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3.13 – Honesty scenarios – feedback
Honesty is straightforward communication: it is telling the truth, and it is being fair and sincere. If you are honest with your children they are…
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3.14 – Why is honesty important in a family?
Each family is individual and has different values and morals. In your worksheet, answer the following questions: Question Why is…
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3.15 – Being honest with our children
We can all think of a time when we have not been entirely honest with our children. Sometimes they were white lies, or maybe we…
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3.16 – Being honest with our children – scenarios
Look at the following scenarios. Choose two scenarios from the list below. Then answer the following questions: How old is your child? How would…
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3.17 – Being honest with our children scenarios – feedback
Did you mention any of the following? ScenarioWhat others said 1. It’s all about the money! “Right now I do…
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4.1 – Session 4. Growth and development
Parents discuss development endlessly – “Jo was out of nappies completely at 18 months.”, “Abdi didn’t crawl he just stood up and walked one day.”,…
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4.2 – Growth and development – feedback
Did your answers include any of the following? Area of developmentHow you can help a child develop it 1. Physical development is…
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4.3 – Ages & stages activity
We have looked at what growth and development is and we know that it is vitally important. Now we need to look at the stages…
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4.4 – Ages and stages – feedback
Here are some of the things that children can do by certain ages in their development. Did you get some of them? AgeAbilities…
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4.5 – Ages & stages – helping your own children
How old are your children? Can you think of ways that you can help them achieve developmental milestones in each area of development? – Physical,…
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4.6 – Teaching our children family rules
How can we help our children to know what the rules in our families are? Knowing the rules is the first step for children to behave in…
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4.7 – Teaching our children family rules – feedback
Obviously many of these suggestions about rules can be used with our children from early childhood through to adulthood. Rules are important and children and…
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4.8 – Behaviour & discipline
This is where we start to look at discipline techniques to deal with behaviour. Earlier in this course we looked at parenting issues, children’s and…
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4.9 – Our own behaviour
If we want our children to make good behaviour choices, then we need to think about how we behave ourselves. Parents as role models Everything…
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4.10 – Positive attention & praise
Have you noticed how we give more attention to children when they are naughty? We notice them doing things we don’t like. Our sentences often…
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4.11 – Positive attention and praise – feedback
Did you come up with any of these? “Good job – I am so proud of you!” “That makes me so happy.” “I knew…
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5.1 – Session 5. Behaviour techniques: introduction
Welcome to Confident Parenting Session 5. How we react to our children’s bad behaviour can influence how they react in the future. If you are shouted…
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5.2 – Ignore where you can
Children tend to continue with behaviour when it is rewarded and stop when it is ignored. You must decide which behaviour is actually ok (it…
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5.3 – Ignore where you can – feedback
How did you get on with the scenarios? Here are some ideas you could use for each of them. ScenarioWhat do you do?…
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5.4 – Complying with our requests or instructions
How do we get our children to comply with our requests or instructions? It can be frustrating as a parent to get our children to…
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5.5 – Complying with our requests and instructions activity
For each of the following, write what instructions and steps would be required Scenario 1. Pyjamas: ask a three year…
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5.6 – Complying with our requests and instructions – feedback
How clear do you think the instructions you wrote were? Did you check that they had been understood and that they knew what was expected…
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5.7 – Complying with our requests and instructions 2
OK, let’s just complete one more activity on how to be clear when giving children instructions. Look at the following case study: Farina is washing…
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5.8 – Negotiation
There are things that you need your children to do and there are things that your children need from you. This is where you start…
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5.9 – Negotiation scenarios
You can agree with what your children want (unless it’s outrageous!), but it’s good to tell them what you need them to do first, then…
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