A KOINOS  
LEARNING EVENT FOCUSING ON
TRANSFORMATIONAL PARENTING 

“I just want my home to be a place of peace - a place where we treat each other kindly.  I am so tired of all the conflict.”  Does this sound like you?

Scripture gives parents the responsibility for training children in the way they should go. Yet few of us have figured out how  to accomplish this task. We request, repeat, remind, bargain, reason, lecture, argue, yell, and threaten.  We use time outs, take away privileges, assign extra chores or spank. Sometimes, in our frustrated effort to control, we even ridicule. And through all this, we worry about how our children will turn out.

The purposes of a seminar on transformational parenting include: 
§        Identifying, and measuring the effectiveness of methods we currently use to train our children. Are these methods working? Using them, what are we really teaching?
§        Supporting one another as we confess our weakness and submit ourselves to the transforming work of God.
§        Learning to parent our children as God parents us.  

The parenting skills taught include:
§        Enforcing clear, firm, and effective boundaries
§        Ending conflicts, arguing, and power struggles
§        Establishing rules that encourage cooperation
§        Teaching children important problem-solving skills
§        Applying logical consequences of misbehavior

In a half day format, this seminar introduces basic concepts and provides practice in using several techniques.

In a format of eight to ten ninety minute classes, participants learn the concepts more fully and receive greater opportunity to practice skills, and problem solve current parenting dilemmas.

Seminar facilitator: Jerrie Froelich is the Pastor of Children and Families at Shoreline Free Methodist Church, has taught grades 4-12 for 20 years, and has been parenting five adopted children for 17 years. 

For more information on this learning event, contact Dr. Phil Bence at the KOINOS office (206-546-5446 or koinos@verizon.net)

******Do you have more ideas for potential seminars in a series on family relationships? If so, contact us.

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