C Clarke Topics

Christie's Topics:

Leadership Skills
A Parent's Guide to Cyber Safety: How to Navigate Today's Techno-Fears

Becoming a Love & Logic Parent
Target Audience: Parents with children of all ages, mental health professionals, and educators working with families.
This program qualifies for and is accepted by Illinois Department of Health and Family Services as Foster Care credit. I. Course Goals
This course is designed to help participants learn skills for:
A. Creating home environments that stimulate responsibility, resiliency, and academic achievement.
B. Preventing misbehavior.
C. Avoiding power struggles while setting limits.
D. Teaching character and responsibility through modeling and the application of logical consequences instead of punishment.
E. Teaching children healthy problem-solving skills.
F. Staying calm in stressful parenting situations.
G. Helping children become prepared to resist drugs, alcohol, violence, and other dangerous behaviors.
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Early Childhood Parenting
"Creating Happy Families and Responsible (0-6 year old) Kids"
The original Becoming a Love & Logic Parent workshop series was so successful that this program was designed specifically for the younger set! Parents love this creative and exciting workshop consisting of 5 modules which helps them develop skills that will:
Show their tots that whining and arguing does not pay.

Put an end to misbehavior in public.
Smooth-out mornings and bedtimes.
Calm sibling bickering and battles.
Take the battle out of meal times, tooth brushing, bathing, etc.
Make potty training fun.
Teach respect, responsibility, and self-discipline.
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Grand Parenting
“Good connections through good communication”
A joy, a delight, a challenge. There IS a way to navigate the waters with tact, sensitivity, humor, and strength to build a better bond with both your children and your grandchildren.
Discover strategies for dealing with:
power struggles house rules setting limits
long-distance g-parenting baby-sitting divorce
the 3-generation home playing favorites discipline problems
Here are the keys to building better bonds with grand children and their parents through tact, sensitivity, patience, and joy to help generations live happily ever after!
Guaranteed to improve relationships with adult kids and grands! New skills put the fun back in grand parenting!
Developed by Christie Clarke – facilitator, mother of 4, grandmother of 4, teacher, parenting coach - she shares simple, easy to apply, navigational tools to use immediately.
This is an the interactive workshop that will change the way you look at and live this wonderful “time of your life!” It's grand!
effective tips
practical guidelines
pearls of wisdom
encouragement
humor!
GOALS:
To help grand parents develop and nurture healthy, loving, enjoyable, fulfilling relationships with their children and grandchildren.

To give grandparents practical, usable skills and techniques that can enhance relationships and improve problem areas with their children and grandchildren (long and short term)
To provide grandparents with as much guidance as possible to help their grandchildren develop into responsible, caring young people and adults.
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Leadership Skills
Low Stress Strategies for
Highly Successful Scout Leaders
(Karate Instructors, Sunday School Teachers,
Choral Directors, Camp Counselors, Youth Group Directors, Sports Coaches...anyone who deals with groups of kids!)
Just loving scouting, being a former scout, raising your own kids, having a desire to help children succeed isn't enough. Managing a troop requires a different skill set to elicit the cooperation necessary to help the group to succeed, the kids to feel comfortable, and the leaders to actually have FUN leading.
An easy to understand, simple to implement, incredibly effective program, this excellent in-service tool is a must for every leader. Nine classes, or “modules,” are included in this entertaining multimedia program. Each one takes approximately two hours to present and contains powerful skills that can be applied immediately. This program builds strong troops where leaders love to lead and scouts want to follow.
The workshop setting utilizes interactive discussion, workbooks, and 34 video stories shared by Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay from years of success in working with educators, students, and parents around the country.
Have FUN at meetings!
Module by module, the participants will learn about:
1. Neutralizing Arguing
2. Delayed Consequences
3. Empathy
4. The Recovery Process
5. Developing Positive Leader/Scout Relationships
6. Setting Limit with Enforceable Statements
7. Using Choices to Prevent Power Struggles
8. Quick and Easy Preventative Interventions
9. Guiding Scouts to Own and Solve Their Own Problems
Cultivate these simple skills and enjoy leading, directing, teaching, coaching again!
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"A Parent's Guide to Cyber Safety: How to Navigate Today's Techno-Fears."
It’s not just a matter of slapping controls and blockers on your ISP.
There are two kinds of filters: thoughts and devices. You can have them both - practical software solutions and the ultimate protection: parent-child communication. In addition to our lists of kid-safe browsers, cyber skills, and social networking cautions, we have added hints for raising responsible children and suggestions for how to talk so your children will listen. Be savvy, not sorry! Keep your kids safe!
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Contact Christie Clarke:

Christie Clarke
Director
Out-A-Box Parenting Inc.

(847) 888-8892 wk

www.outaboxparenting.com

cclarke@outaboxparenting.com