PARENT LINK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SELF-ESTEEM

All programs and materials must be culture and gender sensitive, be understandable to a wide audience (user friendly), and be based on the belief that:

You influence your children's behavior the most when you:

• Become aware of and change your own behavior first
• Understand your own core values, teach them by example, and assist your children in establishing their own values.
• Provide security (emotional and physical) with non-punitive, positive discipline (natural and logical consequences) and a sense of belonging.
• Enable and encourage children to establish and assume personal and social responsibility for their own actions.
• Promote mutual,caring communication with dignity and respect.
• Develop a passion, a sense of purpose and share that purpose with your children. Most of all, model this passion for your children. Assist your children in setting goals so they can establish a passion that they value.