Archives: Classes

  2. Abriendo Puertas

    Learn how to support your children in school through understanding how they grow and develop, and working with the school to get what’s best for your children.

  3. Active Parenting of Teens

    Learn and laugh with other parents as you turn the challenges of raising a teenager into opportunities for growth. You’ll learn positive ways to relate to your teen by increasing your knowledge of the developmental needs of adolescents, thereby better understanding their behavior.

  4. Living with Your Middle Schooler

    What makes middle schoolers tick? How can you help your child develop responsibility, stay engaged in school, and weather the social turmoil of these years? Using presentations, discussions, and activities this class for parents of middle schoolers helps parents build an open, supportive relationship as their children head into adolscence.

  5. Effective Parenting of Teens

    This class provides parents with the skills to improve family communication while reducing family conflicts and teens’ negative behaviors and attitudes. Increase your abilities in communication, supervision, conflict resolution, and positive discipline, while enjoying the support of other parents experiencing similar issues.

  6. Nurturing Parenting

    Join us in learning to build skills that nurture your child using empathy and positive communication. Sessions cover stages of child development, understanding why your child behaves the way they do, and explore what types of discipline will work best at different ages.

  7. Make Parenting a Pleasure

    Do you want to stress less and have more fun as a parent? In this 10-week class, local families of children birth to 10-years will explore ways to Make Parenting a Pleasure.

    Learn how to take care of yourself during the demands of parenting and ways to talk and interact better with your family. Learn techniques for disciplining and guiding your young children in a positive way.

    Class offerings in Lebanon and Philomath.

  8. The Incredible Years

    Build a more cooperative relationship with your child. Learn how to make clear family rules. Prevent behavior problems and learn how to deal with any problems your child has already. Help your child get along with friends and do better in school. Watch video clips to see good and bad ways for parents to act with their children. Learn new ideas and have time to share with other parents.

  9. Live & Learn with Your Preschooler – Parent Cooperative Preschools 

    Identify your strengths as a parent, take better care of yourself and discover new ways to make parenting easier. Develop a better understanding of your child’s behavior. Learn ways to discipline that fit your child’s age. The class uses activities and video clips and there is plenty of time to talk with other parents.

  10. Live & Learn Toddler Classes

    Meet other parents in the community and discuss the latest ideas about how to support your growing child during their first and second year with classes designed especially for parents of children under the age of 3 years.