Coping Skills, LLC; Baton Rouge, Louisiana

THE COPING SKILLS PROGRAM
Storybooks that teach cognitive, emotional and behavioral skills

YOU WANT TO BE A GOOD PARENT AND
HELP YOUR CHILDREN BE SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY!

The best thing you can do for your children to insure that they will have a happy, successful life is to teach them how to cope with life. Coping Skills are defined as:

"The ability to experience a less than optimal situation, face it, accept it, and proceed forward with an adaptive response." (Kendall, 1992)

The Coping Skills books are designed to do just that! With the help of a comical crow, Cosmos, you have stories and lessons in each volume that will help your children develop the skills to cope with life difficulties. Your children will be able and willing to take personal responsibility. They will be able to resist negative peer pressure. They will be willing to face tasks that are difficult, scary or boring because they will accept that these tasks are necessary.

And this can all be accomplished though fun stories that your children will remember all of their lives. You don't have to lecture or threaten or punish, if they understand that "Good Thinking" leads to "OK emotions" and "Thumbs Up" behaviors. But be cautioned…it's not magic, and it does take some work, but the rewards are great and the alternatives to not developing these skills are not.

PARENT'S POEM

Some day when my children are old enough to understand
the logic that motivates a parent I will tell them:

I loved you enough to ask you where you were going,
with whom, and what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that
your new best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room.
A job that would have taken me 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions
even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough to say "no" when I knew you would hate me for it.

Those were the most difficult battles of them all. I'm glad I won them
because in the end you won something too.

Anonymous

COPING SKILLS HELP IS AVAILABLE

You may contact us at copingskill@cox.net with any questions you have about the books and manuals we have available. Also feel free to contact us if you have questions about the use of any of the materials.