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Chat

How to communicate more effectively
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Love

How to balance warmth and discipline
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Behave

How to be consistent with setting boundaries
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Care

How to raise healthy children
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Discover

How to encourage learning
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Together

How to build a solid family support network
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Six-week programme

Parent Gym is a programme made up of six two-hour sessions, with ‘missions’ to complete between sessions. Each programme has up to twenty parents and one Parent Gym coach.

The Parent Gym programme has been designed by leading psychologists, drawing on parenting research. All sessions are designed to be highly interactive and participative.

The programme allows parents the fantastic chance to make connections and establish a bonding network, something which I feel no other programme would allow.

Emma Shapero
Do we need parenting classes?
Given that most parents sit through hours of antenatal lessons, it seems crazy that the classes stop at birth, and that there's nothing to help with the much bigger task of bringing the child up.
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The Guardian, March 31, 2012
Parent Gym taught me that you don’t need to spend money to have fun with your kids. The first thing we do when we get in from school is sit around the dining room table and chat, so that we can all hear about each other’s day. I have also changed my attitude to cooking- before I wouldn’t have even let them in the kitchen while I was preparing food, but now I get them to help me chop vegetables and it has really helped with their attitude towards eating healthily.

Participant
Kensington Primary has moved from RI to outstanding in less than three years but is now setting its sights even higher

The school works with some of its most vulnerable families to help them develop their parenting skills via the national Parent Gym initiative. This is a series of six two-hour workshops delivered by a trained member of staff. The sessions cover things like how to communicate, balancing warmth and discipline and how to encourage learning.

“The feedback we get is that it can be transformative. Some parents, and their children as a result, have had their lives turned round.”

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Teach Primary magazine, October 20, 2017

Contact

160 Kensington High Street, London W8 7RG UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7368 5698 Email: info@parentgym.com

Schools and children's centres - Want to host one of our volunteer coaches, or train a member of your staff to run Parent Gym in-house?

Parents - Want to introduce Parent Gym to your child’s school, or become a Parent Gym volunteer?

Companies - Want to host Parent Gym in your workplace?

For these and other enquiries email us at info@parentgym.com, or use the link below to access our contact form.

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