Parent Guide: The Basics
The IEP for Home Parent Success System is centered on 8 Parent Guides. You can start your journey on any page, but it pays to be logical and strategic. Choose the Parent Guide that inspires you the most. That will help you keep up your motivation. Then, choose the Parent Guide that’s the most realistic. Are the two the same?
The IEP for Home Parent Guides are listed in a strategic order. You will have more success more quickly, and feel more confident sooner, if you follow the order of the IEP for Home.
Choose to be successful. An early success might make you feel more motivated to continue, even if the success seems small to you.
Speak with your parenting partner, clinician, or friend when you choose your goals and objectives. Slow and steady usually pays off in the long run!
Here’s how to be logical and strategic:
Spend quality time with your loved ones and seek joy in their companionship.
First, build a positive relationship. Make sure your child has some positive moments with you every day. There’s work ahead. You and your child need to know that you’re good together before you start the hard work of teaching, and before your child will accept the hard task of learning.
A positive relationship makes teaching and learning possible. The Parent Guide on Positive Relationships will get you going.
Make time for your mental health
Second, create Wellness: Teach your child to sleep well, eat well, and control their screen time. The Parent Guides for Sleeping and Eating will help you teach your child these important skills.
Special note: Be sure to build a positive relationship with yourself. Create wellness for yourself before you build wellness for your child. Sometimes, parent wellness is the most logical first step. If you learn about wellness first, you’ll be a much better wellness teacher for your child!
Third, create a schedule. Make sure your child has a privilege to look forward to every day. Once your child knows when privileges will occur, you can put jobs and rules into the schedule. The Content pages on Schedules and Rules will get you going.
Sound simple? It is.
Sound easy? Not always.