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Sandusky County Department of Job and Family Services has a parenting class designed to give parents the necessary skills and support to parent effectively. The program, taught by Linda Ackerman, Training Officer and Parenting Instructor, focuses on teaching parents different options in overcoming the many negative behaviors encountered everyday. The program focuses on; understanding your parenting style, courage and self-Esteem, understanding why your child does what they do, developing responsibility, winning cooperation, discipline, and becoming an Active Parent while developing mutual respect in your household. If you feel tired, grouchy, and unable to deal with your kids at the end of the day, you are in need of this parenting class. For more information please contact Linda Ackerman at (419) 334-8708.

Active Parenting Now is an updated version of the award-winning Active Parenting Today program. Designed for parents of children ages 5 to 12, Active Parenting Now helps parents learn to raise responsible, cooperative children who are prepared to meet the challenges of the teen years. Written by Active Parenting Publishers founder and president Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D., this comprehensive new parenting program retains everything that was great about Active Parenting Today and adds the content needed for working with today's families. This program provides parents with skills that will help them develop cooperation, responsibility and self-esteem in their children. Parents also learn positive, non-violent discipline techniques so they can avoid power struggles.

The Paulding County Department of Job and Family Services has partnered with the OSU Extension office of Paulding County to provide educational classes that will teach new skills to parents in the areas of discipline, communication, and developing character.

The Active Parenting: 1 - 4 year olds class is a combination of two well-researched programs: 1,2,3,4 Parents! and Active Parenting Today. 1, 2, 3, 4 Parents! teaches stages of development and more. Created by Active Parenting Publishers and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1, 2, 3, 4 Parents! is a multicultural video and discussion program for parents of children in the 1- to 4-year-old age group. Written by Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D., Betsy Gard, Ph.D., and Marilyn Montgomery, Ph.D., this program addresses basic parenting skills and is perfect for the new parent. Millions of parents have achieved success with Active Parenting. Active Parenting Today is the internationally-acclaimed video and discussion program by parenting expert Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D. Through this program you will learn skills that will help you develop cooperation, responsibility and self-esteem in your children. You'll also learn positive discipline techniques so you can avoid those all-too-familiar power struggles.