Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children by Dr. Thomas Gordon shocks the reader into an entirely different mindset.  There are two main reasons why people fail to implement the principles of Parent Effectiveness Training. Either they feel that they cannot afford to “surrender” their position of power in the parent-child relationship […]

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Dr. Thomas Gordon rocked the parenting world with one idea: if parents mastered effective communication, they would enjoy raising effective communicators.  He first published Parent Effectiveness Training in 1970.  Within five years, it was a worldwide movement. Even though Dr. Gordon died in 2002, many effectiveness training instructors like me continue to teach parents the […]

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Just a reminder that the rest of the 2010 live Austin meetings are on the third Tuesday of the Month beginning in August.  Employ the techniques described in Dr. Thomas Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training August 17, 2010.  It is a very different way of communicating and requires practice to implement.

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