Curriculum
Character Education at Odyssey Charter School
This parenting seminar, taught one night a week for 5-6 weeks, offers a fresh and unique approach to parenting that is solidly connected to research regarding why some children are more successful than others. It focuses first and foremost on promoting the successful development of children.
The Real Power of Parenthood program explains the five parts of the family environment and shows parents how to organize and adapt them to promote their children’s growth and development. It teaches how to demonstrate clear and consistent parental leadership in a positive and proactive way. It also emphasizes that parents should be clear about what they want for their children and be unified in how to promote their children’s development.
Parent will learn the three fundamental parts of parenting and how to apply them in their family:
- Understanding child development
- Adapting the family environment
- Applying clear and consistent leadership
Parents will learn the 6 leadership principles:
- Prepare more than you punish
- Communicate more than you control
- Encourage more than you criticize
- Involve and individualize
- Love more than you isolate
- Love enough to limit