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Week

Chat

Talking and listening to your child in a positive way every day
02

Week

Love

Getting the right balance of closeness and independence
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Week

Behave

Bring calm to your family with rules and routines that work
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Week

Care

Keep yourself and your family healthy and happy
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Week

Discover

Help develop healthy learning habits with your child
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Week

Together

Keep your family feeling happy, supported and loved
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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.

- Parent gym
  
  For hosts
  
  Bring one of our coaches to your organisation - or train a member of your staff to deliver the programme in-house.
- Schools/centres
- Companies
- Local authorities
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  For volunteers
  
  Volunteer to support parents and improve their family lives. We are now recruiting in London, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and Brighton & Hove.
- Coaches
- Ambassadors
- Office volunteers

We have now run nine Parent Gym programmes. The impact of the course can be seen with improved behaviour of the children in school. We hope to continue to work with Parent Gym for a very long time.

Deputy Head
Woodmansterne Primary School
My children are 6 and 8 so I have also had some problems with sibling rivalry, but Parent Gym has helped me to make a discipline system, so that they always know what will happen when they fight. I now also make sure that I spend a specific amount of alone time with each child, so that they both feel important and it has really helped to stop with their fighting and make the house a much calmer place.

Ulanda
St Marks Primary Islington
Expert tips to motivate the kids

In Claire Katzenellenbogen's opinion, as the director of Parent Gym, incentivising chores non-financially is the way to encourage children to help. "We shouldn't pay our children to do things they should be doing."

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Family Values, February 2019
We have been running Parent Gym at Kensington for a number of years now. The programme has transformed the lives of countless families. The approach is clear and well-structured. Training for my staff has been excellent. We have found it to have greater impact than ... other programmes aimed at supporting parents. If you are looking to target hard-to-reach parents and want to make a difference for them and their children, this approach is definitely worth investigating further.

Click here to read a Teach Primary article which mentions the impact of Parent Gym on the school

Headteacher
Kensington Primary School

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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