Do you feel like you have lost control of your role as a parent? Do you find yourself yelling at your child more often than laughing with your child? Do you feel you have lost touch with your child…don’t feel as close as you’d like? Do you feel frustrated…find yourself saying the same things over and over with no results? Would you like for your relationship with your child to go back to the “way it used to be?”

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, Child-Parent-Relationship (C-P-R) Training Can Help! Learn skills that will make a difference in your life and the life of your child.

In 10 weeks, you will learn how to:

* Regain control as a parent
* Help your child develop self-control
* Effectively discipline & limit inappropriate behavior
* Understand your child’s emotional needs
* Communicate more effectively with your child

In 10 weeks, you will see a noticeable difference in your relationship with your child, your child’s behavior, your ability to respond effectively, and your enjoyment with parenting.

What Is Child-Parent-Relationship Training (C-P-R)?

Child-Parent-Relationship (C-P-R) Training is a special 10-session parent training program to help strengthen the relationship between a parent and a child by using 30-minute at-home playtimes once a week. Play is important to children because it is the most natural way children communicate. Adults talk about their experiences and express what they think and how they feel. Toys are like words for children and play is their language. Therefore, parents are taught to have special structured 30-minute playtimes with their child using a kit of carefully selected toys in their own home. Through the language of play, parents learn how to respond empathically to their child’s feelings, build their child’s self-esteem, help their child learn self-control and self-responsibility, and set therapeutic limits during these special playtimes.

How Can It Help My Child?

During the at-home special playtimes, you will build a different kind of relationship with your child, and your child will discover that she is capable, important, understood, and accepted – just as she is. When children experience a play relationship in which they feel accepted, understood, and cared for, they play out many of their problems and, in the process, release tensions, feelings, and burdens. Your child will then feel better about herself and will be able to discover her own strengths and assume greater self-responsibility as she takes charge of play situations.

How your child feels about herself will make a significant difference in her behavior. In the special playtimes where you learn to focus on your child rather than your child’s problem, your child will begin to react differently because how your child behaves, how she thinks, and how she performs in school are directly related to how she feels about herself. When your child feels better about herself, she will behave in more self-enhancing ways rather than self-defeating ways.

C-P-R Training is a 10-session program for parents of children aged 2 and up.

Training begins Thursday, July 16th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm in Boulder and will be facilitated by Christine Horn, MA and Wendy Conquest, LPC.

There will be a Denver training in the Fall.

For more information or to register call (720)220-4788 * NOW – Spaces are Limited!