Course details

Our Parenting Smart course consists of six modules and mirrors the face-to-face training we give parents and carers in our partner primary schools. It's designed for parents and carers of 4-11 year olds in your local area, who will be able to access the programme at a time that suits them and from any device.

By signing up to our course, parents and carers will have:

• online support from our Place2Be Family Practitioners to join discussions and aid online learning
• a safe learning community offering the opportunity to learn from other parents and carers’ experiences.

Modules

The course is divided into six modules, each focusing on a specific parenting skill. These skills will help parents and carers to improve their relationships with their children and respond effectively to challenging behaviours. Each module is split into convenient 15-minute sections.

1. Connecting: How to build a strong bond with your child.
2. Praise and Reward: How to encourage desired behaviours.
3. Selective Ignoring: How to discourage unwanted behaviours.
4. Clear Instructions: How to ensure your child understands what is expected of them.
5. Boundaries and Consequences: How to set limits in advance in an effective way.
6. Time Out to calm down: How to manage extreme behaviours.

Background

We worked closely with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to create this convenient online course on Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT). PIPT is a training intervention developed by experts at the Trust to promote positive child/parent relationships. The intervention has proven especially effective with children between three and eight years old.

What do you get?

By signing up, you will be able to provide parents and carers in your local area with our Parenting Smart - Online Course.

We'll give you everything you need to get set up, including:

• unlimited licences
• an evaluation
• a safeguarding plan
• a registration page
• registration co-ordination
• a digital promotion toolkit.

Meet our experts

Here is the brilliant team that has developed our parenting course. Once you join the programme, you will be introduced to your course facilitator, one of Place2Be’s Family Practitioners.

Meet our Parenting Smart team

What do other people say?

Read what others have to say about the course and find out how this course can help parents and carers in your local area.

"I feel much more connected with my children and make sure that I spend at least a bit of time playing or just listening to them. I am proud of myself that I use more often a calm voice than before."

"I’ve enjoyed this course, I’ve got a lot out of it. Even though I thought I was doing everything right, I have still taken stuff away to modify my approach. It’s really good!"

"This course gave me time to step back and think. It was just the right format, not too much information or too little, and tackled the important parts head-on."