PEP Talk

Quarterly Newsletter for
Parenting Education Practitioners

Issues

Back issues of PEP Talk are available. Here is a list of issues with their main contents.

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Issue	Lead Article	Presentation Plan	Tips From the Field
Fall 2011 Issue #54	Coping with Anger, Stress and Poor Morale	Building Self-Esteem in Young Children	Improving Workplace Relationships with Emotional Literacy and Self-Assessment
Summer 2011 Issue #53	Conflict between Parents and Adult Children	Training Your Child’s Brain	Assessments and Activities That Help Us Work Together to Solve Problems and Understanding and Managing Angry People: Our Colleagues, Our Clients and Ourselves
Spring 2011 Issue #52	When Families Need to Shut off Screens	Bedtime Battles and Nightmares	How to Protect Yourself from Manipulative Clients, Colleagues and Bosses
Winter 2011 Issue #51	Parenting after the Death of a Child	Teaching Kids about Their Actions	Networking for You Who Absolutely, Positively Hate Networking Even When It’s Important
Fall 2010 Issue #50	Overcoming the Challenges of Teaching Adults	How to Teach Kids to Avoid Molesters	Using Tupperware-style Home ‘Parties’ and Demonstrations to Promote Your Programs
Summer 2010 Issue #49	Staying Effective While Multi-Tasking	What to Teach Kids about Gossip	What Parent Educators and Counselors Can Learn from Leading Therapists
Spring 2010 Issue #48	Supporting Families of Deployed Military	Understanding Kids’ Learning Problems	How to Use Meetings to Create a Network with Real People—without Going Online
Winter 2010 Issue #47	Read for Emotional and Intellectual Development	Recognizing and Preventing Bullying	How Parent Educators Emphasize the Importance of Developmental Stages
Fall 2009 Issue #46	When One Child Overachieves—and Others Don’t	Survival Strategies for the Witching Hour	Practical Ideas for Preventing and Overcoming Writer’s Block
Summer 2009 Issue #45	Addressing Gender-Specific Learning Needs	Traveling with Children	Practical Tips for Handling Attention-Hungry Parents and Colleagues
Spring 2009 Issue #44	How Pop Culture Sexualizes Young Children	Teaching Kids “Executive” Skills	What Parent and School Educators Need to Know about Working with Military Families
Winter 2009 Issue #43	What Single Parents By Choice Need to Know	Children in Meth-Addicted Families	Applying the 4 P’s of Marketing to Parent Education and Early Childhood Education
Fall 2008 Issue #42	What’s Normal and What Signals Sex Abuse?	Helping Kids Cope with Separation	1,001 Ways to Use the Internet to Save Money and Make Yourself More Effective
Summer 2008 Issue #41	Helping Parents Understand Autism	Developing Realistic Expectations	13 Tips to Make You a Better Speaker at Conferences and in Class
Spring 2008 Issue #40	Ending a Cycle of Single Parenting in Poverty	Deployment Issues for Military Families	How to Overcome Procrastination in Yourself, Your Staff and Your Volunteers
Winter 2008 Issue #39	How Our Brains Work Affects How We Parent	Understanding Thinking Styles	Professionals offer how-to advice for parents who must advocate for their children
Fall 2007 Issue #38	Why Are Relationships So Important to Babies’ Development?	The Importance of Rituals and Traditions	How to find free and low-cost resources for your parenting and preschool programs
Summer 2007 Issue #37	How Does Screen Time Impact Family Life?	Teaching Children Social Skills	How to avoid class disruptions—and handle those that do occur
Spring 2007 Issue #36	How Do You Get Adolescents to Change?	Living with the Active Alert Child	How to develop effective outreach programs to ethnic minorities in your community
Winter 2007 Issue #35	Attracting Fathers to Parent Education	When Young Children Lie	How parent educators can accommodate those with physical disabilities
Fall 2006 Issue #34	Universal Preschool: Yes or No?	Help Kids Manage Intense Emotions	Suffering from a budget crunch? Parent educators share strategies for maintaining quality
Summer 2006 Issue #33	Handling Cases of Suspected Child Abuse	Using Music to Prepare for Reading	When middle school girls get catty, how do you cure—or curb—the conflict?
Spring 2006 Issue #32	How to Handle Separation Anxiety	Modeling Stress Management	How to use suggestion circles in parenting education classes and groups
Winter 2006 Issue #31	Effectively Reaching Poor Young Mothers	Building a Wall or Opening the Door?	How teachers can prepare for effective communications with parents
