Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)

Whether you’re the parent of a toddler or a teenager, you know that parenting can be challenging – even overwhelming at times. Unfortunately, children don’t come with an instruction manual and being a parent doesn’t always mean that you automatically or instinctively know what to do.
Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) offers proven communication skills that really work. When Parents use these skills they are amazed with the dramatic improvement both in their families and in all their relationships.
You, too, can learn these communication and conflict resolution skills through Dr. Gordon’s P.E.T. program, taught by a certified P.E.T. Instructor.

You Will Learn How To:

• Talk to your children so that they will listen to you.
• Listen to your children so they feel genuinely understood.
• Say no and not fell guilty doing it.
• Set up rules, that everyone follows.
• Resolve conflicts and problems in your family so that no one loses and problems stay solved.
• Effectively express your needs, wishes and feelings.
• Recognize conflict patterns and know which skills to use to solve them

How You and Your Family Will Benefit:

• Your children will feel free to discuss their problems and concerns with you instead of withdrawing.
• They will learn self-discipline, self-control and an inner sense of personal responsibility.
• You will learn how to work with each other instead of against each other.
• You’ll experience fewer angry outbursts, while you have learned more problem solving skills.
• Everyone can participate in rule setting so all will feel motivated to comply with the rules.
• Fewer power struggles, which means: less tension, less resentment, more fun, more peace and more love.

How the Program Works

Only instructors certified by Gordon Training International teach the P.E.T workshop. This 30 hour intensive and proven program is set up in ten 3-hour sessions. The P.E.T. class consists of brief lectures, demonstrations, hands-on practice, workbook exercises, small group discussion and at-home application.

Each class participant will receive a set of P.E.T. materials, which includes: a P.E.T. book, a P.E.T. Workbook, a copy of Dr. Gordon’s Credo and a Participant Certificate after completion of the class.