The Stop and Think Parenting Book with DVD

The Stop and Think Parenting Book: A Guide to Children's Good Behavior complements the social skills program utilized in the Core Knowledge preschool classrooms to teach the social skills identified in the Preschool Sequence.

This parenting program, based on the nationally-acclaimed and evidence-based Stop & Think Social Skills Program, guides parents in how to teach their children, preschool through elementary school age, the interpersonal, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills that will help them succeed in all settings. Accompanied by a 75 minute demonstration DVD, the Stop and Think Parenting Book helps to teach children over 20 important behavioral skills — Listening, Following Directions, How to Interrupt, Accepting Consequences and Apologizing, Dealing with Teasing, How to Handle Peer Pressure — and how to use them in real life.

Complete with a sample teaching Calendar, Social Skill Cue Cards, easy to follow Parenting Points, and other important resources, this program has been successfully used in homes across the country. It also has been used by counselors, social workers, and psychologists as they lead parenting classes in school.

About the author

Howard M. Knoff, Ph.D. is a national consultant, author, and lecturer in the areas of school reform and improvement; school discipline, behavior management, and school safety; and effective schools and schooling. He was a university professor for over 20 years, first at the State University of New York at Albany, and then for almost 18 years at the University of South Florida in Tampa where he was director of the School Psychology Program for 12 years. While at USF, Dr. Knoff was the co-director of the Institute for School Reform, Integrated Services, and Child Mental Health and Educational Policy. He is now the Director of Project ACHIEVE, a nationally known school reform project that has been designated an evidence-based exemplary prevention program by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U. S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

**Please note that The Stop and Think Parenting Book with DVD ships under separate cover directly from Project ACHIEVE, via USPS.**

Excerpt from the Preface

. . . the lessons in this book will guide you, step by step, in:

• Teaching important social skills to your children using simple, effective age-appropriate procedures that have been successfully implemented in thousands of homes and school districts across the country.
• Using a consistent "script" as you teach your children each skill and practice them together during the day.
• Correctly demonstrating the social skills that you are teaching using "real-life" situations that occur at home and practicing the skills with your children until they perform them with less and less prompting over time.
• Using the teaching steps and social skills scripts consistently, and giving your children incentives to make good choices and consequences when they make bad choices.
• Helping your children use the skills in different places, with different people, and at different times of the day.

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