The Parent Aide Home Visiting Model provides families with a staff or volunteer mentor who works weekly with them in their homes on a variety of goals designed to insure that children are safe and parents have the tools they need to best nurture their children.

National Exchange Club’s Parent Aide Model

• Parent advocate matched with parents of children ages 0-17 for weekly personal visits.
• Parents empowered to identify their strengths and build on them.
• Healthy family communication emphasized.
• Family goals identified and supported.
• Essential self-care is explored and encouraged.

Twelve Alternatives to Lashing Out at Your Child

Make a Change: The next time everyday pressures build up to the point where you feel like lashing out—STOP! Try any of these simple alternatives. You’ll feel better… and so will your child.

• Take a deep breath… and another. Then remember you are the adult.
• Close your eyes and imagine you’re hearing what your child is about to hear.
• Press your lips together and count to 10… or better yet, to 20.
• Put your child in a time-out (remember this rule: one time-out minute for each year of age).
• Put yourself in a time-out chair. Think about why you are angry: is it your child, or is your child simply a convenient target for your anger.
• Phone a friend.
• If someone can watch the children, go outside and take a walk.
• Take a hot bath or splash cold water on your face.
• Hug a pillow.
• Turn on some music. Maybe even sing along!
• Sit down and list as many helpful words as you can think of. Save the list.
• Call for prevention information: 406-252-9799.