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A Survival Guide for Dealing with Difficult Parents - 4 Hours

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4 Clock Hours Professional Development

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A Survival Guide for Dealing with Difficult Parents

🌟 Self-Paced Online Courses 🌟 Open Enrollment 🌟Complete Any Time of Day or Night 🌟 
🌟 Mobile Friendly 🌟 Meets Instructor-Led Requirements 🌟 

​4 Clock-Hours of Professional Development (Business and Leadership)

At first glance, handling a difficult parent may seem like a thankless job. Fortunately, you can develop skills to adapt to the challenges difficult parents pose and extend these skills to handling difficult people and situations throughout your daily life. By improving the focus of your thoughts and feelings, how you manage stress, and how well you listen to and empathize with others, you will be better able to meet the challenges other people pose in both your professional and personal life. Implementing the guidelines in this course is the first step in a process towards forever changing how you interact with others.
 
At the end of this workshop, participants should:

• Identify common causes of tension between parents and early childhood educators
• Recall techniques for establishing and maintaining relationships with parents
• Recall effective communication skills
• Recall practices that can help improve communication with parents
• Recall Transitional Analysis ego states and how they can affect communication
• Recall benefits of, and responsibilities for, establishing effective communication with parents
• Identify parental mind-sets and personality traits that hinder effective communication
• Identify methods and techniques for overcoming communication barriers

Learning Objectives:
Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. With that in mind, let’s review our goals for this course.

• After reading about cultivating mindfulness in education, participant will be able to recall this information through a multiple-choice quiz.
• After reading about ways to create a stress-reducing lifestyle, participant will be able to identify these methods for reducing stress through a multiple-choice quiz.
• After reading about relating with parents, participant will be able to identify and reflect on ways they have done so successfully through the peer discussion.
• After reading about ways to improve communication, participant will be able to recall these methods through a multiple-choice quiz.
• After reading about the types of Ego Modes, participant will be able to explain the differences between these modes through an open-ended question.
• After reading about methods for interacting successfully with difficult parents, participants will be able to describe how they would appropriately handle various scenarios through the open-ended questions.

Washington STARS credit: Professional Development and Leadership (4 hours)
CDA Unit 6: Maintaining a Commitment to Professionalism (4 hours)   
Oregon: Step 1

​Technical Requirements:

This training platform is user friendly, and it is expected that the majority of students will find that their computers and mobile devices operate without any complications. However, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• A laptop or PC are recommended for completing online courses
• Most students are able to use mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones to complete courses.
• Recommended internet browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera are all acceptable browsers
• Some courses have assignments which may require downloading and editing a document using an application on your computer or mobile device. Applications that work to open the Word document are: Microsoft Word, Pages, Text Editor, Google Docs, and WordPad 
• Make sure you’re using a current operating system (for example, Windows 10 or Apple OS)
• Outdated operating systems may cause technical difficulties
• Slow internet speed may impact loading time​

Internet Explorer will not work to complete this course. Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft, and you WILL have issues if you use it to complete online training. Please use a different browser other than Internet Explorer.
 
​We have provided optional links below where you can download alternate browsers. All browsers are free to download and use on your computer.

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• Download Microsoft Edge HERE ​

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Enrollment and Access to Training

1. You have access to online courses for 1 year from the date of payment.
2. For immediate access to courses at the time of payment, enroll at our sister site www.myececlass.com. 
3. When enrolling on our home page at www.cdastars.com, the information to access the online course will be sent to the email address provided during enrollment hours.
4.  New Enrollments Are Set-Up During the Following Times:​
     Monday - Friday        7  am – 8  pm (PT)
     Saturday & Sunday    8  am – 8  pm (PT)
     Holidays                    9  am – 8  pm (PT)
5. Registrations that are submitted at www.cdastars.com after enrollment hours will be processed the next morning. You will receive an email with information to access the course.
6. Check your email for instructions to start the training. Click on the link in the email to access the course.

Technical Requirements and Support

1. Internet access is required to complete our courses.
2. Some students may find that they have to update their internet browser, this is most often the case when trying to use Internet Explorer. We recommend Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome for the best results. Our student support staff is happy to assist students with troubleshooting should you encounter technical issues, and will provide common suggestions for solving problems that occur when normal browser maintenance or application updates need to occur.

Cancellations and Refunds

1. Cancellations and refunds requested within 72 hours after enrollment are available for courses/programs that have NOT been accessed. 
2. Refunds are not available after 72 hours from the date of payment.
3. Refunds are not available for courses/programs that have been accessed.
4. Once the student has logged in to the course, a refund is no longer available.
5. Refunds and cancellations WILL be charged a 20% cancellation fee.
6. After 72 hours from the time of purchase, the payment credit can be transferred to a different training or to a new student, if the training was not started by the original student, for up to 30 days after enrollment.
7. To try out a course before purchasing, click here for a *free course*

Course Curriculum and Certificates

• ​Course curriculum is developed by Successful Solutions Training in Child Development Instructors​
• This course is presented in English.
• Free preview of any course is available by registering for the course and clicking on the "Take a Look! Enroll Later" option
• Coursework is presented via a mobile friendly online training platform.
• There are no textbooks or materials to purchase, all course content is presented online. 
• Fully automated courses keep track of your progress and resume to right where you left off.​
• Progress through the courses is monitored by instructors and support staff. The courses include online instructor interaction and feedback via discussion boards and assignments.
• The student forum/discussion board allows learners and instructors to connect and collaborate about early learning topics presented in the course.  
• We include a wealth of optional resource links for you to explore and further your knowledge about each topic.
• Certificates are provided by email upon successful completion of courses. Trainers will review coursework and send students feedback, as needed, regarding coursework and meeting learning outcomes.