Tuning Into Kids™
Tuning into Kids™ is a FREE parenting programme for parents of children aged 3-10 years old. It aims to increase parent-child connection by improving emotional communication within the family.
Benefits for parents
Parents develop skills to be better at talking with, and understanding, their child and their developmental needs.
Helps to prevent and reduce behaviour problems in their child.
Learns how to recognise their child’s emotions and approach them before it becomes overwhelming.
Creates a more harmonious household.
Creates trust between the child and parent and can lead to the child communicating better with their parents.
Parents learn how to regulate and understand their own emotions.
Helps parents to teach their children to understand, regulate and manage their emotions.
Benefits for children (and the wider community and schools they attend)
Can better manage their behaviour and respond in socially appropriate ways.
Can be more confident in times of peer pressure or conflict with their peers.
Have greater success with making friends.
Helps children to become more resilient.
Learn emotional intelligence – to be able to regulate when emotionally heightened – and to be able to talk about their feelings.
A better academic success rate due to emotional stability and improved mental health.
Have greater career success.
Programme structure
Tuning into Kids is delivered over a 6 week period – one session per week, of 2 to 3 hours each. It is delivered to a group of up to 15 parents. Each attendee receives a manual with resources to follow and revisit at later times.
During the programme there will be a range of group discussion, videos to view and practices within the group. As the facilitators, we are available for guidance between sessions as well as during.
“The tools that were shared by the teachers were very helpful, and also, having a supportive group to learn with made it easy to communicate our experiences.”
— R. Ruddell