Sidestepping the Power Struggle
From Practical to Profound
Do you want to get out of the nagging trap? Are you tired of your kids not listening? Are you wanting to go deeper with parenting? If you can't come to a LIFE Seminar, now you can bring Allison and the LIFE Team into your home. You can try chapter one which is a course in itself or jump in and sign up for the entire course. Each class is over a 60 minute video along with the complete book!
Chapter 1: I Gotta Be Me
Your Child's Temperament
This chapter covers every trait and all the challenges and strategies to go with them. Parents love it.
Chapter Two: Tell Me It's a Stage
Four Categories of Behaviour
In this section, we will consider some of the areas of child development that give parents the most difficulty, and some of the behaviours which bewilder and frustrate mom and dad to the point of wanting to retire early from their job as parents. We have problems with our child’s behavior when he is either too dependent or too independent for our liking. We agonize over the actions of our child when he shows signs of being unaware of other people’s feelings and handles his own feelings in destructive or immature ways. And we find ourselves questioning our own modelling when our child doesn’t measure up to our moral standards. This clip is a younger example, but we cover all ages including teens.
Chapter 3: Taming the Triggers
Temptation is one Trigger
Antecedent management is your most important parenting tool. Many people rely on consequences which can often be unfair and set kids up for failure. This chapter covers really important points including looking at family patterns.
Chapter 4: Responsibility Equals Freedom
How to win some cooperation!
Chapter Five : The Heart of Discipline
A clip on nagging
This chapter helps you identify what you might be doing to create resistance in your kids. It also introduces the idea of limits that matter and that need consistency and things you can hand over to the kids. This chapter is FULL of really useful strategies and present a model that both parents can work from (together or separated).
Chapter Six: Love, Limits and Consequences
Following Through
There are times when we need to follow through but do consequences work? What do we do? What don't we do? When? It's confusing! Get answers.
Chapter Seven: Act Your Age
When do they grow some moral values?
Many of the problems we experience with our children come simply from their immaturity. Let’s face it, children (including teens) are immature – and why shouldn’t they be, frustrating though it is for us? In this section, we shall consider the child’s immaturity in terms of understanding the world, using his intellectual capacity, and developing values and moral behaviour.
Sidestepping the Power Struggle
Take part one to try it out, or sign up for all seven chapters.
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Sidestepping Study Group
This is a private course for course participants.
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The Parent Child Study Group
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Mad Love Class Recordings
These are private video recordings of LIFE as a Couple
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FreeFree Videos and Articles
Read Dr. Allison Rees' articles from Island Parent Magazine. 25 years of writing covering all kinds of subjects.
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FreeAsk Dr. Alison Miller
Dr. Alison Miller is the original creator of LIFE Seminars. Her work as a child psychologist has contributed to 40 years of parent education. Read her answers to practical questions.
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$45.00The Parent Child Connection: Audio Book
The Parent Child Connection book read by Dr. Allison Rees. This covers the course material in-depth.
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$10.00The Parent Child Connection Published Book
This is A PDF of the published book.
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$45.00Sidestepping the Power Struggle: Audio Book
This is the complete book, Sidestepping the Power Struggle read by Dr. Allison Rees.
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$10.00Sidestepping the Power Struggle - Published Book
This is a PDF of the published book.
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$155.00Sidestepping the Power Struggle - Audio, Video and PDF
This course invites participants to go through each chapter with Allison guiding them with questions. A mix of video classes, audio handouts, PDF's of each chapter and extra course material.
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$25.00Sibling Rivalry
Children argue, sometimes because it is entertaining to do so, other times because they have a legitimate reason. Kids learn skills from us, their parents, but not usually during a conflict. What do we do? How can we avoid negative patterns?
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$155.00Sidestepping The Power Struggle (Entire Course - All Seven Chapters)
The Entire Sidestepping The Power Struggle Course. This is not the interactive course with Dr. Rees but a film of her teaching the course. - All Seven Chapters
What people have to say.....
“Dr. Allison Rees and her partner, Dr. Alison Miller - (Clinical Psychologist), have an advice column, a website and loads of speaking engagements, plus Rees also does a radio show. Thousands of people have taken their courses, and I was keen to see if one would live up to the hype..... Rees gives us lectures, chock full of funny, real-life examples, while the leaders acted out hokey skits to illustrate her message." Each week I went away with new perspectives and techniques. The bottom line: A multi-week course, run by a seasoned, educator and professional therapist quickly becomes personal." Seven weeks into the course, I made a herculean effort to "let go" of what I learned is a "kid issue," and gave my daughter choices. While expecting to learn ways to control my children's behaviour, I was surprised to find most of the material focused on changing my behaviour. Fortunately, Rees, a guru of parent education in Victoria, has perfected a method of parlaying this information in a humorous way. ”
Today's Parent: T.K. Demmings
“There are so many fantasies about being a parent, the greatest one being that we will naturally know what to do. When my friends and I have attended the LIFE Seminars we are always surprised by the amount we really learn about our kids, and I leave with tools that make me a better parent. This course blows the lid off of parenting; it gives us true insight into the way our kids think, and helps us to understand the dynamics of families, and challenges us to work through our weaknesses rather than ignore them.”
“Testimonials from a recent event put on by Child Care Resource & Referral “Excellent information, well presented…funny and open.” “Sometimes it feels no matter what one says or does is wrong! She gives one a new perspective. ” “Love her, I feel like she’s been in my house. Would love to hear more from her.” “I learned different words to use with kids. I want more, time flew by.””
Participants
“Comments from teachers and EAs, School District 63 “Allison Rees is a capacity in her field. I always learn so much from her sessions.” “Allison Rees was fantastic! I would love to hear more seminars by her. She was a great speaker, engaging, funny and super knowledgeable.” “I have heard about Allison from colleagues and she did not disappoint. She is engaging and interesting.” “Allison is a good and loving presenter. She is easy to hear and understand. If we had more time I would like to have small groups to practice techniques.” ”
Teachers and Ea's School District 63