The programme aims to support parents in their valuable role so they can find their own solutions to childhood challenges and problems. To help their children learn and to be emotionally secure and happy.
Support parents to understand their child’s behaviour and give them the tools to deal with challenging behaviour effectively. Support parents in parenting when they are: separating or divorcing, sharing parenting, parenting in a multicultural society, parenting alone. Support parents to talk to their children about their family situations. Support families to parent through difficult times. Support parents to develop strong relationships with their children.
To become empowered to meet the challenges of parenting.
My 1:1 Parenting Mentoring is a valuable service for parents who need help with an issue and can gain support. The sessions are one hour in duration and time to reflect and discuss, parents have a greater understanding of the child’s behaviour and the reasons behind it. They leave with a clear understanding of how to respond in a way that works better and I get a lot of emails or texts of the improvement they experience.
To help parents to understand their child’s need and respond, to understand the difficult behaviour is about how the child feels and what the child thinks so ‘to get under behaviour’, and if what you are not doing is not working, to respond differently. To be kind, firm but not cross, to be a good role model.
The aim of the programme is to improve the parent-teenager relationship and to provide parents with the skills and knowledge about how to be an authoritative parent, the changes that happen during adolescence and how that affects teenagers thinking and their relationships, how to put in place rules and consequences, how to build teenagers self-esteem, how to manage conflict and problems effectively and access support services.
Prepare the pre-teen/parent for move from more intimate setting to larger groups, more subject choices, more challenges, holding onto yourself when everything around you is changing/moving.
To explore issues that may affect the mental health of young people. Recognising depression in Teenagers. Communicating about self-harm. Risk factors associated with eating disorders.
To help you to understand what is going on behind your child’s or your own anger, and to give you a toolkit for dealing with intense feelings in a compassionate, respectful way.There will be lots of opportunities to explore your own personal parenting challenges. You will be introduced to new concepts but – more importantly – you will learn how to integrate these new ideas into your life when you go home.
Assist in problem solving, effective communication skills and supporting children’s play.