Work with parents and carers

Growing Confidence has been working alongside parents and carers in Edinburgh to raise awareness and understanding of emotional well-being and resilience and how to better promote it in ourselves and our children. 

We have created a course called Raising Children With Confidence (RCWC). This 13 hour course aims to give parents and carers the chance to explore emotional well-being and how we can best promote it in ourselves and our children. Drawing on the latest findings and research it helps to explain why what you do makes a difference.

This course comprises of seven weekly sessions covering the following topics:

1. What is emotional health & wellbeing? (Introductory session only 1 hour)
2. Why Do Kids Do That? (Looking inside children’s brains)
3. What’s Love Got To Do With It? (How relationships shape child development)
4. Cotton Wool Kids? (Helping children cope with the ups and downs of life)
5. Staying Connected! (Listening differently to understand better)
6. What Makes Us, Us? (How thoughts and feelings influence behaviour)
7. Time Well Spent? (How to fit it all in, in the 21^st century)

Over 350 parents and carers have taken part so far. Evaluation from the first 240 to complete the course states:

Useful websites for parents and carers: