Active Parenting
For Parents
OSU Extension offers parents an array of classes to help you be the best parent you can be and help ensure your children have opportunities to grow to their fullest potential. Our OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences educators offer three Active Parenting segments to help meet your current needs.
First Five Years: Birth to Age 5
This segment of the Active Parenting program contains a video and discussion program
of solutions to challenges faced by many parents of infants and young children. Included
in the program:
- Ages and stages of development
- Understanding what your baby’s cry means
- Building a positive bond with your child
- Using mindfulness to focus and calm yourself and your child
- Positive discipline
- Method of choice
- Preparing your child for school success
View video from session 2 on preventing problems with your children:
Active Parenting – 4th Edition: Ages 5 to 12
The second segment of the Active Parenting program is a flexible three-, four- or
six-session class with video-embedded slides demonstrating solutions to today’s parenting
challenges. Included in the class:
- Concrete skills to maintain and build open communication with children
- How the “method of choice” can prevent power struggles
- How different styles of parenting affect how your child reacts
- Effective, nonviolent discipline skills
- Brain development in children and how it affects parenting decisions
- How to teach positive values to children
- How be more confident in your role as a parent
- How to increase your children's academic success
View what Active Parenting 4th Edition has done for other parents:
Active Parenting of Teens
The third part of the Active Parenting program focuses on the particular challenges
parents face when their children are going through the teen years. Included in the
program:
- Skills to help parents keep communication with teens open even in the midst of conflict
- Effective methods for preventing power struggles
- Modifying your parenting style to change how teens react
- Discipline and problem-solving with kids as they grow older
- Understanding the five goals of teen behavior; how to address teens’ need for challenge
- Roles parents can play in the prevention of alcohol abuse and other drug use
- How to teach positive values to teens
- How to be more confident in parenting your teen
View Raising Oklahoma discussions of Active Parenting of Teens:
For a parenting class near you visit the OSU calendar or contact an educator in your county.
Raising Oklahoma Videos
2019 Raising Oklahoma Videos
- January: Helping Children be Money Wise at All Ages – January 28, 2019 - [All ages]
- February: Tech Awareness with Teens - Part 1 – February 25, 2019 - [Teens]
- March: Tech Awareness with Teens - Part 2 – March 11, 2019 - [Teens]
- April: Safe Sleep for Babies - April 22, 2019 - [Infancy and Early Childhood]
- May: Screen Time for the Kids - May 20, 2019 - [All ages]
- June: Temper Tantrums – June 17, 2019 - [Infancy and Early Childhood]
- July: Family Mealtime - July 15, 2019 - [All ages]
- August: Helping Kids Make Friends - August 12, 2019 - [All ages]
The Science Behind Parenting
Our parenting programs are based on high-quality research and best practices that are proven to work.