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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

Program details

Collection of skill-building sessions
Sessions are designed to:
  • 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
The topics and content covered in Investing in Parents fall into three categories: positive parents, effective parents, and positive children. Each category is outlined further below.
Research-based
The content included in each parent session is based on an extensive study of what international research in the fields of parenting, child development, and related fields has discovered about ways that parents socialise and influence their achievement and wellbeing.
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.

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