What is Confident Parenting?

The Confident Parenting Programme at Families in Action is founded on the premise that:

• Parents are doing their best
• There is no perfect parenting
• Each parent is an expert on his/her own child

During the programme professional expertise will be offered as useful knowledge to add to the parental tool-kit and not as advice imposed from an outsider. This course will help parents to:

• Establish their own style of parenting
• Understand their children’s behaviour
• Find alternative methods of discipline
• Communicate better with children and spouse
• Take some of the stress out of parenting
• Reflect on how they are relating to their children and caring for themselves
• Experiment with new skills, which can be applied both within family and working relationships