What are Parent Cafés
Parent Cafés are based on the principles of adult learning and family support and are a gateway to providing parent growth and leadership opportunities.
The Parent Café material is based upon the evidence-based, primary prevention education program entitled, Community Based Education in Nurturing Parenting®. This model educates parents about the basic philosophy and practices of Nurturing Parenting® in an environment that promotes the development of a support network for families.
How do Parent Cafés Help Parents
- Understand their parenting challenges and celebrate their successes
- Gain confidence in their own knowledge, skills and wisdom
- Find out what supports and resources are available
Parent Café Facebook In-Person
Join us for our FREE in-person event. Parent Cafe will be held monthly on the 1st Thursday of each month from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. This group meets at 1602 W Business 380 – Suite 100 Decatur, TX 76234.
| Date | Topic |
| 01/05/23 | Praise your Children & their Behavior Objectives: To provide parents an opportunity for giving and receiving praise. To increase understanding of the steps involved in praise. To increase understanding of the different uses of praise. |
| 02/02/23 | Family Morals, Values, & Rules Objectives: To define family morals. To give examples of family morals. To relate family morals to family discipline. To define family values. To define the purpose of family rules. |
| 03/02/23 | Positive Discipline Strategies Objectives: To determine difference between punishment and discipline To discuss discipline alternatives that are positive |
| 04/06/23 | Positive ways to Deal w. Stress & Anger Objectives: To examine the meaning of stress. To identify ways adults create stress. To help parents and their children reduce stress. |
| 05/04/23 | Boundaries Objectives: To help parents understand how to set healthy boundaries and expectations for their families. To help parents realize their ability to impact a child’s emotional development nurturing children while reinforcing expectations and boundaries. To help parents develop effective consequences for children at a variety of ages. |
| 06/01/23 | Co-Parenting Objectives: To utilize nurturing parenting principles to help parents effectively co-parent children. To help separated parents positively impact their child’s emotional development by working together with another. To define ways separated parents can lessen the impact of their separation and improve outcomes for their children. (For the purposes of this presentation, the term “separated” refers to parents who no longer live together. |
| 07/06/23 | Coping Skills Objectives: Parents will understand what stress is and how stress impacts their ability to parent effectively. Parents will explore a variety of stressors in their own lives. Parents will become familiar with the most common indicators of stress in parents and children. Parents will learn a variety of coping skills to inoculate themselves and their children against the negative effects of stress |
| 08/03/23 | Parenting Styles Objectives: To describe nurturing parenting principles. To help parents recognize their own parenting styles and the strengths and weaknesses of that style. . To define ways parents can improve their parenting style to aid in their children’s emotional development. |
| 09/07/23 | Growth Mindset Objectives Helping children and Parents Develop a Positive mindset |
| 10/05/23 | Self-Regulation Objectives: To describe nurturing parenting principles. To help parents understand what self-regulation is, the importance of self-regulation, and how children develop self-regulation. To provide parents with specific ways they can help their children develop the self-regulation skills of goal setting, organization, and prioritizing. a. Self-Regulation Lesson 2 b. Self-Regulation Lesson 3 c. Self-Regulation Lesson 4 |
| 11/02/23 | Taming the Tech Monster Objectives: To help parents understand the positive and negative aspects of technology use in their families. To help parents realize how excessive technology use impacts their child’s intellectual and emotional development. To help parents develop a plan for managing both their use of technology and overseeing the safe, appropriate use of technology for their children. |
| 12/07/23 | Managing Anger with-in the Family Objectives: To help parents understand the emotion of anger and the range of that emotion. To help parents realize that everyone gets angry from time to time, and that it is how that anger is expressed that sometimes causes problems. To guide parents in developing strategies to manage their own anger that they can then pass on to their children |
Parent Café Video Library
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Parent Cafe Previews
Check out the videos below to preview clips from past Parent Café Facebook live events.