Creating the Growth-Climate

Becoming the Best Parents You Can Be
Hosts: Kenneth H. Patey, Sharon Patey

FEW OF US RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS THAT DESTROYS SELF-CONFIDENCE.  A national research study gave us the following alarming statistic:  “Creativity in Children is Largely Destroyed by the Second Grade.” There is no inference here that teachers did it!  Sadly so, all of us can contribute to this loss unwittingly.  You will learn how children acquire beliefs and how those beliefs impact every aspect of their lives: their perceptions, their communication, their memory recall, and their behavior.  You will see what causes children to divert their creative energies to survive rather than have it available for personal growth.  You will learn how to “crack the door” into the hearts of your children and help them turn that creativity back on.  You will learn to identify the very tactics which cause your children to not trust and how to replace those tactics with principle.  You will come to see why self-confidence is a by-product, not something you merely dispense like a medical prescription. 

It is also designed to help parents learn how to establish close, deep, trusting, and LASTING CONNECTIONS with their children.  Instead of facing strained relationships where kids begin to rely more on the information they receive from their peers, children can be comfortable in talking with their parents.  Not only will you find them sharing information about day-to-day situations, but they can also be at ease in discussing issues that trouble them personally, issues that most kids wouldn’t even dream of sharing with a parent!