respectful parent, parent effectiveness training with Kelly Meier

Parent Effectiveness Training Workshops

Two Hour Workshops in Scripps Ranch

with Kelly Meier

How to Listen to Understand 

How to Talk so Kids Listen the First Time


Wednesday - May 22nd: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Jerabek Elementary Auditorium, Scripps Ranch Open to the Public


Collaborative Family Problem Solving


Wednesday - May 29th: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Jerabek Elementary Auditorium, Scripps Ranch Open to the Public

The Most Common Problems Parents Face...

The Most Common Problems Parents Face...

Parent Effectiveness Training Workshops

Two Hour Workshops in Scripps Ranch

with Kelly Meier

How to Listen to Understand 

How to Talk so Kids Listen the First Time

Friday - May 3rd: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

or

Wednesday - May 22nd: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Jerabek Elementary Auditorium, Scripps Ranch

for Jerabek Parents Only

Collaborative Family Problem Solving

Friday - May 10th: 9:30am - 11:30am

or

Wednesday - May 29th: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Jerabek Elementary, FFO Room Scripps Ranch

Open to Public

Whether you’re the parent of a toddler or a teenager, you know that parenting can be challenging–even overwhelming at times.


Unfortunately, children don’t come with an instruction manual. And, being a parent doesn’t always mean that you automatically or instinctively know what to do. 


Maybe you’ve been struggling with how to parent better or maybe you’ve already been parenting respectfully but feel like something is missing. This area of communication is often the missing link that can help your child feel understood and cooperative so your family can work together with everyone’s needs in mind.


Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) offers proven communication skills that work with a tangible framework that helps you stay on course. When they use these skills, parents are amazed with the dramatic improvement both in their families and in all their relationships.


P.E.T. helps stop tantrums, increases cooperation and enables children to solve their own problems. The visual aid framework helps people stay on task by easily identifying what skill to use.

P.E.T. aims to help both parents and children meet their needs, and maintain a relationship of warmth and respect.

For life.

What is P.E.T.?


Essentially, P.E.T. is a set of communication skills, embedded in a philosophy of valuing, and respect for, children. Parents learn how to:

  • Recognize "who owns the problem"
  • Listen so the others feel understood
  • Assert their needs without blaming or putting down
  • Deal with resistance
  • Handle conflict, so that both parties (parent and child) can live with the outcome – “no-lose conflict resolution”
  • Avoid the use of punishments or rewards
  • Influence children​
  • Skills for resolving values collisions

P.E.T. Principles


Children do not 'misbehave'

The concept that children do not 'misbehave', but instead behave simply to meet a need, is a revelation to many parents. Rather than labelling children as 'selfish', or making assumptions about their intent, P.E.T. asks that we try to understand our young person, and not take behavior personally. P.E.T. turns misbehavior around to being a problem of competing needs – parent and child’s.

Morning & Evening Workshops Starting May 3rd

Parent Effectiveness Training Workshops

 Take Your Parenting to the Next Level - Restore Peace & Joy to Your Family.

Workshop Info:

​​​​How to Listen to Understand and How To Talk So They'll Hear You the First Time

  • Recognizing what behavior is telling you
  • Who owns that problem, anyway?
  • How to talk to children about behavior so they will want to fix it & resist less
  • Common things we say that stop communication and what to say instead
  • How to listen to children so you can understand and help them succeed
  • How to help your children when they are upset (How to ease angry outbursts)
  • How to get your kids to listen the first time


Wednesday -  May 22nd

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Jerabek Elementary, Auditorium

Open to public


​​​​Family Problem Solving the Collaborative Way

  • The underlying problem that causes most family conflicts
  • How to solve problems from bedtime to screen-time
  • What exactly is a need and how is it different from a solution or want
  • How to work as a team to find solutions that everyone can agree on
  • How to restore peace around high tension topics
  • How to solve problems that happen over and over again for good
  • The six steps of problem-solving
  • This method of problem-solving is a life skill that will teach your kids to solve problems with siblings, friends, the classroom and one day the boardroom!

Wednesday - May 29th

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Jerabek Elementary, Auditorium, Scripps Ranch

Open to the Public


6 people min.

Workshop:

How to Listen to Understand and How To Talk So They'll Hear You the First Time

How to Listen to Understand and How To Talk So They'll Hear You the First Time
Single Person

Take your parenting to the next level


$

35

Wednesday - May 22nd 

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Jerabek Elementary, Auditorium Room

Scripps Ranch


Open to the Public

WORKSHOP:

Family Problem Solving the Collaborative Way

Family Problem Solving the Collaborative Way
Single Person

Take your parenting to the next level


$

35

Wednesday -  May 29th

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Jerabek Elementary, Auditorium

Scripps Ranch


Open to Public

Popular

How you and your family will benefit

  • Fewer power struggles–less tension, less resentment, more fun, more peace, more love.
  • They will learn self-discipline, self-control and an inner sense of personal responsibility (fewer tantrums, more initiative, and independence).
  • You will learn how to work with each other instead of against each other.
  • You will learn how to express the impact your children’s unacceptable behaviors have on you without blaming or shaming them (less resistance, much more cooperation).
  • Everyone can participate in rule-setting so all will feel motivated to comply with the rules.
  • Your children will feel free to discuss their problems and concerns with you instead of withdrawing. (Less shoulder shrugging, more mutual understanding, respect)

What Others Say


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Kelly has a knack for coming up with the right explanation that brings clear understanding to complex ideas. She “gets” parenting and it shines through in her class. It’s one thing to understand something, it’s another to successfully integrate into your life.


Maryann Jacobsen

Mom of two, Co-author – Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from Highchair to High school

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I learned more in just a few hours of PET training with Kelly than I did taking an entire Redirecting Children’s Behavior parenting course! The methods are particularly well-suited to meet the challenges of parenting gifted children. Their sensitive and highly perceptive natures respond well to this positive and respectful approach to parenting.


Mary Ann Hawke Ph.D
Chair, GATE District Advisory Committee, San Diego Unified School District

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I know this may seems like a simple principle, but it was diving much deeper into this philosophy that was a major take-away for me in Kelly’s class. The idea that some “problems” are things that I need to own was really a breakthrough. I know that using Kelly’s active listening techniques from P.E.T. work. It’s not parroting key gentle parenting phrases like things I have learned in the past either. It’s really listening to understand, which as it turns out is a pretty rad two-way street with my child. I wish I could carry Kelly in my pocket everywhere and can’t wait to take the next class in the series.


Tiffany 

Mom of a 6 yr old

Your Opportunity is HERE


All you have to do is grab it and dig in!

Joy is just around the corner.

Become the parent you want to be.

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Personal Parenting Coaching by Kelly Meier
Kelly Meier

I am a mom, Certified Parent Effectiveness Training Instructor and Parent Coach in San Diego, CA.


I help parents find the balance in parenting.


Children come in all varieties of temperaments and my knack for relating to even the strongest of wills allows me to see all children, as a capable, whole people and in turn helps me guide their parents to begin to see them in a less challenging way.


I have found my passion and my purpose in teaching others how to raise thoughtful, self-aware, and independent people. I hope you will come learn with me and take some of the “hard” out of parenting.