Foundations of effective parenting
This course is about developing parenting practices that guide your child’s healthy development and provide opportunities for learning and growth.
The course is about building a strong attachment and connection with your child as well as developing skills that encourage appropriate behaviour and help you resolve parent-child conflicts.
Who is the course for?
The course is for parents of children of all ages and stages of development: infants, toddlers, and adolescents. The course is also useful for parents-to-be.
Course objectives
The goals of this course are twofold:
- To help parents create a strong foundation of parenting, and
- To use this foundation as a springboard to parenting practices that help children develop skills that are essential to well-being: empathy and compassion, decision-making and problem-solving, communication, accountability, responsibility, self-confidence and self-belief, and appropriate behaviour
What you will learn
- How to encourage the development of empathy, decision-making skills, communication skills, accountability, responsibility, self-confidence and self-belief.
- The power of modeling as a form of observational learning.
- How to use active listening and “I-messages” to improve communication with children.
- When to use charting and behaviour contracting to encourage appropriate behaviour and discourage inappropriate behaviour.
- How to maintain a role in your child’s development as peers and other factors (e.g. internet, media) become increasingly influential.
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