Parent Effectiveness Training
A Skills Course for Parents
Do you want to be a better parent to your children?
Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is a course designed to teach you the philosophy and communication skills needed to improve and enhance the quality of your relationships with your children.
In P.E.T., you will learn to:

• Help your children solve their own problems
• Confront your children’s unacceptable behavior
• Resolve conflicts between you and your children
• Listen so your child will feel understood
• Communicate clearly so your children will understand you
• Establish family rules everyone in your family will follow
• Resolve conflicts so nobody loses
• Parent with a philosophy that is neither permissive nor authoritarian
• Become the person your children confide in when they encounter worries or difficulties

Parent Effectiveness Training also explores these important parent/child relationship skills:

• Understanding relationships with children
• Learning to help your child
• Communicating to meet your needs
• Resolving conflicts
• Preventing problems
• Handling values collisions

Through OLPH more than 3,500 individuals have benefited from the skills they have learned in these classes.