The course helped me to step back, remove the emotional ‘charge’ from the situation and begin to understand what might be happening; looking at my behaviour and my interactions with my son first.
“The course is phenomenal. It has made a profound difference to the individual lives within -and well-being of – our family. Thank you for funding my participation – and please keep funding this programme; ideally, increase the funding available to reach even more parents.
I’m an educated woman (with 2 Masters Degrees – one in Coaching and Behavioural Change!) yet I was ill equipped to deal with the changes in my son’s behaviour.
The course helped me to step back, remove the emotional ‘charge’ from the situation and begin to understand what might be happening; looking at my behaviour and my interactions with my son first. The facilitators were highly skilled in helping each member of the group to identify their own challenges, and supported us in developing solutions rooted in Carolyn Webster-Stratton’s approach.
Tonight my son told me that a friend’s parent had shouted at him. So I explored why and how this had made him feel. He then asked me if I’d been shouted at when I was a child. I said yes, lots of times, especially by my mummy. He then told me that I was a better mummy. We explored this further – he meant a better mummy than his grandmother but when I asked him if I was a better mummy than before he said yes. I asked him if my course had helped me and he said “yes, it’s made you calmer”. Then he said something surprising … ‘the course helped me too because you learned me things from it like being calmer and listening more”.
So I hope you can see that the learning has spread from me to my children and made all of our relationships richer as a result. I can’t thank you enough for this wonderful gift.