I am a certified Parent Practice Educator who teaches The Parent Practice’s flagship Positive Parenting Core Skills Course.

What you’ll learn in a nutshell

My course will help you move from being driven insane by your children’s behaviour and feeling cross, upset and guilty, to getting your children listening to you and behaving well. Your household will be a calmer and kinder place.

You will do this by learning in detail about the magic of descriptive praise; emotion coaching; rules and rewards and positive discipline. This all helps you get your children co-operating with you, taking responsibility for their own feelings and actions and improving their self-esteem and emotional resilience.

Positive Parenting Core Skills Course Dates

This course runs on Zoom on Thursday evening

• Start date: 8th June 2023
• Last class: 6th July 2023
• Time: 7:45 - 9:45pm
• Cost for 5 week course with emailed handbook: £220
• Cost for 5 week course with printed, bound handbook: £250
• Paying in installments is acceptable by prior arrangement

I only take small numbers on my Core Skills Course which means you get a lot of my time and attention and you can bond with your group

Positive Parenting Advanced Skills course

This course runs on Zoom on Wednesday evenings

• Start date: 19th April 2023
• Last class: 17th May 2023
• Time: 7:45 - 9:45pm
• Cost for 5 week course with emailed handbook: £220
• Cost for 5 week course with printed, bound handbook: £250
• Paying in installments is acceptable by prior arrangement

“I should have done your course when the children were younger”

- Penny (children aged 11 and 8)

“Before I took your course I had no idea how much I would learn and how much it would help our family life”

- Emma with I and G (9)

" There is something to learn for every parent on this course. It has transformed my mornings and I feel I have the tools to get the best out of my children. Teaching them to be independent and encouraging them to do what they can to help make family life more harmonious!

- Maria - S (7), A (5) and M (3.5)

Core Positive Parenting Skills - the details:

Building Self-Esteem in children

My whole core skills course supports you to help your children have strong self-esteem, good mental and emotional well-being and to be resilient in the face of adversity.

• Week 1 - Descriptive Praise: - Helps you get your children’s co-operation, encourages good behaviour and builds their self-esteem
• Week 2 - Emotion Coaching: - Teaches your children to manage emotions like anger and builds connections and communication between you
• Week 3 - Setting Up For Success - Makes your home life more peaceful and less stressful by preparing children
• Week 4 - Values, Rules and Rewards: - Gets you thinking about your family values, boundaries for your children and how to use rewards sensibly
• Week 5 - Positive Discipline: - Helps you maintain high standards of behaviour and deal with misbehaviour positively

Who are my parenting courses suitable for?

My Assured Parenting courses are suitable for anyone who spends time raising children or working with them.

It’s so easy to think we should just be able to raise our children without help. We ask for help to have our children by attending childbirth classes and I am certainly taking my puppy to dog training classes. There is so much I can help parents with. I can give you a roadmap with the tools you need to raise your children in a kind, happy an and positive home environment.

The course has been developed by experienced parenting practitioners and is based on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience as well as years of practical work with thousands of families.

“I think before the course I thought it was expensive. Now I think it’s good value!"

- James - R (4) and R (2)

Applied Positive Parenting Skills:

Once you have completed your Core Skills course you can learn the applied skills with me

• Week 6 - Developing independence and encouraging good habits; learning to parent your child and their temperament effectively; helping your child to understand themselves, be self-reliant and have confident life skills.
• Week 7 - Fostering good relationships between siblings and friends; encouraging social skills and positive relationships and learning to resolve conflict harmoniously.
• Week 8 - Building self-reliance in children; learning how to be authoritative without being controlling and using positive discipline to encourage teachable moments
• Week 9 - Keeping Calm: tapping into your positive parenting skills in explosive moments! Understanding your children’s ‘ages and stages’ of development so you can have realistic expectations.
• Week 10 - What to do when your children push your buttons: helping you learn to recognise and deactivate your buttons, so that when your children ‘push your buttons’ (and they always know just how to!) you can react appropriately.

Positive Parenting Monthly Membership Group

I also run a monthly membership group for those who have graduated from the courses to help you keep your skills fresh and up to date. Please email me at info@assuredparenting.co.uk for more information about this

Please do get in touch with me if you would like bespoke parent coaching or have any other questions.

If you would like to come to a taster class, you are welcome to. Numbers are limited for this so please email me on info@assuredparenting.co.uk

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