Science of Parenting

Parenting is a multifaceted skill that requires parents to provide guidance, instruction, and resources to their children in order to prepare them for the challenges of life. For new parents, it can be difficult to determine the best approach to parenting, which can lead to feelings of stress and uncertainty. However, as your child grows, there are a variety of strategies you can implement to support their development, including adopting a positive parenting approach, prioritizing their safety, and promoting their overall health and well-being. By engaging in these exercises, you can gain a deeper understanding of your child’s growth and development and provide them with the tools they need to thrive. Parenting is a multifaceted skill that requires parents to provide guidance, instruction, and resources to their children in order to prepare them for the challenges of life. For new parents, it can be difficult to determine the best approach to parenting, which can lead to feelings of stress and uncertainty. However, as your child grows, there are a variety of strategies you can implement to support their development, including adopting a positive parenting approach, prioritizing their safety, and promoting their overall health and well-being. By engaging in these exercises, you can gain a deeper understanding of your child’s growth and development and provide them with the tools they need to thrive.

 

1. The purpose of this course:

It is to help you learn principles and communication skills to create a happy and nurturing climate within your home.

2. The Goal of Parenting:

Our primary goal, as we parent, is not just solving an immediate problem but rather the long-term maturation and development of our children.

3. Overview of Family Climate:

Families vary on two dimensions: how responsive we are to our children and how demanding we are. These dimensions result in four styles of parenting: uninvolved, permissive, authoritarian, and nurturing.

4. The Permissive Climate:

Help you understand the characteristics of a permissive climate and share examples of parenting young children and teens when we are permissive.

5. The Authoritarian Climate:

Describe the characteristics and give examples of an authoritarian family climate.

6. The Uninvolved Climate:

Describes how an uninvolved climate might affect the child.

7. The Nurturing Climate:

Help you understand how nurturing parents communicate and interact with their children.

8. The Key Moment Model:

Key moments are upsetting situations or events when it’s easy to get hooked and react to our children. As we learn to handle them well, we use them to help our children grow in responsibility and emotional maturity.

9. Over-Managing & Overindulging:

Guides you through the clingy ways of parenting and how to avoid them.

10. Maturation Over Problem-Solving:

We respond very differently if our primary goal is maturation rather than solving problems during key moments.

11. The Cycle of Strengthening Behavior:

You will learn the three skill sets that form the foundation of all positive parent-child interactions.

12. What We Do That Strengthens:

A document summarising the skills we use to strengthen our children during key moments.

13. Outcomes of Our Communication:

The objectives of our communication are more than solving the immediate problem. It includes building trust, enhancing self-worth, and fostering maturation.

14. Creating safe and trusting conditions (Empathy):

• • Overview of the Empathy Skills
  • Respecting
  • Affirming
  • Listening-Part I
  • Listening-Part II-Mirroring
  • Supporting

15. Creating an honest environment (Honesty skills):

• • Overview of the Empathy Skills
  • Respecting
  • Affirming
  • Listening-Part I
  • Listening-Part II-Mirroring
  • Supporting