Parenting the Nurturing Way (Oshkosh)

This Parent Education Workshop if offered through Parent Connection, a program of Family Services of NEW.  www.familyservicesnew.org/parent-connection

Nurturing Parenting TM offers many evidence-based, positive parenting curriculums which provide instruction in a series of lessons focused on: developing appropriate expectations of children, responding with empathy, disciplining with dignity, supportive family roles and self-awareness, and increasing empowerment and independence.  This programming works well for all kinds of families: 2-parent, single parent, pre-natal, foster, adoptive, and blended or step-families who want to get along better, communicate more efficiently and establish closer, more nurturing bonds with one another.  Nurturing Parenting TM helps adult or adolescent participants identify areas in their parenting that can be strengthened through taking an Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory 2.1 (AAPI2).  It also re-assesses for parenting growth in the program on the 5 key parenting constructs that demonstrate levels of nurturing. 

Our class “Parenting the Nurturing Way”:

• uses a Nurturing Parenting TM curriculum which is an evidence-based, positive parenting curriculum for adult and adolescent parents of children prenatal-19;
• plans to meet for 11 consecutive weeks, participants should plan to attend all sessions and must not miss more than 2 scheduled sessions to get a certificate of completion;
• offers/asks that participating adults schedule an online, intake/orientation meeting via Zoom for either Friday, August 26th, Sept 9th or Sept 16th.  We will contact you to try to get this scheduled prior to the start of class.
• does have confidentiality and respectful conduct standards everyone must follow;
• provides a printed Parent Handbook with the $35 fee to those individually registered for the adult/adolescent parenting group. (If registering a second parent as a guest, you will both share one Parent Handbook.  Scholarships may be requested via email to waive the class fee. Do not register online if you will be requesting a scholarship.);
• when in-person and allowable, provides three Groups: an Adult/Adolescent Parent Group, a Kids Activity Group, and on-site Childcare Group which all must be pre-registered for;
• when in-person and allowable the Kids Activity Group is for ages 4-12 (must be potty trained) for those pre-registered (to a max of 8-10 kids, depends upon ages) and will have learning topics that mirror the Parent Group;
• when in-person and allowable the on-site Childcare Group provides care for children pre-registered who are not yet potty trained (to a max of 8-10 children, depends upon ages); and
• when in-person and allowable by safety protocols, offers a free, group meal served from 5:30 - 6:00 pm, participants must be registered and attending the classes to attend the meal.

Currently, we are not pre-screening for COVID-19 for our in-person classes, however, if that changes you and anyone attending must follow the specific location and host protocols which could change based upon CDC, Public Health and Safety, or Site Guidelines needed at the time of the workshop.  If public gathering restrictions are put back into place during the run of this in-person class, in-person could be canceled and we may only be able to provide an online adult/parent class.

For now, all our planned in-person groups (Adult/Adolescent Parent Group, Kids Activity Group and Childcare Group) are open until their registration deadlines or until their max enrollment is reached!  You will be notified later if your pre-registration of children for the Kids Activity Group or onsite Childcare Group cannot be met.  Our online registration will prompt you to pre-register any other adult parent/caregiver coming (that is not separately registering) as a guest by providing their name, phone number and email address.  You will also be prompted to pre-register the number of children and their ages that you want enrolled in the Kids Activity Group or on-site Childcare Group. Please also indicate in the comments if your pre-registered family members plan to participate in any or all of the group meals (if offered).    

Questions? Contact Jeni Rettler with Parent Connection-Oshkosh at 920-642-0042. 

In case of inclement weather, please check our workshop cancellation line before coming to class: 920-739-4226, ext. 154.
We reserve the right to cancel classes or groups for low registration.