Do you ever feel frustrated with your child? Find yourself shouting often and imposing punishments or rewards in reaction to challenging behavior? Do you wish you had a more effective parenting approach that also helps to build a better relationship between you and your child?
The Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving parenting model is a strength-based, neurologically-grounded approach created by Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry that provides parents with concrete tools to better understand and parent their children (ages 3+) and adolescents in the face of ordinary, day-to-day challenges – e.g., getting to school, screen time, homework, bedtime – to more serious challenges. It’s based on the understanding that many kids lack the skill, not the will, to behave well – specifically skills related to problem solving, and frustration tolerance. Unlike traditional models of discipline, the CPS approach avoids the use of power, control and motivational procedures and focuses instead on building helping relationships and thinking skills.
We want the best for our children and often look externally – to tutoring, music, sports, art, volunteering – to help them become well-rounded, confident, successful and kind. But what shapes children the most is their relationship with us – their parent. A trusting, supportive, loving relationship between a child and his or her parent(s) is one of the most fundamental building blocks for a child's social and emotional health. We owe it to our kids – and to ourselves – to learn how to shift away from impatient, reactive, authoritarian parenting to calm, pro-active, compassionate and skill-building parenting. For most of us, this is not natural or intuitive. We're overwhelmed and are doing the best we can. We have good intentions, but we never learned a comprehensive, effective parenting approach. Instead we often rely on instinct, how we were parented, and a hodgepodge of advice from parenting books and articles.
The Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving approach provides parents with a compassionate - and neurologically grounded - overarching parenting philosophy and concrete tools for a practical and powerful approach to parenting your unique child. Parents who participate in the CPS workshop learn to:
To learn more about Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving approach, please click here. To read other parents' views on the benefits of the CPS workshop, please click here. To read common questions and answers, please click here.
The Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving parenting model is a strength-based, neurologically-grounded approach created by Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry that provides parents with concrete tools to better understand and parent their children (ages 3+) and adolescents in the face of ordinary, day-to-day challenges – e.g., getting to school, screen time, homework, bedtime – to more serious challenges. It’s based on the understanding that many kids lack the skill, not the will, to behave well – specifically skills related to problem solving, and frustration tolerance. Unlike traditional models of discipline, the CPS approach avoids the use of power, control and motivational procedures and focuses instead on building helping relationships and thinking skills.
We want the best for our children and often look externally – to tutoring, music, sports, art, volunteering – to help them become well-rounded, confident, successful and kind. But what shapes children the most is their relationship with us – their parent. A trusting, supportive, loving relationship between a child and his or her parent(s) is one of the most fundamental building blocks for a child's social and emotional health. We owe it to our kids – and to ourselves – to learn how to shift away from impatient, reactive, authoritarian parenting to calm, pro-active, compassionate and skill-building parenting. For most of us, this is not natural or intuitive. We're overwhelmed and are doing the best we can. We have good intentions, but we never learned a comprehensive, effective parenting approach. Instead we often rely on instinct, how we were parented, and a hodgepodge of advice from parenting books and articles.
The Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving approach provides parents with a compassionate - and neurologically grounded - overarching parenting philosophy and concrete tools for a practical and powerful approach to parenting your unique child. Parents who participate in the CPS workshop learn to:
- Shift their thinking and approach to foster a positive relationship with their child
- Reduce challenging behavior
- Foster proactive rather than reactive interventions
- Teach skills related to self-regulation, communication and problem-solving
To learn more about Think:Kids Collaborative Problem Solving approach, please click here. To read other parents' views on the benefits of the CPS workshop, please click here. To read common questions and answers, please click here.