Nurturing Parenting
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Stronger. Happier. Closer.
707-279-6738
Nurturing Parenting
Would your family
benefit from a
Nurturing Parenting Class?
I am sometimes frustrated by my child’s
behavior.
Yes
No
There are times when I am not sure how
to deal with my child.
Yes
No
I want to help my child succeed in life.
Yes
No
I sometimes yell at my child because I
don’t know what else to do.
Yes
No
I have felt overwhelmed by
being a parent.
Yes
No
If you answered “Yes” to any
of these questions, Nurturing
Parenting will help you!
Nurturing Parenting
Partner Agencies:
First 5 Lake County
Lake Family Resource Center
Lake County Department of
Social Services
A Healthy Start Program—Lake County Office of Education
PRACTICAL TOOLS TO HELP ANY FAMILY BECOME STRONGER, HAPPIER, CLOSER.
Building a
happy, healthy
family is every
parent’s goal.
Yet many
parents struggle
with problems
they were never
taught to solve,
until now.
The Nurturing Parenting Program helps families:
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Establish discipline through family rules and rewards.
Learn new parenting skills.
Improve children’s behaviors and attitudes.
Meet new friends.
Parents learn about nurturing parenting skills and ways to
encourage their children’s success through good
communication and life skills.
Children learn using puppets, music, art and discussions.
What is Nurturing Parenting?
We aren’t born with parenting skills.
We learn them, just like any other skill.
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a program
administered by Health Start through the Lake
County Office of Education that offers classes
to parents and their children to help them learn
new ways to work together as a family.
Nurturing Parenting is based on the
philosophy that parenting is learned — the
way parents were raised directly influences the
way they raise their children. The program
helps parents learn nurturing behaviors in
place of others that are hurtful to children.
All families are welcome and encouraged
to participate in the Nurturing Parenting
class that best suits their family’s needs.
Classes are free, fun, and effective.
Following is a brief listing of the available
classes that may be offered throughout
Lake County. Call for a current schedule.
ABC’s of Parenting (4-7 Years Old)
Who Participates in
Nurturing Parenting Programs?
Parents from all walks of life enroll in the
program to make their families stronger and
closer. This program helps families understand
nurturing behaviors and learn how those
behaviors can work within their unique family
environment.
Learn ways to increase your child’s self-esteem and selfconcept, establish discipline through family rules and
rewards, express anger and stress in healthy ways, make
healthy choices, alternatives to spanking.
7 week class
Prenatal Families
Learn ways to bond with your baby by examining the
adjustments to being pregnant, discussing the physical and
emotional changes occurring, strengthening the bonds
between partners, learning ways to nurture oneself and
learn infant massage.
9 week class
Weekly Drop-In Classes
Call for schedule. 707-279-6738
Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers
Learn about recognizing and understanding feelings, infant
and child massage, nurturing parenting routines, child
development, alternatives to hitting, and ways to build selfesteem and self-concept in self and children.
24 week class
School-Age Children (5-11 Years Old)
Learn nurturing ways to encourage appropriate behaviors,
build self-concept and self-esteem and have fun as a
family. Setting family rules, choices and consequences,
communicating feelings, praising children, discipline and
rewards.
15 week class
Parents & Adolescents (13-19 Years Old)
Learn nurturing communication strategies, how to recognize each other’s needs, how to understand adolescence,
and ways to build personal power, self-esteem and selfconcept. Also discuss sex, sexuality, AIDS, suicide and
peer pressure.
12 week class
Families in Substance Abuse Treatment &
Recovery (No children’s group with this program.)
Assists parents in strengthening their own recovery and
within their families, and building a nurturing family lifestyle.
6 week class