Education and Learnng
From Partners to Parents
A new baby has a huge impact on a couple’s relationship. This course helps you to understand the responsibilities and expectations of being new parents and develop skills to keep your relationship alive. This is valuable time out together for parents of 0-6 year olds who may be a couple or separated.
Who's it for?
New parents – of 0-6 year olds. Come together or on your own.
Course objectives
- Looking at the journey so far
- Expectations of parenthood
- Considering family messages
- Being a Dad/Mum
- Solving problems
- The issue of money
- Handling rows
- Sex after having a baby
- Making time for yourselves
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Having another child
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Parents Apart
Concerned about how your children will cope with the break-up of your relationship?
Take a crucial day aside to think about how you and your ex-partner can work together to help your children through your separation and the following years.
Who's it for?
Divorced and separated parents.
The best time to attend is as soon as possible after the decision to break up.
Course objectives
- Understanding changes in relationships
- Learning how to be co-parents
- Learning to deal with conflict with your ex-partner
- Communicating with your ex-partner
- How to tell your children about what's happening
- Arranging contact with your children
- Developing strong parent/child relationships after separation
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Riding the Storm: for parents of teenagers
Watching your children grow up is rewarding but as they develop opinions and test out their independence it can be a challenge for any parent. This workshop looks at how to open up communication, improve your relationship with your teenager and explore teenage issues.
The course is suitable for all parents and not just those with a young offender in the family, although it is designed specifically for parents with difficult children.
Who's it for?
Parents of teenagers.
Course objectives
- Support and understanding for the parent
- Better understanding pressures of being a teenager
- Breaking bad parental habits
- Building on existing skills as a parent
- Managing conflict between the parent and teenager
- Negotiating boundaries
- Raising awareness of peer support networks
- Rebuilding relationships
- Stabilising family life
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Kids' Turn
(Courses currently running at Relate Cambridge, Northumberland and Tyneside, and Relate Mid Thames and Buckinghamshire)
Focusing on the wellbeing of the children, this course will give the whole family the opportunity to learn new skills to be able to cope with separation or divorce. The skills learned will also help in other situations beyond the family setting.
Who’s it for?
The best way for the Kids’ Turn programme to work is if parents and children attend together. The adults are usually split into two groups of about ten people in each, and two parents are attending together will always be put in separate groups. Children are separated out into children’s groups according to age (5-7 year olds; 8-10 year olds and teenagers).
Course objectives
We will explore some important “emotional intelligence” concepts in five areas:
- Know Yourself
- Manage Yourself
- Motivation
- Know Others
- Manage Relationships
We will also explore how children may be responding to separation or divorce, and support parents to develop ways of communicating to help with future co-parenting.
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