Redirecting Children's Behaviour Is based on Adlerian psychology and is strongly influenced by the work of Dr Rudolf Dreikurs, MD, author of "Children: The Challenge"

Kathryn Kvols wrote the book, "Redirecting Children's Behaviour" at the urging of parents whose children she worked with as a counsellor and educator.

She subsequently developed the course and her organisation The International Network for Children and Families has certified over a thousand parenting instructors in eleven countries .

Five weekly classes are held for a total of 15 hours of instruction. This allows adequate time to practice and master the concepts and techniques. Weekly goals are set by each participant. Problems and successes are shared in a warm, supportive environment.

WEEK 1

looks at factors that influence a child's personality, including birth order, managing parental stress, understanding sibling rivalry, tools for handling sibling fights, healthy self-esteem.

WEEK 2

Building your child's self-esteem continued, developing an effective parenting style (neither autocratic or permissive), teaching self-motivation and self-management.

The four goals of behaviour: attention, power, revenge and avoidance, and tools for minimising power struggles (based on the work of Dr Rudolf Dreikurs), handling a hurtful child, redirecting attention, including roleplaying typical scenarios.

Handling feelings, listening skills, natural and logical consequences, punishment and rewards vs redirecting.

Redirecting in the family, parenting as a team, democratic family techniques. And most importantly we focus on keeping a good thing going.