Rachel McMillan Children’s Centre Greenwich CAMHS Under 5s team:
10 TOP TIPS: Positive Parenting Workshops The ‘Ten Top Tips’ parent workshops are designed to offer useful, practical and effective strategies for the positive management of young children’s behaviour (from the age of about 2½ and older). These workshops are available in many of the Royal Borough of Greenwich Children’s Centres. Each 2-hour session can be taken as a standalone workshop, or as a series that form a longer course of Positive Parenting ideas. 10 TOP TIPS workshops
1 Parenting Under
Pressure 06/02/15 9.30 – 11.30 a.m. 2 Playful Parenting The benefits of one-onone play & quality time.
13/02/15 9.30 – 11.30 a.m. 3 The Power of Praise Using praise that is effective
27/02/15
Outline
Parenting is stressful. These 10 top tips help you to think about your reactions to your children’s mis-behaviour. Managing your own stress levels will help children to be calmer & lead them to show more co-operation. If you can control how you handle stress, you will also enjoy your children more. ‘Show me two people who have fun together on a regular basis, and I’ll show you a good relationship’ (Phelan, 2010). These 10 top tips explain how small children learn about the world, and develop the skills of cooperation via play. Parents will learn to support children in their play and build a stronger parent-child relationship which is also the cornerstone of effective discipline.
“how the children feel about playtime is important. It makes them feel love etc. It opened up a lot of how I was playing wrong and how I should be doing it”.
Many parents know that praising children can gain better behaviour but do you know there are effective and ineffective ways of giving praise? Come and find out about the ten powerful praise tips that guarantee better behaviour!
“I will use praise much more and use the naughty step less”
As well as looking at boundaries, limit setting discipline and punishment, this workshop helps parents set up family rules. When rules are broken, parents often punish too much, and these tips help parents work out when (and when not) to punish and how to promote co-operation through using specific praise.
“The thing I have learnt today is to keep calm and be positive about what my child is doing well”.
Time Out for children can be very effective, but can be over-used and lead to worse rather than better behaviour. Of all the parenting tools, time-out is often the most misunderstood. Come and learn tips about when to use time-out, and TOA’s that may prove more useful. We will also look at smacking and the importance of role modelling the behaviour we want to encourage.
“I have learnt not to use time out so much”.
Are you in control of technology in your home, or does technology control you and your family? These Tips will tell you the pros and cons of computer and internet use and how to positively manage your children’s use of tablets (ipads) and smart phones.
“It was interesting watching the video clips – gave me lots of food for thought”.
1-3 p.m. Limit Setting & Boundaries How to set appropriate and fair limits for young children.
6/03/15
Parents comments “It was helpful to learn some strategies to keep calm and not get so stressed easily” “I know to keep my temper down and shout less” “I will think before I speak and have ideas of what to say instead of ‘no’ “
“I now know the feeling the kids get when they get good attention”.
“Many examples given; great to hear ideas from other parents”. “I will praise my child at all times when he acts well”
“The workshop was great. It brings up things we as parents know, but don’t put into practice. I will now try not to punish so often”
1-3 p.m. 5 Time Out Using Punishments that work.
13/03/15 1-3 p.m. 6 Managing the Extra
Parent Controlling technology use at home
“I understand the parenting pyramid that focusses more on good behaviour and less on time out”. “I realise I need to stay calm when using time out or naughty chair”.
“I will now reduce my 2 year old’s time on the ipad, now I know so much time on it makes him very irritable”.