Developed over a two-and-a-half-year period at Des Moines Family Learning Center, this series of 30-week workshops allows parents to share problems and advice, becoming familiar with the ways in which other parents handle family situations. The series is divided into the following three sections: self-esteem, misbehavior, and emotions; creativity, developing language, developing reading, and motivation; and communication breakdowns and remedies, listening, and talking. Each section is intended to occupy a ten-week period, with nine workshops and a discussion guide for the tenth workshop. Included in this document are a communications bibliography and a communications film list. (JM)