Primary Years
4-11 years
2

Understanding Your Child: Toddler to Teenager

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Overview

No matter your family setup, the important relationships in your child’s life help shape their emotional health and wellbeing.

This transformative course offers a reflective space to think about your child’s development, their behaviour and how they are communicating.

Everything you will follow and learn in the course has been informed by experience and is designed to be practical; to help you and your family in your everyday interactions.

You’ll also learn about the foundations of wellbeing & mental health, how our brains work at different times in our lives and what this means for the way we think and express ourselves in childhood and as adults.

Whatever your child’s age, you can use the ideas and techniques to help better understand your child, their emotions and how to nurture them.

Topics covered:

  • child development
  • how the brain develops
  • understanding how your child is feeling
  • reading behaviours
  • tuning into what your child needs
  • processing feelings
  • different styles of parenting
  • having fun together
  • rhythm of interaction
  • why is sleep important?
  • self-regulation and anger
  • communication and tuning in
  • looking back and looking forward

Duration

At your own pace - 13 Modules, each taking around 15 minutes and broken up into manageable units

Delivery

Self-guided online courses; different languages available

Who Is It For?

All parents/caregivers of children aged 6 months to 19 years

How to Book

Sign up at Free wellbeing online courses in Enfield – inourplace

Access code – PYMMES

Contact Info

If you have any query, please email ParentingProgrammes@enfield.gov.uk

Start for Life

0-2 years
0
Expectant couple

Early Years

1-5 years
1
Toddler

Primary Years

4-11 years
2
Primary years

Tweens & Teens

10-16 years
3
Tweens and teens