CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Preparation for Parenting provides a prescription for responsible parenting. The infant management plan offered by the Ezzos, successfully and naturally helps infants synchronize their feeding, waketime and nighttime sleep cycles. This class is 6 weeks and requires husband and wife attendance.
This series teaches the practical side of introducing solid foods, managing mealtimes, nap transitions, traveling with your infant, setting reasonable limits while encouraging healthy exploration and much more. You will learn how to teach your child to use sign language for basic needs, a tool proven to help stimulates cognitive growth and advance communication. Apply the principles and your friends and relatives will be amazed at the alertness, contentedness and happy disposition of your toddler. This class is 6 weeks and requires husband and wife attendance.
Growing Kids God's Way 5.0 series is a comprehensive values-based parenting curriculum. In the title the authors, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo, place their emphasis on God's Way meaning the way of the Lord. We serve an ethical God. Moral rightness flows from His being. His moral law is a reflection of His holy character (Psalm 19:7). More than that, He has shown man what is good and what is required of him (Micah 6:8). Growing Kids God's Way can help any parent reach the heart of children with virtues and values that flow from the character of God and do it without stressing the child or the parents. This class is 18 weeks and requires husband and wife attendance.
The middle years, eight to twelve years of age, are perhaps the most significant attitude-forming period in the life of a child. It is during this time that the roots of moral character are established. From the foundation that is formed, healthy or not-so-healthy family relationships will be built. These are the years when patterns of behavior are firmly established patterns that will impact your parent-child relationship for decades to come. Rightly meeting the small challenges of the middle years significantly reduces the likelihood of big challenges in the teen years. In other words, the groundwork you lay during your child's middle years will forever impact your relationship even long after he or she is grown. This class is 8 weeks and requires husband and wife attendance.
Why do teens rebel? Is it due to hormones, a primal desire to stake out their own domain, or is it simply a natural and predictable process of growth ? Reaching the Heart of Your Teen looks at the many factors that make living with a teenager either a blessing or a curse. It exposes the notions of secular myths and brings to light the proven how-to applications of building and maintaining healthy relationships with your teens. Whether you worry about your teen and dating or your teen and drugs, the principles of Reaching the Heart of Your Teen are appropriate and applicable for both extremes and everyone in between. This class is 8 weeks. It requires attendance by husband, wife and the
teenager(s).
REFLECTIONS OF MORAL INNOCENSE is a study in the basics of human sexuality, especially the developing sexuality of our children. The Ezzos believe it is right to let children be children as long as they can, and believe it is wrong to rush children into adulthood through the medium of premature sexual knowledge. There is no faster way to rob a child of the innocence of childhood than inappropriate sex education. Children only get one childhood. What are you doing to protect it?
So we ask: What does God say about human sexuality and the sexual innocence of children? What does He say about purity and the role of parents in forming right attitudes in their children's minds and hearts about their own sexuality? This series discusses the practical how-to's of sex education and much more. By the end of this series you should have the confidence of knowing how, what, and when to communicate biological truth to your children with biblical values attached without fearing that you are giving your children too much or too little information. This class is 8 weeks and requires husband and wife attend.
It's called follow-through, completion, "sticktoitivenss," perseverance, finishing the task at hand and taking full ownership. Ultimately, this is how we want our children to be characterized. When a task is placed in front of them, we want them to complete it without you resorting to prompting, bribing, threatening, or a continual barrage of reminders? Unfortunately, sometimes parents are their own worst enemy when it comes to molding these virtues into their children. The goal of this series is to teach you how to pass to your child a sense of behavioral ownership and how to implant a self-generated sense of personal responsibility. You want your child to be characterized by diligence in following through with his own actions, mistakes, messes and misdeeds. But how do you get there? How do you raise a responsible child? In a practical and humorous way, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo unlock the secrets of raising responsible children.