their wishes. What are some alternatives that will help parents and children attain a healthy, happy family?

How Does America’s Media Affect Children?
Do television, movies, music and video games affect our children? What and how much is harmful? This workshop will give parents an eye-opening perspective of media influences in our everyday lives and in the lives of our children.

Parenting After Separation or Divorce - Helping Children Adjust
A certified program designed to educate divorcing or separating parents about the impact of their breakup on their children. The primary goal of the program is to teach parents ways they can reduce the stress of family changes and protect their children from the negative effects of ongoing parental conflict. This is a project of the Supreme and Family Courts of New York State’s Judicial Districts. Fee is $50.00 per person [scholarship available for those with limited funds].

Download the Parenting After Separation or Divorce registration form

ACT [Adults and Children Together] Against Violence Training Program for Parents:*
[Certificate awarded upon completion]
1. Helping Young Children Express and Manage Anger - Families will learn skills to help adults and children recognize and name angry feelings, and channel them into constructive actions.
2. Teaching Social Problem Solving Skills to Young Children – By understanding child development and temperament, families are able to help young children learn how to interact, cooperate, share, and solve problems with other children.
3. Young Children and Discipline – Families will be able to apply strategies to prevent and manage challenging behaviors.
4. Reducing the Impact of Media Violence on Young Children – Families will be able to identify the relationship between exposure to media violence and young children’s aggressive behaviors, and use strategies to reduce the impact of media violence on young children.
* This workshop series is also offered to teachers of young children, giving teachers the skills and materials needed to teach young children in the classroom.

ACT – Parents Raising Safe Kids
Parents/Caregivers - Early violence prevention can be a part of a community’s efforts to prevent violence, and educate parents and adults to create safe and nurturing environments for children in their care. This program is valuable for parents, preschool teachers, day care providers, and before and after-school caregivers.

Smart Steps
Stepfamilies are unique and Cornell Cooperative Extension offers a research-based program about patterns of human behaviors that are true of most people most of the time. The recent research provides us with information to facilitate healthy stepfamily formation, functioning and recognizing environmental influences with human development. This course is a six-week program of 2-hour sessions, held concurrently for adults and children with a family activity at the end of each lesson. Adult and child group facilitators provide interactive learning opportunities for the entire family. The program is designed to benefit children ages 6 – 16. A free 1-hour introductory session is offered to interested groups.

Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
A program for parents, caregivers and their youth, ages 10 – 14. The Strengthening Families Program has seven sessions that are designed to help: 1) parents build on their strengths in showing love and setting limits; 2) youth develop skills in handling peer pressure and building a positive future; 3) families grow together. The sessions focus on parents and youth separately for the first hour and then brings caregivers and youth together as a family the second hour. Some comments from parents who have attended STP: “Outstanding! Has been very helpful to us as a family unit.” “I wish I could have attended when my two older kids were this age. We benefited very much.” “I liked listening to what has worked with other families.”

Contact Ellen Cooper at 518-765-3500, Ext. 552 for details or eec7@cornell.edu





	Parenting & Life Skills Workshops Teaching Children Social Problem Solving Skills A workshop to help parents help children to recognize feelings, define conflict, understand stress, and identify ways to handle difficult situations in a manner that will help to resolve the problem and choose the course of action that will be of the most benefit to them in the future. How Good Parents Raise Great Kids How do we build positive self esteem in our children? How do children develop strong character traits and self control? Parents will receive discipline techniques to help them respond to their children in a positive and consistent manner. Helping Children Manage Anger Help children manage their anger and reduce conflict in the home, leading to a more peaceful and tranquil environment. Helping Children with Difficult Behaviors Parents or caregivers receive techniques to help easily frustrated, inflexible, anxious, irritable, volatile, and explosive children, as well as positive discipline guidelines. How to Recognize and Manage Your Stress Americans live in a high stress, fast paced society, and stress is a part of our lives. If we don’t learn to manage stress, stress will damage us. Gain insight to help recognize our body’s reaction to stresses, learn to manage our body’s response to stress, and accept stressful life challenges that we cannot control. Helping Your Children Succeed in School Parents’ involvement in their child's school is important. Understand and develop your child's ability to learn; structure a school smart home; build positive parent-teacher relations; encourage positive behaviors. Building Positive Self-Esteem in Your Children Before children can exhibit positive character traits, they must feel that they are a likeable person, they are important, and they matter. This workshop will teach skills to increase self-esteem. Child Development Understand child growth and development, from infants through grade 6. Are children just like adults – but in teeny-tiny bodies? Find out what children are capable of at different ages and stages of their lives. Shaking, Hitting, Spanking – What to do instead Parents don’t have to shake, hit or spank their children to get them to comply with their wishes. What are some alternatives that will help parents and children attain a healthy, happy family? How Does America’s Media Affect Children? Do television, movies, music and video games affect our children? What and how much is harmful? This workshop will give parents an eye-opening perspective of media influences in our everyday lives and in the lives of our children. Parenting After Separation or Divorce - Helping Children Adjust A certified program designed to educate divorcing or separating parents about the impact of their breakup on their children. The primary goal of the program is to teach parents ways they can reduce the stress of family changes and protect their children from the negative effects of ongoing parental conflict. This is a project of the Supreme and Family Courts of New York State’s Judicial Districts. Fee is $50.00 per person [scholarship available for those with limited funds]. Download the Parenting After Separation or Divorce registration form ACT [Adults and Children Together] Against Violence Training Program for Parents:* [Certificate awarded upon completion] 1. Helping Young Children Express and Manage Anger - Families will learn skills to help adults and children recognize and name angry feelings, and channel them into constructive actions. 2. Teaching Social Problem Solving Skills to Young Children – By understanding child development and temperament, families are able to help young children learn how to interact, cooperate, share, and solve problems with other children. 3. Young Children and Discipline – Families will be able to apply strategies to prevent and manage challenging behaviors. 4. Reducing the Impact of Media Violence on Young Children – Families will be able to identify the relationship between exposure to media violence and young children’s aggressive behaviors, and use strategies to reduce the impact of media violence on young children. * This workshop series is also offered to teachers of young children, giving teachers the skills and materials needed to teach young children in the classroom. ACT – Parents Raising Safe Kids Parents/Caregivers - Early violence prevention can be a part of a community’s efforts to prevent violence, and educate parents and adults to create safe and nurturing environments for children in their care. This program is valuable for parents, preschool teachers, day care providers, and before and after-school caregivers. Smart Steps Stepfamilies are unique and Cornell Cooperative Extension offers a research-based program about patterns of human behaviors that are true of most people most of the time. The recent research provides us with information to facilitate healthy stepfamily formation, functioning and recognizing environmental influences with human development. This course is a six-week program of 2-hour sessions, held concurrently for adults and children with a family activity at the end of each lesson. Adult and child group facilitators provide interactive learning opportunities for the entire family. The program is designed to benefit children ages 6 – 16. A free 1-hour introductory session is offered to interested groups. Strengthening Families Program (SFP) A program for parents, caregivers and their youth, ages 10 – 14. The Strengthening Families Program has seven sessions that are designed to help: 1) parents build on their strengths in showing love and setting limits; 2) youth develop skills in handling peer pressure and building a positive future; 3) families grow together. The sessions focus on parents and youth separately for the first hour and then brings caregivers and youth together as a family the second hour. Some comments from parents who have attended STP: “Outstanding! Has been very helpful to us as a family unit.” “I wish I could have attended when my two older kids were this age. We benefited very much.” “I liked listening to what has worked with other families.” Contact Ellen Cooper at 518-765-3500, Ext. 552 for details or eec7@cornell.edu