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Raising Children With Confidence

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Promoting positive mental health and emotional well-being

 Raising Children with Confidence Course

 

Wednesdays

27 September – 22 November 2017

12.00 to 2.00pm

Gate 55, 55 Sighthill Road

Free creche available

 

This course aims to give parents and carers the chance to explore emotional well-being and how we can best promote it in ourselves and our children. Drawing on the latest findings and research it helps to explain why what you do makes a difference.

The course comprises of eight sessions (2 hours each) covering the following topics:

  1. Introduction Session
  2. Why Do Kids Do That? (Looking inside children’s brains)
  3. What’s Love Got To Do With It? (How relationships shape child development)
  4. Cotton Wool Kids? (Helping children cope with the ups and downs of life)
  5. Staying Connected! (Listening differently to understand better)
  6. What Makes Us, Us? (How thoughts and feelings influence behaviour)
  7. Time Well Spent? (How to fit it all in, in the 21st century)
  8. Looking back at what we’ve learned (A celebration and certificates)

 If you would like more information or to book a place contact Andrena or Helen at Gate 55 on:  0131 458 5095, Andrena.Graham@ea.edin.sch.uk or Helen.Purves@ea.edin.sch.uk or hand in the slip below to Gate 55.  www.joininedinburgh.org/parenting-programmes/