about Center for Life Enhancement

Children are amazing blessings in this world and raising them is the most rewarding and difficult job you will ever have. It is also one that comes only with on-the-job training. Do you ever wonder what you did with the “tech-support” phone number your child must have come with when he/she was born? Have you had days you would call it quits if you could?

Children have an uncanny knack for creating enough chaos to have your level of stress shoot off the charts. One moment you and your children are laughing and getting along great - the next moment World War Three breaks out in your living room. Do you ever wonder what happened to the calm, relaxed home you always dreamed of?

Does this sound familiar?

Your friend stops by to chat. You sit down and start catching up. Like clockwork your 4 year old starts tugging on your sleeve; she wants you to go with her to get her favorite baby doll. You stop in mid-sentence, turn to her, and tell her try to get it herself or play with another toy.

She leaves and seconds later she is back with another request. This continues for 10 minutes. Your frustration builds. You can’t hold a decent conversation because you can’t complete a sentence without being interrupted. Finally you explode. You’re yelling, your daughter is crying, and your friend is slipping out the door.

Now – what if you knew how to resolve this situation without the yelling and the crying? Let’s take a look at another version of this story:

Your friend stops by to chat. You sit down and start catching up. Like clockwork your 4 year-old starts tugging on your sleeve; she wants you to go with her to get her favorite baby doll.

Because you are trained to recognize this as “ undue attention” getting behavior, you continue your conversation and make no eye contact with your child. However, you reach down and begin to gently rub her back – giving her human contact but not allowing her to interrupt.You continue for another few minutes:

1. Saying nothing to her
2. Making no eye contact
3. To give her loving contact

Eventually your daughter finds a book and sits down quietly flipping through its pages or goes on her way to play.

Can it really be this simple? YES!!! So how do you learn such effective techniques used in the second scenario?

It’s easier than you may think –

At the Center for Life Enhancement we offer a course called REDIRECTING CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR (RCB). This five-week course is based on the popular book Redirecting Children’s Behavior by: Kathryn Kvols.

“The best, most useful book on parenting, I’ve ever read.”
Jack Canfield, parent and author, Chicken Soup for the Soul

During the course, you will be taught wonderful new ways to interact with children. These techniques will not just be talked about but will be actively demonstrated. You will be given the chance to role-play situations and practice in class what you have learned. Adults get to bring their questions and individual situations to gain new methods of handling them. Our certified parenting instructors will help prepare you for the difficult situations before they occur.

In the RCB class, you will learn over a hundred effective and empowering techniques to use when dealing with children. However beware, it is not the purpose of the course to arm adults with techniques to use to control children. Instead, the techniques are taught for the purpose of changing the atmosphere in the home and adult/child interaction. If you practice what is taught, you can actually change your home or encounter with children from one of yelling, fighting, chaos, and frustration to a calm place where everyone works together, has mutually respect, talks, listens and remembers to laugh.

You will gain skills to:

Resolve conflicts without power struggles
Reduce arguing and yelling with more time for fun and genuine interaction
Promote positive changes in kids’ disruptive behavior
Create a home environment based on mutual respect and shared responsibility
Assist children in becoming self-sufficient and self-confident
Help you be calmer, and use less energy in dealing with kids
Grow your confidence in your parenting ability

Benefits to Kids:

Experience having calm, happier, less stressed parents/adults and home
Understand the connection between rights and responsibilities
Gain good decision making and problem solving skills
Become self reliant and self confident
Open channels of communication between themselves and adults
Become comfortable with openly sharing their feelings and emotions
Experience a secure sense of belonging and significance

Who Takes RCB?

Parents/Step-parents
Teachers
Day care providers
Grandparents
Healthcare workers
Counselors
Foster parents
Anyone who interacts with children

All will find rewarding new tools to assist them in their dealings with children of all ages.

RCB Details:

RCB is usually held one night per week for 5 weeks. Each session is three hours in length. The tuition for the course is $150 per person or $195 per couple.

This investment in children includes:

15 hours of instruction
Personal copy of Kathryn Kvols – Redirecting Children’s Behavior
Redirecting Children’s Behavior Workbook for use before and after the course
Handouts and work sheets you can use to refresh your memory and brush-up on techniques long after the course is over.
$25 discount coupon for THE LIVING COURSE

REDIRECTING CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR is offered in association with the International Network for Children and Families through which all our instructors are certified.

We are currently accepting enrollments for the next course at the Center for Life Enhancement located in Monroe, MI. Spots for this course fill up quickly so we invite you to enroll now to reserve your spot.

To enroll or for more information email us at Barb@TheCLE.net and a representative from the Center for Life Enhancement will contact you. Or you can contact us by phone at 734.243.0030

For more information on RCB check the web-site for International Network for Children and Families.

SEE SOME REDIRECTING CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR TESTIMONIALS