Feedback from parenting courses

Course feedback from a selection of Parents' Workshops

Feedback from parents 

Course Topic: Understanding children’s behaviour and helping them gain confidence. 

  • I enjoyed learning about the stages of child development. 
  • It was brilliant to practice active listening.
  • I was not aware of how labelling children can affect them so this was very helpful.
  • I enjoyed learning about how to give descriptive praise.
  • I found the specific topics on the neuroscience of the brain fascinating and how to use language to stop problems escalating
  • The session gave loads of useful ideas tips and practical examples of how to respond to difficult behaviour
  • I like being able to talk to Caroline and other parents about issues and how to deal with difficult behaviour and also knowing everyone else is going through the same issues
  • I learnt about the needs of children at different ages how to respond appropriately to challenging behaviour 
  • I feel empowered after the session with words and phrases that we can use with the children to help manage their behaviour.
  • I found it very useful to know all behaviour is driven by underlying needs 
  • The flow of the session was brilliant
  • I enjoyed the way you gave us strategies to use and lots of examples
  • I found it very useful to try and understand how my child feels
  • I love the behaviour strategies and how to manage children of different ages 
  • I found the practical tips and all the interaction very empowering. 
  • I found the most useful thing was understanding strategies to help to understand emotions and also to understand the developmental tasks of children of different ages

Course Topic: Helping Children with Big Feelings

  • I found it very useful understanding what happens to the brain when children go into a stress response 
  • The importance of acknowledging feelings
  • All the activities to do with children were very useful I loved the interactive nature of the session 
  • I enjoyed the clear explanation of simple ways to support children with their feelings 
  • The information about children with autistic spectrum disorder and attention deficit disorder
  • It was fascinating learning about the 3 brains.
  • Caroline’s personality, warmth and expert knowledge.
  • I found it very useful learning how to deescalate a tantrum by validation and acknowledgement of emotions 
  • I found it a very sensitive and interesting look at the subject .
  • I was fascinated by Caroline’s responses 
  • I found understanding the neurophysiology very useful 
  • I enjoyed interacting with others and knowing other parents experience the same things as I do
  • I enjoyed the variable delivery between teaching and interactive work 
  • The real life examples made it easy to understand Understanding the neuroscience of emotions gave me more understanding of my children
  • I enjoyed having space to think and new ideas to consider

Course Topic: Helping children thrive in school

General feedback
  • Very interesting and informative
  • I can use these skills with adults as well
  • It gave an insight into my child’s anxiety
  • Lots of new ideas to think about 
  • It challenged my thinking and gave me more strategies to support my child 
  • Very helpful and thought provoking
  • The neuroscience of the brain was very useful to learn about so I can respond differently when my child is anxious, defiant or angry 
  • The things participating parents enjoyed most about the course
  • The parents enjoyed understanding about neuroscience 
  • They were fascinated by the different tasks of development of children at different ages 
  • The variety of teaching methods from lecturing to interactive work 

What Caroline enjoyed and took from providing the course
  • The excitement of seeing the parents really engaged and getting excited about trying new things out 
  • Seeing the parents getting really involved and sharing their experiences 
  • Seeing parents getting really enthusiastic about finding out about neuroscience
  • Getting positive feedback the following week about how much difference it had made to the participants’ parenting and hearing how they were enjoying their parenting so much more

The most important pointers participants took from the course 
  • The importance of ages and stages; when you are thinking about how to respond to your child’s behaviour 
  • The neuroscience of the brain
  • The importance of acknowledging feelings even if you can’t do anything to make them better 

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