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The Parent Support Committee is pleased to announce its 3rd  parenting seminar: 

“Secrets of Effective Discipline”.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
presented by:

Ronald Morrish, Author of “Secrets of Discipline,” “With all Due Respect,” and “Flip Tips”

Who is Ronald Morrish?
Ronald Morrish has been an educator and behaviour specialist since 1972. Since 1997, he has been providing professional development programs for teachers, and speaks to parent groups and child care providers, internationally about raising responsible children without deal-making, arguments, and confrontations.
Ron Morrish has written and published three books. His first book, Secrets of Discipline, provides discipline advice to parents. His second book, With All Due Respect, focuses on the keys for improving a teacher’s personal discipline skills, and building effective school discipline as a team. His latest book, Flip Tips, provides discipline tips and helpful hints to parents and educators.
Mr. Morrish’s holds a B.A in Psychology from Queen’s University, a B. Education from Lakehead University, as well as a Master’s degree in education from the University of Toronto.
 For more information on Ron Morrish, please visit his website: realdiscipline.com
 
Why Discipline?
La Citadelle’s holistic approach to education encompasses the concept of "Real discipline", which refers to the techniques that educators use to teach children to be respectful, responsible and cooperative. The problem is that today's popular discipline uses different techniques. As a result, many children are becoming manipulative and defiant.
For the past 25 years, experts have told us that children should be allowed to make their own choices. They said this would raise their self-esteem and teach them responsibility. The role of adults was to use rewards to encourage good choices and consequences to discourage poor ones. It wasn't very long before adults found themselves bargaining and negotiating with children just to get a little cooperation. Now, we're beginning to realize that children, given freedom of choice, tend to make choices we can't live with. Far too many are choosing to underachieve in school, to engage in high-risk behaviours, to be non-contributors in their home and school environments, and to use various means to take control. Clearly, today's popular discipline isn't doing the job it's supposed to do.
Real discipline does more than simply encourage good choices. It ensures that children are well-prepared for the choices that they are given. It gives adults the authority to make choices until their children are ready to make them on their own.
The easiest way to think about real discipline is to view it as having three parts.
1. Training children to comply with rules and limits and do what they are told to do by people in a legitimate position of authority.
2. Teaching children the skills and attitudes for being responsible and cooperative. Today's popular discipline assumes that children will learn their skills from the consequences provided by adults, when they feel that there will be no consequences, children will be unlikely to make the right choices.
3. Managing the choices children are given. Provide them with more and more choices as they get older so they learn how to handle growing independence. Today's popular discipline concentrates on this part to the exclusion of the other components.
 
With his 3 point plan, Ron Morrish will help us prepare our children to handle the choices they are given, and make sure they are ready to make educated choices. It is well-trained, well-taught children that handle choices responsibly and with respect for the rights and needs of others.
 How do I Participate
 
Because of the importance of the topic, La Citadelle and the PSC is offering this seminar (valued at $85 per person) free of charge to La Citadelle parents.

In order to tailor the workshops to your needs, please suggest general questions to be addressed during theworkshop.
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