Positive Parenting Courses
‘Unlock the heart of the mighty oak you can be’
I, Alison Green, am a Licensed Facilitator with Care for the Family.
Care for the Family is a national charity which aims to promote strong family life and help those who face
family difficulties. To find out more about Care for the Family please click here to navigate to their website:
I am passionate about family life;
Nurturing children has been the most awesome
and one of the best experiences of my life.
Helping my children discover who they are and seeing them now flourish as adults is truly spectacular,
I am so proud of my children.
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I know parenting can be like a roller-coaster ride of navigating the ups and downs, the twists and turns:
the joys, the fears, the unknowns,
the struggles, the hopes....
Positive Parenting Courses
Positive Parenting Courses offer support, encouragement and tools
to help parents as they ride their roller-coaster journey.
The courses provide lots of information and ideas to help you engage with your children and
boost your relationship. Each week, as you try out new strategies at home, you’ll find your skills
developing and your confidence increasing. Over the period of the course, you’ll discover
fresh approaches which will help to improve your family life.
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There are several courses on offer:
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Time Out For Parents - The Early Years is for parents who have children aged 0-4 years
Session 1: Expectations and realities of parenting Session 2: Children’s needs Session 3: Play and listening
Session 4: Parenting styles Session 5: Discipline and safety Session 6: The wider family
Cost: to cover costs participants are invited to make a voluntary contribution of £30/parent.
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Time Out For Parents - The Primary Years is for parents who have children aged 5-11 years
Session 1: What being a parent’s really like! Session 2: Children’s needs Session 3: Feelings and listening
Session 4: Boundaries and parenting styles Session 5: Keeping safe Session 6: Building strong families
Cost: to cover costs participants are invited to make a voluntary contribution of £30/parent.
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Time Out For Parents - The Teen Years is for parents who have children aged 11-16 years
Session 1: Temperament and emotional needs Session 2: Why it’s tough being a teenager
Session 3: Parenting styles Session 4: Communication Session 5: Handling conflict
Session 6: The big issues Session 7: Keeping our teenagers safe in the digital age
Session 8: Building strong families
Cost: to cover costs participants are invited to make a voluntary contribution of £40/parent.
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Time Out For Parents - Handling Anger in the Family
is for parents who have children aged 4-16 years
The first two sessions will help you understand anger as a natural emotion and
how you can handle this safely using practical strategies and the idea of an anger river.
The final two sessions look at equipping you to help your child understand how anger affects them, how to recognise when they enter the anger river and practical and tested ways of handling anger safely and healthily.
Cost: to cover costs participants are invited to make a voluntary contribution of £20/parent.
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Course Details
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Venue: Bridport Christian Fellowship King's Lane, Bridport, DT6 3PL
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Cost: to cover costs participants are invited to make a voluntary contribution, the amount is given
above in each of the course details. Cost includes a copy of the course handbook.
If making this contribution is a problem there is an option to pay less.
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What to Expect: There may be between 4 to 20 parents on a course.
The facilitator guides each session to enable parents to look at the session topics in a safe environment
where we can learn from one another as experiences, struggles and ideas are shared.
You will not be asked to share or do anything which you are not comfortable with.
There is also the opportunity to look at some current thinking and best practice in parenting education.
Each session is a blend of upfront presentation, individual activities and small group discussion.
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How to Book: please use contact form below.
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2023 Courses
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Early years: 6 sessions on Mondays 15 & 22 May, 5, 12, 19 & 26 June at 9.30am-11am.
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Handling Anger in the Family: 4 sessions on Wednesdays 7, 14, 21 & 28 June.at 7.45pm-9.45pm.
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Primary Years: 6 sessions dates to be confirmed.
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Teen Years: 8 sessions dates to be confirmed.
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Individual Coaching or Mentoring for Parent/s
Attending any of the above parenting courses can be of immense help and encouragement.
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However you may wish to go broader or deeper in engaging with parenting and family life,
or perhaps you have specific issues you wish to tackle,
or perhaps you feel overwhelmed with the huge task of parenting and need to gain insight, focus and direction.
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Whatever your reason or need having some individual or couple coaching or mentoring time can be of great worth. If you would like to explore this as an option and find out more, please use the contact form above.
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Find out more or Book places
Please use the contact form below to:
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Enquire or ask anything about Positive Parenting Courses.
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Book a place/s on any Positive Parenting Course
listed above.
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Register your interest for a course:
If you are interested in attending a specific course which is not yet being promoted here, please register your interest .
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Enquire about Individual Coaching or Mentoring for parent/s.
Partnership
Positive Parenting Courses
are run in partnership with
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To find out more about
Bridport Christian Fellowship please
click here to navigate to their website:
Courses do not contain material of
any faith or religious nature.
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Positive Parenting Courses are also
promoted via other local churches, schools, health centres and community facilities.
Working in partnership to support
local families is important.