Parenting Workshops UK,Workshop for Parents

New for Autumn 2009

The Parent Practice responds to parents' interests

We now will be running the workshops that you want in one of two ways:

1. Hosted workshops in your own home
(Click here for details)

2. Workshops in our centres on topics chosen by you
(click here for details)

Hosted Workshops

If you would like to run a workshop in your home for you and your friends please complete a 'Hosted Workshops Form' (click title to access form - NOT YET ACTIVE) or give us a call/send us an email.

No prior experience with The Parent Practice is required for you arrange a workshop. Workshops are interactive, stimulating and give people practical skills to take and use right away with their children.

Cost: £45 per person based on a mimumum of 10 people (you can have a smaller number but the cost per person will rise accordingly. We would not recommend less than 6). For workshops either in the congestion charge zone or more than a 30 minute journey from South London the price may rise to £50 per person. We will agree the rate with you as soon as you make your booking and we know the proposed location of the talk.

Duration: 2 1/2 hours with a 15 min break in the middle.

Times: Daytimes (typically 9:30 or 10am start) or evening (typically 7:30pm start).

Topics: Please click here for out list of workshops. All workshops (unless already age specific) can be tailored to a particular age group if we know that all the parents attending have similar age children.

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Workshops at our centre where you choose the Topic

Please lets us know what topic(s) you are interested in by completing the 'Register Interest in Workshop Topics' form Click here to access form.

When we have enough people expressing an interest in a given topic we will set a time/date and location and let you know. If the time works for enough people the workshop will go ahead.

Cost: £45 per person

Duration: 2 1/2 hours with a 15 min break in the middle.

Times: Either Daytimes (typically 9:30 or 10am start) or evening (typically 7:30pm start).

Topics: Please click here for our list of workshops. All workshops (unless already age specific) can be tailored to a particular age group if we know that all the parents attending have similar age children.

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Topics we offer:

Click on the titles to see a more detailed description of each workshop.

Positive Discipline, Finding the Balance

How to Talk so Children will Listen and Listen so Children will Talk

How to be an Even Better Dad (just for fathers)

Raising Confident Children.

Bringing out the Best in your Children

Fostering Harmony between Brothers and Sisters

Bringing out the Best in Boys

Raising Girls

The Teenage Years

Bringing out the Best in Boys

It can be a tough world out there for boys. They may be under-performing at school, having trouble with organisation or getting into trouble. Some boys’ high energy and excessive competitiveness can be difficult to live with and some are aggressive. Boys typically find it difficult to express or manage their emotions. The facilitators at The Parent Practice have applied their training, research and knowledge gleaned from years of working with parents of boys to develop skills and strategies to help boys become self-assured, cooperative and motivated. We show parents how to help boys channel their high energy constructively and how to manage aggression. We give parents tools for communicating in a style that suits boys and teach techniques for encouraging boys to talk.

The talk will cover:

What kind of an adult man do you want your son to be?
Effective ways to manage boys high energy, physicality and aggression.
Ways of encouraging boys to do their best without being excessively competitive.
Setting up structure and routine to help boys thrive.
Helping boys manage and express emotions.

After this workshop you will have many concrete ideas and strategies to take home and apply the next morning.

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Raising Girls

Do you worry about bringing up a girl in today’s world? This talk looks at the issues that are especially relevant to girls and how parents can help. In particular we teach practical and effective strategies for fostering strong self esteem and for helping your daughter have positive friendships.

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The Teenage Years

Many parents approach the teenage years with some anxiety. Adolescents experience many changes in brain development and in hormones during this period which can impact behaviour dramatically. Parents often report a sudden change in their children and feel they no longer know how to respond to this new person in their midst. They need new strategies to enable them to communicate effectively, to maintain effective boundaries and to support their children through a time of great change.

Parents need to be able to communicate well with their teens if they are to reduce conflict, help improve their teenagers’ self-esteem and to minimise the impact of peer pressure. Listening effectively to teens helps improve their ability to solve problems, to develop judgment and to be considerate of others. It also encourages teens to come to their parents if they need help.

In this workshop we teach strategies that help foster a really positive relationship between parent and teen.

This 2 ½ hour talk run by the Parent Practice is both thought-provoking and practical and is suitable for parents of children approaching the teenage years as well as parents whose children are already teenagers.

The talk will cover:

Understanding teenagers’ behaviour and focusing on the positive aspects of it, no matter how small

Boosting teenagers’ self-esteem
Engaging with teens so they want to listen to you
Motivating teens to willingly cooperate
Listening actively to encourage teens to talk
Maintaining boundaries that generate respect, foster harmony and instill good values

Our facilitators have years of experience working with parents to help transform their family lives. They are all parents themselves. The interactive talks leave parents feeling much more positive, with ideas to put into practice and practical steps to take.

