08. Investing in Parents
$395.00
Annual Digital Subscription (GST inclusive)
Parent education sessions to offer at your school.
The evidence is clear to see. Parent education reduces stress and enhances parenting effectiveness, which directly benefits children’s achievements and wellbeing. Schools play a vital role in linking their parent community to the extensive research on effective parenting by providing regular information sessions on various parenting practices.
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Author
Dr Michael E. Bernard
Target Audience
School leaders, wellbeing coordinators, psychologists, counsellors, and teachers who present parent education sessions
Contents
- Online Parent Education Leader’s Guide
- 11 Session Outlines
- Digital overheads
- Downloadable handouts
Program details
Collection of skill-building sessions
- Reduce parent stress and increase parent wellbeing.
- Strengthen essential parenting skills related to relationship building, discipline, motivation, and social-emotional learning.
- Develop socially and emotionally highly competent children and adolescents.
3 Essential Categories covered
Research-based
Easy to deliver
Sessions are designed to be presented to groups of parents of any size during the day or after school. The sessions generally consist of a mini-lecture presentation, discussion, and activities, taking between 60 – 90 minutes to present.
Alternatively the parent committee can take responsibility for leading and delivery of the sessions.
Positive Parents
The first sessions have a focus on parents, their goals and aspirations, the importance of their self-efficacy, parenting styles and their effects on children as well as how to manage stress and be resilient.
Session 1 – Parenting today: what do you want for your children?
Session 2 – The parenting style that matters most: ‘Authoritative’.
Session 3 – Avoid common mistakes that parents can make (ineffective parenting)
Session 4 – Parent stress management and resilience.
Effective Parents
The following sessions deal with different parenting practices related to parent-child relationships and communication, different ways parents can become involved with their children’s education, how parents can understand and cater for their children’s developing interests and different ways they can motivate their children.
Session 5 – Develop positive relationships with your children.
Session 6 – Be involved in your children’s education.
Part A: Show interest
Part B: Manage homework
Part C: Tutor your child
Part D: Steps to take if your child underachievesSession 7 – Provide children responsibility and involve them in decision-making.
Session 8 – Provide activities that accommodate children’s interests.
Session 9 – How to motivate your children.
Positive Children
The final sessions deal with how parents can teach their children social-emotional learning skills and develop character through teaching values and strengths.
Session 10 – Children’s social-emotional learning at home.
Session 11 – Character education at home: values and strengths
Part A: Values of good character
Part B: Character strengths