"Parents are blamed, but not trained." Let's fix that together. 8-week Parent Effectiveness Training courses offered online for parents and anyone who works with children and families.
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"He felt better. I felt better, and I put into my relationship bank right away. That concept gave me the idea that I can fix this – I don't have to self-criticize. I can change what just happened."
One of the things that first drew me to P.E.T. is that it allows for parents to be human – that is, inconsistent in their feelings and levels of acceptance for different kinds of behavior they experience from their children and from others.
P.E.T. and RIE have a common philosophy that the parent-child relationship is a two-way street that involves mutual respect and the needs of both the parent and child being met.
It's how the conflicts are resolved that matters most. Thomas Gordon, who developed P.E.T., describes the types of conflict resolution that are available to parents.
It's okay for parents to have strong feelings and to use those feelings to create more authentic relationships with their children. In P.E.T., we learn and practice ways to communicate those feelings that still leave the child's self-esteem intact and that work to create desired shifts in behavior.
