Parenting classes, courses and coaching

Whether it’s the morning rush to get ready for school, supervising homework, food and mealtimes, monitoring mobile phones, television, computers, and video games, stressful bedtimes, sibling rivalry, toddler tantrums or sullen teenagers, just a few sessions on a parenting course gives you the confidence to deal with your family without shouting and conflict.

Parenting sessions for individuals and couples take place by telephone throughout the United Kingdom, and internationally using skype. Having successfully run telephone courses for Parentlineplus for many years I appreciate the benefits of working in this way. Many areas have little provision for parenting education and working on the phone or by skype makes it accessible wherever you live in the world. Phone consultations mean you don’t have to expend time, money and energy arranging childcare and travelling to the session. Appointments are available when you want them - including coffee breaks or lunchtimes during working hours, as well as in the evening and at weekends. Free from visual distractions, you will concentrate more effectively, focus more closely and gain more insight from the session.

Parenting presentations and workshops can be arranged for your company or organisation during office hours as part of an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Parenting groups can be arranged in your church, school, office or even your own home.

Written evidence of attendance at parenting sessions can be provided, when appropriate, in support of court applications in child custody and access cases.

Contact me to discuss your course and classes requirements.

Parenting Coaching

Parent coaching will help you to work out what you really want for yourself and family, and how you can set about achieving it.

Parent coaching helps you to decide on your goals and how to make them happen by considering the options that are available to you, and how you can work towards them.

Parent coaching for individuals and couples is available worldwide by telephone or skype and is booked in blocks of four sessions each lasting 45 minutes.

Contact me to discuss your coaching requirements.
 

Independent
‘Talking with other parents and having Dorothy's calm, guiding presence enabled me to get out of a rut. I could see that I had got into a routine of doing too much for my children and then resenting it. What they really need is help to become independent. The classes helped me to see that more clearly.’
Angela, company director and mother of a teenaged daughter and two sons


Confident
‘The parenting course helped me to be more confident and to find a better way to communicate with my family, colleagues and the children I work with. I used to try and solve all their problems but this course has helped me to encourage them to solve their problems independently.’
Sara, mother of three

Helpful
‘The most helpful thing I learned was how to talk to my children. I used to shout at them and they were scared of me. They tell me things now because they aren’t afraid that I’ll shout at them. I use ‘I’ messages, which I learned on the course.’
Yasmin, school governor and mother of six

Fun
‘I’d never thought of doing a parenting course until a friend asked me to come along. Dorothy’s sense of humour and the way she drew everyone in and kept it flowing made it fun as well as being really helpful.’
David, solicitor and father of three