The Internet brings parents a wealth of information when it comes to raising children in a happy, productive home. Parents search for information when wanting to find techniques to discipline kindly, how to communicate with older children as they find their way in life, and how to help themselves be a positive roll model within their home. What happens when articles might not be enough? Hands on discussion may be the way to go.

Created by Sondra Santos LaBrie in August 2007, Happy Healthy Hip Parenting is a Web site and blog dedicated to workshops headed by LaBrie that will help guide parents to positive family balance between siblings and parents and children. The list of workshops offered is extensive and covers just about every family moment, from aggressive children, balancing discipline and family, effective communication skills, to even positive communication between parents.

A complete supportive parenting program, each parenting workshop offered is 90-minutes of discussion that will reinforce the skills parents have to focus on and resolve difficult issues, help to educate their children on how to solve their own struggles, and offers tips on how to be more positive with children’s emotions. Parents will also learn techniques to instill self-confidence within their children and how to effectively deal with stress.

In addition to the parenting workshops offered at Happy Healthy Hip Parenting, you will also find a weekly newsletter, Parenting News You Can Use. This newsletter, in cooperation with the International Network for Children and Families, is a weekly publication filled with tips by various professionals to help you in continuing your positive parenting. Sondra LaBrie has been kind enough to allow The Parent Spot to offer you a direct link to this highly informational newsletter. Each week readers can find the latest newsletter by clicking on the Happy Healthy Hip Newsletter link in the sidebar.

Note: Sondra Santos LaBrie and Happy Healthy Hip Parenting are offering a parenting retreat in August, Redirecting Children’s Behavior, in La Jolla, California. Click here for more information.

Sondra Santos LaBrie is an International Network for Children and Families parenting coach located in San Diego, California. If you would like to find an INCAF instructor in your area, please click here.

This is an original The Parent Spot post.