This video parent education program is based on the book, SOS Help For Parents and includes the 72 minute VHS, & DVD, Video Leader's Guide, Parent Handouts, Child Management Skills Test (CMST), and SOS Help For Parents book.

The SOS Video is used by counselors, parent groups, educators, churches, and social service professionals and is intended for parenting workshops, staff development, in-service training, teacher training, classroom use, and counseling.

Part One may be viewed by a group or individually. For Part Two, a group leader should guide the discussion following each of the parenting scenes. The easy-to-use Video Leader's Guide offers discussion questions for each scene. Enjoyable and user-friendly, the SOS Video program educates others in more than 20 parenting skills. Over 8,000 programs are in use.

Child Management skills and concepts presented:

• Reward good behavior
• Social rewards
• Activity rewards
• Material rewards
• Point rewards
• Grandma's Rule
• Active ignoring
• Scolding
• Natural consequences
• Logical consequences
• Time-Out
• Time-Out for toys
• Behavior penalty
• No harsh punishment
• Giving instructions
• Reflective listening
• Building self-esteem
• Be a good model
• Three rules to follow
• Four errors to avoid

Reviews

"SOS is an extremely comprehensive book...an excellent book. We highly recommend it."
-- Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

"Lynn Clark...drew from his 20 years of working with parents and children when he wrote SOS Help For Parents.
-- USA Today

"It's a wonderful book...easy to read, simple, and based on sound research."
-- Emel Summer, MD, Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, DePaul Health Center, St. Louis, Missouri

SOS books -- "great teaching tools for our staff as well as parents."
-- Director of Hospital Child Unit, Augusta, Georgia

"SOS turned our family around...I really regained my self-confidence as a parent."
-- Mother of two, Riverview, Michigan

"...easy to read and it's content is excellent."
-- Contemporary Psychology Journal

"SOS...cannot help but make a parent's life easier and more enjoyable. I endorse it with enthusiasm!"
-- A.J. Moser, Director, Center For Human Potential

"...I am in Istanbul, Turkey and have found your book quite helpful with Turkish parents..."
-- Yanki Yazgan, MD, Child Psychiatry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

"Both teachers and parents in Hungary consider SOS Help For Parents very useful and the feedback is quite good."
-- Anna Decsi and Barnane Marta Likovszky, Budapest, Hungary

"SOS Help For Parents empowers parents with the tools for child rearing using a positive, consistent and simple-to-follow program . . . . will enable parents to feel more competent and confident in their parenting skills as well as in their communication skills with their children."
-- National Association of School Psychologists, Communique'