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Calmer Parents, Happier Children

Would you like to stay calm and be positive with your children but sometimes feel that is impossible? Learn how to get children to be more cooperative and considerate and how to establish practices which help you remain calm more often when provoked

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Fostering Harmony between Siblings

Do your children often bicker, argue or fight? Do they come to you complaining about each other or telling tales? Parents find it very upsetting to witness their child being cruel to his/her sibling. This workshop will give you practical skills to help your children be more tolerant and considerate of each other and resolve arguments successfully.

We will show you how much can be done to make it easier for your children to like each other. We will look at the causes of the rivalry and teach you many practical, well-tried solutions to help reduce the fighting and create a more harmonious environment. We will also look at effective ways to intervene without appointing yourself judge and to help the children resolve their own disputes.

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How to be an Even Better Dad

Today men are finding a voice in parenting which is often different from that expressed by their own fathers and they are redefining their role as Dads. Being a father presents men with many challenges to their patience, time, understanding, financial and emotional resources. This workshop celebrates the vital role fathers play in raising their children and shows you how to make the most of the time you have with your children and be both positive and firm with your children. It also looks at how to be an effective team with the children’s mother

This 2 ½ hour talk run by the Parent Practice is both thought-provoking and practical and is suitable for fathers of children of any age. It will be presented by two male presenters with much experience and great understanding of the male approach to parenting.

The talk will cover:

The positive male attributes that men bring to parenting. Choosing the style of parenting you want.
Ways of encouraging cooperation and building self esteem in your children
How to foster good behaviour and good communication skills in your children
Positive and effective methods of discipline that engender respect and teach good values

Our facilitators have years of experience working with parents to help transform their family lives. The interactive talks leave parents feeling much more positive, with ideas to put into practice and practical steps to take.

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Positive Discipline

Finding the Balance

Many parents find disciplining their children one of the hardest things to do. They often feel they swing from being too lenient to being overly harsh and may not want to repeat patterns from their own childhoods. Parents want to ensure that their children are respectful and cooperative and often want to find ways of achieving that without being dictatorial or punitive. We teach parents ways of achieving a balance so that they can be both positive and firm at the same time and can establish harmony at home whilst maintaining a positive relationship with their children. We address the reasons for inappropriate behaviour, how to encourage good behaviours and how to respond effectively when children don't behave well.

This workshop covers:

What is ‘Positive Discipline’
Why children misbehave
How to get children to willingly cooperate
Establishing rules and routines that children are motivated to follow
Helping children accept responsibility and deal with their mistakes.

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Raising Confident Children

Encouraging independence and resourcefulness

Strong self-esteem is vital for children to be their best and to cope with the ups and downs of life. This workshop will explore the vital part parents play in improving their children’s self-esteem and confidence. It will look at research into the importance of self-esteem and will give parents practical and effective ways to improve their children’s self-confidence , nurture independence and encourage the children to deal constructively with challenges. You will also have a more clear sense of how self-esteem develops over time and how you can be a positive participant in that process.

The talk will cover:

What makes a confident child
Why self-esteem is important
How to raise a child’s self-esteem
Nurturing independence
How to help a children stand up for himself

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Sometimes your children just seem to do the very thing that pushes your buttons and at these times it is very easy to overreact and then regret it later. This workshop will give you skills and strategies to help you keep your cool in these situations and respond positively to your children's behaviour.

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Managing Meltdowns and Misbehaviour

When your children don’t get what they want do they have ‘melt downs’, shouting, screaming, or hitting? Do you lose your temper when they

mimic or pull faces or blow raspberries? Do you sometimes feel like

slapping them if they tell you to shut up, swear or use a rude

tone of voice?

In this workshop we look at the reasons why children misbehave and give strategies for dealing with it in a more effective and positive way.

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Helping Girls have a Positive body image and Self Esteem

Do you worry about bringing up a girl in today’s world? Do you want your daughter to really believe in herself and feel positive about her physical traits whatever they are? This talk looks at the issues that are particularly relevant to girls and how parents can help. In particular the talk will focus on practical and effective strategies for fostering strong self-esteem and for helping your daughter have a positive body image. This course is suitable for parents of girls of any age.

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Helping Children Cope with Life’s Knocks and deal with Bullying

Strong self-esteem is vital for children to help them cope with the inevitable knocks of life. This workshop shows you how to use praise to really improve your children’s confidence and belief in themselves and how to encourage them to deal with things constructively when they face challenges. It will also address effective strategies for dealing with and avoiding any bullying children might face.

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