Positive Guidance for Hard-to-Handle Kids: Parenting Education for Foster Parents

Program Description

Foster parents face numerous and complex challenges. Discipline may be one of the most difficult tasks in striving to positively guide a foster child. Foster children come from varied and uncertain pasts and they bring with them a unique set of challenges. This lesson will discuss some of the behaviors of hard-to-handle kids and explore some of the prevention and intervention strategies parents can use to guide their foster child's behavior.

Program Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Identify hard-to-handle behaviors and temperament traits.
  2. Learn positive discipline techniques for hard-to-handle behaviors.
  3. Gain confidence in their role as a foster parent

Intended Audience

Foster parents of children ages 3 - 12.

Guides and handouts

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