
It’s not our job to toughen up our children to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. L.R. Knost
Parenting & Attachment Models
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Circle of Security
Circle of Security Parenting promotes secure attachments between parents and children by understanding and responding to a child's emotional needs, fostering trust and building a sense of security for the child. The COS framework emphasises the dynamic interplay between a child's need for exploration with a return to a welcoming and secure base. Parents learn to provide a safe and supportive environment and regulate their own emotions by recognising their ‘shark music’ and using emotional repair. By practicing mindful observation, recognising behavioural miscues, promoting emotional awareness and practising self-care, parents strengthen the parent-child bond.
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Tuning Into Kids & Teens
Tuning Into Kids and Tuning Into Teens are evidence-based parenting programs designed to enhance emotional intelligence and improve parent-child relationships. Tuning Into Kids helps parents emotion coach their children by teaching them to understand and respond to their child's emotions effectively. Tuning Into Teens extends these principles by assisting parents in transforming their communication with teens and supporting them through potentially challenging adolescent years. Both programs foster empathy, build resilience, and strengthen family connections, by equipping parents with valuable skills to successfully navigate their child's changing emotional worlds.
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1-2-3 Magic
The 1-2-3 Magic Parenting Program is a simple yet effective approach to managing children's behaviour and promoting positive parent-child relationships. Based on the principles of behavioural discipline and brain development this program emphasises clear communication, consistency, and appropriate consequences. The program teaches parents how to avoid power struggles and foster cooperation from their children by setting clear expectations and calmly enforcing consistent consequences.
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Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation
The DMM hypothesizes that there is a need for maturing individuals to attribute meaning to complex, ambiguous, incomplete, and deceptive information in ways that promote self-protective behaviour. The particular organisation of self-protective behaviour that develops reflects the strategies that most effectively identify, prevent, and protect the self from the dangers of particular contexts while promoting exploration of other aspects of life. Because exposure to danger differs by age as well as by person, family, and cultural group, individuals’ patterns of attachment will reflect: individual developmental history, family organisation of self-protective strategies and cultural experience with persistent local dangers.
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Positive Parenting Program
The Positive Parenting Program is a regarded and evidence-based parenting approach developed in collaboration with the University of Queensland and designed to promote healthy child development and foster positive parent-child relationships. With its emphasis on positive reinforcement and proactive parenting techniques, Triple P empowers parents to address challenging behaviours and build an environment that supports their child's overall growth and resilience.
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Bringing Up Great Kids
The Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program is a comprehensive and nurturing approach to parenting that acknowledges the unique needs and perspectives of both parents and children, promoting empathy and understanding. It provides parents with valuable strategies to enhance communication, foster emotional intelligence, and support children's social and emotional development.