Online Promotion Guide: Active Parenting Today Online Groups

Introduction

Introduction

This guide is a brief overview of some of the planning and promotional techniques that help ensure a successful Active Parenting Today Online Group program. Ultimately, though, the success of your online group program depends on you. Your sustained enthusiasm and unique insights into how best to spread the word about the Active Parenting Today Online Group program will guarantee that more parents will learn skills that help build stronger families.

Before trying to sell the idea of parenting education to your community, it's important to remember what the Active Parenting Today Online Group program can do for parents and children…

This program gives parents a six-week opportunity to focus on their family at a time and place that is convenient for them. All they need is the desire to improve their family life and the appropriate computer equipment. There's no need to juggle babysitting schedules or transportation. Most importantly, each session allows participants to identify daily family problems and then learn techniques for solving and preventing them.

By the end of the sixth session parents will have learned skills for:

1. Communicating effectively with their children

2. Preventing the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

3. Disciplining while teaching responsibility

4. Encouraging the development of self-esteem and character

5. Redirecting misbehavior

6. Encouraging nonviolent conflict resolution

Armed with these new skills parents are better prepared to raise children who are cooperative, responsible and able to resist peer pressure. These children are then empowered to become adults who live happy, independent and productive lives.