Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control

This Saturday, Janda and I had the opportunity to go to a wonderful training by the Beyond Consequences Institute.  The techniques we learned are for working with behaviors in children specifically those associated with trauma.  These techniques work for all children and all behaviors.  It focuses not on changing the child but changing how you deal with the child.  Anyone who is interested, I am more than willing to share what we learned!  There are several different Online Parenting classes that BCI puts on.  The next one is specifically for mothers.  It is entirely online for 5 days.  (saturday for 3 hours, sunday for 3 hours, monday, tuesday and Wed. night for 1 1/2 hours.) I believe it is in November.  If you are interested in registering, you can do so online at http://www.beyondconsequences.com/.  If there are enough people who are interested, we could probably set it up to do at school.  The evening portions are from 8:00-9:30pm.  If you have suffered a trauma or if your child has, I highly recommend this course!!  Trauma includes prenatal stress, birth trauma, abuse, neglect etc.  BC emphasises that if you haven't dealt with your past, you can't effectively help your child.  We all have triggers, specific things that our child or another child will do that will set us off (button pushing behaviors).  We need to learn to identify those triggers so that we can work through them in order to help our children.