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 CHILDREN DON’T COME WITH INSTRUCTIONS

People are trained to be bankers, teachers, mechanics, geologists, carpenters, pianists, accountants, etc.  Yet, although being a parent may be the most important and at times the most difficult job, very few people have the skills to get children to cooperate without nagging, yelling, bribing or punishing.

Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) has answered this need.  Offered throughout the United States since 1976, more than four million parents and educators have participated in STEP training.

Click the links below to learn more:

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Take STEPs to Handle Misbehaviors: Raising independent, responsible, happy children.  Article by Gloria Smith.

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Getting Kids to Cooperate:  A discipline fairy tale by Aviva Schwab  (interactive exercise at the end)

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The Goals of STEP

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The People Behind STEP

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Week by Week outline of Aviva's STEP course

Aviva's uncles, Irvin and Jack (students second from right in top two rows), at Sunday School, Whiting, Indiana, early 1940s.