Positive Parenting - Dealing with Power Struggles (Udemy.com)
"No I Won't and You Can't Make Me!"
Created by: Debbie Godfrey
Last updated August 2023
What you will learn
- Understand why kids misbehave
- Identify a power struggle vs. other types of misbehavior
- Effectively stop a power struggle with a child using one of the eight ways you will learn to get out of power struggles
- Choose any of eleven ways you will learn to prevent future power struggles
- Use the most important tool a parent has to prevent all types of misbehavior in your kids, including power struggles
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews357#488 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length1.5 hoursshorter than 71% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2023earlier than 64% of them
Course Description
Here is what a few participants had to say about this video class series:
"I was able to start using knowledge as soon as my son came home from preschool and we had the best night we've had in a long time."
"First class information on a crucial topic. Very helpful for parenting little or older kids..."
"Good advice and tips how to actually resolve the situation."
"Very helpful...
new points of view.... I think about our relationships with my son...
I learned a lot about preventing power struggling .... thank you so much..."
In this fun and engaging course you will learn:
What we do that makes us be ineffective, lose our childs respect, and have them tune us outQuestions to ask yourself in the midst of a power struggle that work like magicThe cure for parent deafness in children Ways to develop self-motivationHow to minimize the hassles, tantrums, and tearsAn approach to feel calmer and experience more joy in parenting
These videos are fun demonstrations -- NOT boring lectures. You will learn through these exercises how to respond when a child is screaming for a cookie or a toddler won't stay in bed. Also includes solutions on how to get your child to take out the trash (without having to ask), and other real-life examples of your common power struggles. Who this course is for:
Parents expecting or having children of any age, from toddlers to teensStep-parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, Nannies, BabysittersTeachers, Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers, or anyone who interacts with children
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
357 Reviews
Debbie Godfrey
Hello, welcome to my Udemy Biography page! My name is Debbie Godfrey. I am a certified Parent Educator and have over 24 years of expertise in the parenting education field. Through my business Positive Parenting, I teach the Redirecting Childrens Behavior parenting skills class and the Redirecting for a Cooperative Classroom training in schools and community centers around the world. In 2013, I began teaching my classes and workshops via teleconferences and webinars, so I now have parents participating from all over the globe. Most recently I conducted parenting workshops for Google employees in France, the UK, and IMEA via Google Hangouts.
I have served many organizations, including C.A.A.N. (Child Abuse and Neglect), Casa Pacifica, Conejo Valley Substance Abuse Prevention Authority, Child Development Resources of Ventura County, the California State Foster Parent Association, Southern California Mothers of Twins, the Ventura County Wellness Program, and the Oxnard and Ventura School Districts. In April, 2007, I conducted teacher trainings at eight schools during a 30-day period in five states across India. I also taught eight parent education workshops in Beijing, China during a 2-week period in February 2008. I am the past director of Foster & Kinship Care Education at Ventura College and the regional Instructor Trainer for the Red
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Reviews
By Sowmya K on 11/22/2020
Good course on parenting I have been looking for
By Uchechukwu Augustian Onwuna on 11/15/2020
A good match for me is to know how to deal with my son on power struggle and how to act and behave towards my son, when there is a power struggle between us.
By Latina M Williams on 11/15/2020
Yes, extremely informative and easy to follow along with role-playing
By Lywan kummer on 10/21/2020
This is great for younger kids. Less so with teens. and getting them to listen and do what we need them to do.
By Aya B Kawasaki on 10/18/2020
I have heard this before, but it is good to learn again.
By Heather Christensen on 10/15/2020
Good advise
By B L on 10/10/2020
Debbie provides a very interesting perspective on how to manage relationship with a child. I would tend to think that the technique is also applicable to having a proper relationship with the child in adults around you! Ws fun going through this !!
By Destiny Granger on 10/2/2020
Haven't really learned anything to help with my children quite yet. But learn some info
By Fabricio Fontes on 9/13/2020
Excellent! These are great tools and techniques
By Tim Watts on 8/16/2020
Struggling with step children and discipline on basic manners and needed support as was losing my temper
By Subhasree Chattopadhyay on 7/27/2020
good
By Trevor Clere on 7/9/2020
so far so good. 13.5 y/o teen age girl with serious power struggles
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Overall Score : 88 / 100






