Understanding Kids

What is it?

Understanding Kids consists of 6 online information sessions for parents/carers of primary aged children. The sessions cover a variety of topics including; understanding development, emotion regulation, managing distress, positive parenting strategies and supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing. The sessions provide parents with evidence-based strategies, and information, to support their child to thrive.

If you are unable to attend all 6 sessions, you can sign up to individual sessions. However, if you are able to, we do recommend attending all 6. Information on what will be covered in each session can be found below.

You can sign up to Understanding Kids by clicking the “Book Now” button below.

What does the course involve?

These are run as online information sessions so you will require access to a computer and the internet. You will be sent the link to login after you sign up.
The sessions will be 1 hour 30 minutes on a set day/ time each week for 6 weeks. You can find out when the next ones start by clicking the “Book now” button below
The sessions are delivered by NHS professionals working within child psychology.
If you cannot attend all 6 sessions, you can attend individual ones instead.
This is not group therapy. You do not have to share personal experiences. Some parents however do find this helpful.

How will this help me?

These sessions will help you understand childhood development from birth and ways to promote and support children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
They will give you practical advice on how to support emotion regulation, manage distress and understand behaviour.
These information sessions will explore self care for parents, as we know parenting is not an easy job.

The Workbook

You will be sent a free workbook with information that goes alongside the sessions. This includes space for you to write down any notes/ strategies that we discuss. The workbook is for you to keep, and you do not have to share what you write in it with the group.

Course Content

Session 1

Session 1 – Understanding child development

The first session focuses on child development and will explore brain development as well as social and emotional development. We also introduce the topic of parental self care, which we will revisit throughout the group.

Session 2

Session 2 – Emotion regulation

Helping children to manage big feelings can be very difficult! This session focuses on how parents can support children to learn how to make sense of their feelings and communicate these effectively.

Session 3

Session 3 – Making sense of behaviour

This session looks into understanding behaviour as a form of communication in children, and ways parents/carers can manage difficult behaviour.

Session 4

Session 4 – Positive parenting strategies

This session looks at evidence based parenting strategies to help children thrive

Session 5

Session 5 – Supporting emotional wellbeing

We all have mental health. Promoting emotional wellbeing in children is the focus of this session, whilst also looking at ways to get further support if required.