Confident Parenting
Welcome to Confident Parenting
How long does the course take? You will need time to practice the skills you learn, so we suggest that you complete a session per week over a period of six weeks. This will allow you to put your learning into action and reflect on how well you are doing.
Support: You may find during this course you feel vulnerable, emotional or angry. It is important that you look after yourself emotionally. You will find links to relevant websites and helplines here.
We also recommend that you consider enrolling on a face-to-face parenting course at some point in the future; you will find advice in the programme on how to find parenting support.
Confident Parenting Worksheet
You will learn more on this course if you record your answers. We have provided a worksheet for you to use, but you can create your own document or write your answers on paper if you prefer.
Choose the file type that is best for your computer/device (right-click to download): Confident Parenting Worksheet (Microsoft Word version), Confident Parenting Worksheet (Rich Text Format), Confident Parenting Worksheet (Plain Text version).
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6.5 – How to find support
We all need support in the form of someone to talk to: advice, some guidance or to be with people that understand us or our situation. In Session 1 of this course we asked… Read more
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6.6 – Helping children to learn
Every experience in a child’s life can be a learning experience. Keep talking to children, looking for opportunities to teach them and thinking about how to stimulate them, make them think and help them… Read more
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6.7 – Helping children to learn – a day in the life
Look at the following example that outlines a day in the life of a child. At the end, open your worksheet and write down five learning opportunities in each, and how the parent used… Read more
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6.8 – Helping children to learn – a day in the life 2
Look at the following example that outlines a day in the life of a child. At the end, open your worksheet and write down five learning opportunities in each , and how the parent… Read more
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6.9 – Helping your children learn through everyday activities
How can you do more to support your own children’s learning through everyday activities? Use yesterday as an example: In your worksheet, make a list of five things you did and how you used… Read more
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6.10 – Self esteem
Feeling good about ourselves isn’t always easy. Much of what we deal with in life can leave us feeling battered and bruised. Former abuse, brainwashing or being brought up in an overly critical environment… Read more
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6.11 – Children’s self esteem
It is our job to do everything we can to help our children develop positive self esteem. If we are critical of our children and don’t approve of them they will lack confidence. We… Read more
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6.12 – Time to reflect
We have already covered a lot of ground on the Confident Parenting Course. So far we have: Identified and discussed our responsibilities as parents. Recognised the rights and needs of parents and children in… Read more
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6.13 – Action plan
Finally we would like to leave you with an ‘action plan’ activity. The action plan is like a checklist so you can think about the behaviour that is still difficult in your family and… Read more
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6.14 – Course Completion
Well done! You’ve completed Confident Parenting. If you have anything to say about the course… … please let us know what was good or bad about the course, or other courses you’d like us… Read more