Parenting Curricula
The PPE curriculum is
founded on the principles of family systems, life span development and creating long term
change. Its flexibility allows it to be easily tailored to all stages of parenting for
diverse populations and varied settings. Parenting skills cannot be developed or
significantly changed through exposure to a single parenting series but rather through
continued involvement in classes in a supportive environment throughout the child rearing
years.
The core curriculum prepares
parent educators to work with families throughout their parenting experience. Supplemental
curricula address more complex and challenging areas of need. For a
sample PPE curriculum module, click below.
Core Curriculum Table of
Contents
- Section 1. Understanding Your Role as a
Parent
- Understanding the family system as a
whole
- Recognizing traits in a healthy family
- Identifying your role as the primary
model for your child
- Section 2. Developing Trust within the
Family
- Developing and maintaining trusting
relationships within the family
- Understanding attachment and bonding
between parent and child
- Rebuilding trust that has been broken
- Parenting from a distance
- Section 3. Communicating within the
Family
- Communicating effectively with children
at all stages
- Expressing and communicating feelings and
emotions
- Developing Digital
Responsibility
- Identifying family communication patterns
- Communicating with children about
sexuality
- Dealing with anger in the family
- Helping children learn to manage and
resolve conflict peacefully
- Defusing family
disagreement
- Section 4. Building Self-Esteem within
the Family
- Building and nurturing self-esteem in
children
- Knowing and valuing the child as an
individual
- Building and nurturing self-esteem in
parents
- Encouraging children's growth in
social skills
- Helping children learn to make healthy
choices
- Teaching children kindness and respect
for other children
- Helping children learn to handle
competition
- Understanding the powerful influences of
gangs on children
- Understanding the complexities of
bullying and social cruelty in children
- Section 5. Understanding Parenting and
Power
- Establishing authority as a parent
- Choosing effective discipline techniques
- Giving children responsibility for
themselves
- Dealing with sibling rivalry
- Encouraging motivation in children
- Developing teamwork in a child's
educational experience
- Resolving homework issues
- Understanding how parenting patterns in
the early years set a course for the future
- Building a powerful parenting role to
prevent youth substance abuse
- Recognizing and responding to child
behaviors outside the norm
- Raising children of character
- Creating family memories:
Traditions, rituals and routines
- Raising a financially
responsible child
- Section 6. Accepting and Growing
through Natural Transitions in the Life Cycle
- Understanding developmental stages in
children
- Moving through the stages of parenting
- Dealing with stress in the family
- Helping children handle peer pressure
- Easing transitions into adolescence
- Raising twenty-first
century children from day one
- Strengthening the father/child
relationship
- Parenting the second time: Grandparents
rearing grandchildren
- Section 7. Accepting and Growing
through Unexpected Transitions in the Life Cycle
- Coping with mobility and relocation
- Helping children cope with change and
loss
- Growing through single parenting
- Growing through step-parenting
- Understanding the complexities of teenage
parents
- Balancing parenting and a career
- Meeting needs in the family with a
special child
- Building resiliency in children
- Creating cultural harmony in the family:
balancing the challenges of bi-cultural parenting
- Parenting to
counterbalance outside influences: When pop culture collides with family values
- Are our children growing up too fast?
- Section 8. Parent
Educator Facilitation Information
- Section 9. Program
Implementation Information
- Section 10. Evaluations
and Reporting Forms (English and Spanish)
Stand Alone Series
Curriculum included with Core Curriculum:
- Parenting the Strong
Willed Child
- Building Bright Futures -
Parenting the Child with Attention Deficits
Parenting Quick Tips
In today's climate
of sound bites and instant messaging, information must be available in a variety of
user-friendly forms. Recognizing that parents can benefit from concise reminders of
parental behaviors that work, many of our curricula modules have one or more accompanying
Quick Tips, bulleted and brief, appropriate for the bathroom mirror
or refrigerator. PPE publishes new Quick Tips every year, each dealing with a
particular circumstance or age-defined behavior. PPE subscribers have the exclusive
right to reproduce Quick Tips for distribution to parents. For a list of Quick Tips, click here.
Turning Points
A Curriculum for incarcerated parents and parents transitioning back
into society and their families.
Turning Points is a parenting curriculum designed to address the unique
issues facing families in which a parent is incarcerated. Its targeted
audience is parents serving sentences generally for lesser degree
offenses, those who will be released in a matter of months or a few
years and who will thus be resuming their parenting roles. This
curriculum includes 15 lessons and is available in English and Spanish.
Session
Titles:
- Understanding Your Parenting Style
- Dealing with Complex Emotions in Children
- How to Communicate from a Distance with Children and Their Caregivers
- Rebuilding Trust that Has Been Broken
- Dealing with Children's Anger
- Learning Positive Discipline Techniques
- Self-Esteem in Children and Their Parents
- Keeping Children Safe from Harm: Preventing Child Abuse and Accidents
- Setting Developmentally Appropriate Expectations for Children
- Understanding Temperaments within the Family
- A
Chance for New Beginnings
- Reuniting a Family: Transitioning Back into Family Life
- Encouraging Children's Success in School
- Becoming a Positive Role Model for Children
- Rearing Children of Strong Moral Character
Turning Points
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