Parents Deserve to Be Equipped

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Tapping Our Parental Power

Tapping Our Parental Power (TOPP) is a parent education and empowerment curriculum that equips parents to provide home environments that support their children's academic and life success while respecting the unique needs of every household.

TOPP workshops are best facilitated in groups.

  • Create / Reconnect with personal education philosophy to guide teaching practices.

  • Build meaningful relationships with students and families.

  • Establish classroom structures that promote engagement and ownership.

    Enhance conflict resolution skills to manage classroom dynamics.

  • Apply consistent strategies for an effective, enjoyable learning environment.

  • Foster a positive classroom culture that drives student growth.

  • Gain confidence in managing urban classrooms effectively.

The foundational 24-hour workshop

Overview

Parents engage deeply with our flagship curriculum through interactive exercises and discussions guided by “Tapping Our Parental Power; The Manual for Creating Academic and Life Success for Our Children.” Graduates of this course emerge as Empowered Parents who:

  • Take active responsibility for the psychological, emotional, and physical impact of their parenting choices.

  • Commit to fostering their children's positive growth and development.

  • Consciously instill a system of positive values and beliefs.

  • Set and consistently apply fair rules, boundaries, and consequences.

  • Adapt their parenting strategies to best support their children's journey to becoming empowered adults.

Core Content

  1. Parents’ Main Responsibility to Children

  2. The U&I-RISE Relationship and Productivity Model for enhancing interpersonal interactions

  3. Healthy School-Home Connection

  4. Historical Contexts Impacting Parental Effectiveness

  5. Defining Boundaries Between Adults and Children

  6. Essential Parenting Strategies

  7. Life and Relationship Truths

  8. Problem Analysis Techniques

  9. Conflict Resolution Education

  10. Sex Education and Mate Selection

Other Topp Workshop Topics

Whoever Thought of Time-Out Needs a Butt-Whipping

Course Description: Parents explore the sticky subject of spanking in this dynamic, fun, and funny workshop. Parents uncover the why, when, and even how of spanking and its place in a broader discipline plan. This will not be a debate about whether to spank.

Objective: To strengthen the parent-child relationship by helping parents who choose to spank to do so in as healthy and thoughtful a manner as possible.

Moving the Unmotivated Child to Action

Course Description: Parents will explore concerns and fears about children’s lack of motivation and leave equipped with easily implementable strategies to gain cooperation in the face of a lack of motivation.

Objective:
To strengthen the parent-child relationship by equipping parents with effective, family-building means to support their children through scary, intimidating, and/or pouty times.

Identifying and Breaking the Destructive Single Mother’s Cycle

Course Description:
Single mothers will identify, explore and smash this crippling cycle that, when undetected, passes from generation to generation.

Objective:
To strengthen the parent-child relationship by helping single mothers gain greater self-awareness, peace, and personal power in any situation and assist their children in gaining the same

Succeed/Fail: How We Teach Our Children to Do Both

Course Description:
Participants will learn at least five ways parents unknowingly guide their children to fail in school while, at the same time, uncovering how to habituate them for success.

Objective:
To equip parents with specific methods that help them prepare their children to do well academically and behaviorally in school

Family, Unplugged

Course Description:
"Family, Unplugged" is a workshop designed to help families reduce technology use and strengthen bonds through interactive activities and discussions.

Objective:
To equip participants with practical strategies to foster quality family time, enhance communication, and create a balanced approach to technology use within the home.

Puberty. Period.

Course Description:
Participants will learn at least five ways parents unknowingly guide their children to fail in school while, at the same time, uncovering how to habituate them for success.

Objective:
To equip parents with specific methods that help them prepare their children to do well academically and behaviorally in school

Tapping Our Parental Power; Then & Now

Chalon & Anita

Minware (Chalon), 8 years later

TOPP; Then & Now

Ethan M. 2012

Ethan, 5 years later

More Parent Testimonials

Crystal & Larry

Beverly M

"refreshed...encouraged"

Parent Focus Group

Several parents give their feedback about TOPP.

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