Your program kit contains approximately 26 minutes of video to use throughout the seminar to help parents understand key points. The video vignettes clearly illustrate the successful and unsuccessful ways to approach coparenting issues. The families portrayed in the video reflect families in every community.
Note: Crossroads is derived from the more extensive Cooperative Coparenting program and shares much of the same video.
In this scene we see coparents in conflict—watch how this interaction puts their daughter, Rachel in the middle of her parents’ conflict and doesn’t accomplish anything but cause harm.
This segment from our Crossroads of Coparenting video and discussion program demonstrates two different approaches to handling a situation—creating conflict or developing cooperation. In the first scene, Marcus asks his mom for the sneakers he wants, and she tells him to ask his father. When Marcus asks his father, he pushes it back to his mom, leading to conflict with Marcus in the middle. However, in the second part of the segment, the mom suggests discussing sharing the expense with dad. Will Marcus get those sneakers? We don’t know, but what’s important is that these coparents are now working cooperatively.
Best practices make better classes
According to “Parent Education to Strengthen Families and Reduce the Risk of Maltreatment,” a 2013 publication of the US Department of Health and Human Services,
“Research has consistently shown that active learning approaches have greater success than passive approaches (CDC, 2009). Interactive methods include activities such as group discussion, role playing, active modeling, homework exercises, and reviewing videos of effective parenting approaches (Brown, 2005).”
With video, group discussion, and skills development activities, Crossroads of Parenting & Divorce meets all those requirements and more!
Questions? Our Educational Consultants are ready with answers. Call 1-800-825-0060 x2 or email cservice@activeparenting.com.
