Tantrums, outbursts, and negotiations: Parenting kids with challenging behaviour
Bryn and co-host Char come together with Jeremy Hardern, a parent of two small children and leadership team coach, and Dr. Janet Mah, registered psychologist, to speak about parenting kids with challenging behavour.
Parenting Challenging Behaviours in Children: Webinar
Dr. Janet Mah shares parenting strategies and resources to help you manage your child's behavioural challenges.
The Defiant Child
Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" 5- to 12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable--and leads to lasting behaviour change. Realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action
The explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children
Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding "explosive children" who are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and require a different approach to parenting.
Parenting Information Handouts
These handouts have been written for parents on a variety of topics, divided into Early Childhood, School-aged Children, and Parental Involvement in Education.
Parents Together
This organization provides family programs and parent groups throughout BC.
Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers
This website will help you handle some common parenting challenges, so you can be a more confident parent and enjoy helping your child grow.
Confident Parents: Thriving Kids
This program helps BC parents and caregivers support their children aged 3-12 to manage either anxiety or behaviour challenges, through phone-based coaching. The program includes the We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears program, a resource to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC whose children are struggling with the experience of Big Worries/Fears.
Articles and Handouts for Parents
This website contains helpful articles and downloadable handouts written especially for parents, including articles on setting limits, positive discipline strategies, teaching self-regulation, and more.
Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)
This comic book is aimed at elementary school children to teach them how they can use strategies to self-regulate some of their own wayward, not quite so flexible thoughts and behaviours.
Beyond Behaviors
Beyond Behaviors describes behaviors as important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety. It offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.
Connect Parent Group
Connect is an evidence-based 10-week manualized group program for parents and alternate caregivers of pre teens and teens who struggle with significant behaviour problems.