BECOME A BETTER PARENT – ONLINE COURSE

Written by Renee Mill on January 12, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Children, Parenting

Lots and lots of families have little child-raising hiccups that cause big headaches all round! The good news is that these little problems can often be fixed with little, easy solutions that can make a big difference to a family’s cohesiveness and happiness.

I have recently received a number of enquiries about my Become a Better Parent online course and want to share details of it for those interested.

This course is made up of six sections. The course is based on a wholistic approach to parenting – where all factors which may be contributing to your child’s challenging behaviour are taken into account.

Each section is made up of different topics and each topic can be explored and learned separately.

Section 1.

This section deals with you the parent. We will look at what qualities you bring to the parenting relationship. What can you change that will impact your child’s challenging behaviour in a positive way?

Topic 1. Your history and your temperament.

Topic 2. Your outlook on life and your reasons for having this child in the first place.

Topic 3. The importance of building your own self esteem in order to be an effective parent.

Topic 4. Ideas and techniques on how to practically build your self esteem as a parent.

Section 2.

Section 2 will assist you to work more collaboratively with your partner.

Topic 1. Embracing differences in parenting styles to your child’s benefit.

Topic 2. Easy ways to work together to benefit your child even if you disagree with one another.

Section 3.

Moving the focus to the context in which your child operates, this section teaches you to educate your child on how to behave towards you and the world in general.

Topic 1. The importance of being assertive and taught how to become assertive.

Topic 2. Teaching your child that you have feelings, needs and cannot be totally available.

Topic 3. The importance of running a non-chaotic home – and how to achieve it.

Topic 4. Taking responsibility for setting the right tone at home and the importance of you being an appropriate role model.

Section 4.

Moving now to working on your child directly, this section is all about building the self esteem of your child. Self esteem is not only about success but about better behaviour.

Topic 1. Ways of building self esteem

Topic 2. Helpful praise

Topic 3. Teaching optimism

Topic 4. Focusing on character rather than results.

Section 5.

We will now focus on fun, easy ways to gain your child’s co-operation without anger or tears.

Topic 1. Communicate effectively and focus.

Topic 2. Use devices like music, stories, objects, rulers.

Topic 3. Utilise games and humour enticements, associations, inclusion, distraction.

Topic 4. The power of positive reinforcement.

Section 6.

Parents often want to find effective punishment techniques. As a last resort you should punish but know there are many types of punishment besides taking watching TV away.

Topic 1. Before you punish, consider the guilt of the child, your mood, and the child’s mood.

Topic 2. If you are punishing frequently and it is getting nowhere, check these things out to break the pattern and to be more effective.

Topic 3. Types of punishment include withholding praise, making a comment, correcting behaviour, corporal punishment

Topic 4. Consequences.

For more information and to register for the course click here.