Positive Discipline Workshops for Parents and Teachers

Positive Discipline for Parents and Teachers:

1-day Workshop entitled: 

Why Children Misbehave and What You Can Do About It
Saturday, May 4, 9:00 a.m. – 4.00 pm,
            at OneCircle Center; 3804 Littleton Street; Silver Spring

Cost:    $95 per person, $145 for couples. Includes free 30-minute coaching session ($60 value).
Bring-a-friend/Tell-a-friend reward: $15.    
To register online: http://onecirclemay4.eventbrite.com   

Nearly all families are confronted with themes such as getting up and to school on time, doing homework, helping out in the house, sibling fights, and so on. Positive Discipline workshops are designed for parents and teachers to illuminate principles and practices which foster mutual respect, joy and love. The experience, warmth and humor of workshop leader KC Hill, certified Positive Discipline Parent and Teacher Educator, creates an atmosphere of acceptance and support. A mixture of theoretical input and lively, fun activities gives the participants simple, effective parenting/teaching tools and the confidence to apply them on their own. Participants practice working out conflicts in a way that each person, adult and child, takes responsibility. When children are part of finding solutions to family problems, they can better master stressful situations in their school life and vice versa.

Why do kids do things that annoy others (especially their parents and siblings)? Can’t they see it just makes their own lives harder? Why do kids rebel? Why do they get locked into power struggles? Or just give up and feel hopeless and helpless? And what can we do to break those patterns?

Positive Discipline provides clear, logical answers to these questions, as well as tools that can change the dynamics that helped produce the misbehavior. In this workshop participants will learn the eye-opening answers and practice some of the most effective tools.

About the Organizer

KC Hill is father to 2 grown sons and husband to one grown wife, whom he met at Vassar College, where he graduated with a BS in Ecology-Conservation. Then:

“After college I started a chimney sweeping company, then was a self-employed computer teacher and consultant and finally went back to the University of Maryland to become a high school science teacher. In the summers I directed international summer camps (Luethi Peterson Camps, Inc.).

“When the kids were 5 and 7 Kathleen and I moved to Switzerland to work in a wonderful and unique boarding school (Ecole d’Humanité). This boarding school community was a perfect place to learn parenting skills. Not only did we have our own 2 boys to parent, but also 10 other children, who lived in our house. Then we became co-directors of the school and found ourselves in a parent role with many of our staff! So we had parenting in spades and made every mistake in the book. There’s nothing like mistakes for learning. When we discovered Positive Discipline, our work with kids became more enjoyable and more effective.

“We left the Ecole d’Humanité after 18 years and became certified to teach Positive Discipline classes and workshops. These are taught as part of Kathleen’s family coaching practice, which she called “PeaceWorks Coaching” because we believe so strongly that peace comes when responsible, caring children grow to adulthood.”