Fall 2005 Issue #30	Training and Supporting the Foster Parent	Self-esteem for Middle Schoolers	How you and your client families can reduce stress and cure the “blues”
Summer 2005 Issue #29	How Schools Can Support the Teenage Parent	Helping Siblings Get Along	Handling late arrivals, missing mikes and other logistic issues
Spring 2005 Issue #28	When Siblings Continue to be Rivals	Self-Calming Strategies for Kids	Parent educators provide practical advice to new professionals
Winter 2005 Issue #27	The Challenges Parent Educators Confront	Making Parents Partners in Their Children’s Education	Parent educators offer variety of advice for those new to profession
Fall 2004 Issue #26	Helping Children Acknowledge Loss and Grief	The Importance of Enough	How can parent educators tactfully handle comparisons to predecessors?
Summer 2004 Issue #25	Capacity Building as a Parenting Education Tool	Let Children Learn Through Play	Streamline your operations and marketing with ideas adapted from business
Spring 2004 Issue #24	Serving Siblings of Special-Needs Children	Words to Help Children Succeed	How can I help my kids “fire” friends?
Winter 2004 Issue #23	Helping Parents Recognize solutions to Their Child Guidance Issues	Loving and Guiding Adolescents	Dealing with parents who seem bossy or overprotective
Fall 2003 Issue #22	Is This Child and “Active Alert” or ADHD?	Understanding Children’s Grief	How parent educators are dealing with funding cuts at a time of increased need for services
Summer 2003 Issue #21	Overcoming Challenges to Attracting and Retaining Participants in Parent Education	Teaching Kids about Feelings	Helping parents and children deal with terrorism and war
Spring 2003 Issue #20	More Cost-effective Promotional Tools for Parent Education Programs	Teaching Kids Life Skills	When parents want to spank: how educators can address the issue tactfully
Winter 2003 Issue #19	Creative, Cost-effective Promotion for Parent Education Programs	Using Your Values to Set Family Guidelines	“Plan ahead,” “Piggyback on other events” and “Persist,” advise parent educators
Fall 2002 Issue #18	A Friend for the Journey: Parent Mentor Programs Help New Parents Succeed	Teaching Kids to Fit In	Serving the at-risk parent with flexibility and personalized programs
Summer 2002 Issue #17	Learn How and When to Separate and Reattach	Encouraging Responsibility	How Can You Improve Parent Participation in Classes and Events?
Spring 2002 Issue #16	How Can Parent Educators Address Diversity	Preparing Children for a Diverse Culture	Selecting Multicultural Books that Offer Enduring Stories
Winter 2002 Issue #15	What Do Parents Need to Know to Fulfill Their Roles as Parents?	Supporting the Grieving Child	How to Find and use Volunteers in Parent Education Programs
Fall 2001 Issue #14	How Do Parents come to Do What They Do?	Talking to Kids about Violence	Providing—and Funding—Support after a Parenting Class Ends
Summer 2001 Issue #13	Grandparents Who Are Parenting Again	Bullying: No More Victims	How to Select Books for Young Children on Sensitive Topics
Spring 2001 Issue #12	A Holistic Approach to Parenting Education	Taking “No” For an Answer	Introducing Sensitive and Intimidating Topics to Parent Groups
Winter 2001 Issue #11	Parents Give So Much: Are They Over-indulging?	Simple Play: Bringing Back Innocence & Imagination	Encouraging parents to reconsider
Fall 2000 Issue #10	A Look at Emotional Coaching	Self-Quieting: An Alternative to Time-Out	Working with a diverse parent group
Summer 2000 Issue #9	Innovative Ways to Reach the Unsure Parent	Using Logical Consequences	Engaging Resistant Parents
Spring 2000 Issue #8	Experiential learning	Helping Kids Understand Feelings	Safety and Role-Playing
Winter 2000 Issue #7	Communication between men & women	Using Values to Guide Parenting Decisions	Responding to wrong advice
Fall 1999 Issue #6	Ethics in Parent Education	Making Requests	Referring a parent for counseling
Summer 1999 Issue #5	Lesbian Parenting	Stopping the Cycle of Stress	Listening to what Parents want . . .
Spring 1999 Issue #4	Making Sense of Child-Rearing Advice	Sexual Abuse Prevention	A class full of moms with one dad
Fall 1998 Issue #3	Coordinating Title & Mission	Time-In: When Time-Out Doesn’t Work	Bringing the group back together
Summer 1998 Issue #2	Helping Parents Manage Gender Tensions	Power Struggles	Handling a Difficult Group Member
Winter 1998 Issue #1	Parenting Education	Nature or Nurture?	None in this issue