Building Our Strengths as Parent Educators

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Building Our Strengths as Parent Educators

• Dr. H. Wallace Goddard

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National Extension Parent Education Model
Content Model

• Care for Self
• Understand
• Guide

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National Extension Parent Education Model
Content Model

• Nurture
• Motivate
• Advocate

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National Extension Parenting Educators
Framework Delivery Model

• Grow
• Frame
• Develop

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National Extension Parenting Educators
Framework Delivery Model

• Embrace
• Educate
• Build

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Recommended Books

• Between Parent and Child Haim Ginott
• Strongly recommended by the Authoritative Guide
  to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health
• This is the most important book ever written on
  parenting and the emotional world of children. It
  is a must that every parent and teacher master
  the skills taught in these pages. Dr. John M.
  Gottman, author of Raising an Emotionally
  Intelligent Child

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Recommended Books

• Soft Spoken Parenting
• Dr. H. Wallace Goddard
• A practical approach to parenting containing 50
  strategies for not losing your temper with your
  kids

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Recommended Resources

• Principles of Parenting
• http//www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/H/HE-0673/
• 14 pamphlets (4-8 pages each) in the original
  series
• Evaluated in a quasi-experimental design and
  found to be effective in changing parents and
  children
• Educators guides
• Adopted by several states

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Recommended Resources

• A
• Parenting
• Journey
• Summarizes key elements of parenting (from NEPEM)
  in 1,000 words at 6th grade reading level
  organized into six communities with 19 points
  of interest

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Recommended Resources

• A Parenting Journey Travel Guides
• One for each community plus a problem-solving
  guide

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Recommended Resources

• Travel Guides expand on the points on the map,
  recommend specific behaviors, encourage user to
  make a plan, and recommend additional reading

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Recommended Resources

• A Parenting Journey Additional Resources
• www.arfamilies.org 35 additional informational
  units on parenting
• Parenting Self Assessment can be taken many
  times
• DVD 30 minutes overviewing the Parenting Journey
• Additional programs
• Marriage Garden
• See the World through My Eyes
• The Personal Journey

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Recommended Resources

• Guiding Children Successfully
• 12 1 hour video programs produced by the
  Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network
  (AETN), in partnership with the University of
  Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
• Aired nationally on public television stations
• Used in childcare provider training.

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Your strengths as a parent educator

• A solid knowledge base
• Useful resources books, programs, people
• A lifetime of feeling, observing, and collecting
• Personal convictions and enthusiasm
• Continued learning

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Your comments or questions?

• If you have questions, e-mail me at
  wgoddard_at_uaex.edu