Ship of Fools: Parenting courses

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :

Me and Mrs Tor have been approached by our vicar to see whether we'd be willing to lead a parenting course based on Holy Trinity Brompton's (this one here).

After we'd stopped laughing and realised he was serious, we said we'd consider it. We attended a similarish one many moons ago at a different church, and found it very helpful (and I wish I could remember what the source material was), so we're not going to dismiss the suggestion out of hand.

So, this is me considering it. Has anyone either done this, or led this? If the conversation moves to a more purgatorial tone, I'm happy for it to do so and the thread moved.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

I did the Care for the Family / Rob Parsons one many years ago. IIRC the course materials were quite good, but we had one anxious parent who kept bringing the discussion round to e.g. how to keep your child safe from the Satanic influence of Harry Potter.

Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :

Having read and enjoyed all of them, I'd recommend handing the boy over, heart and soul...

Can I ask what you found the most useful? Was it the course material itself, or the opportunity to talk openly and discuss problems? I'm thinking that whatever the material is, it just acts as an 'excuse' for the chat. Which is not a bad thing, in and of itself.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

It's well over a decade since I/we did the course, but I think I enjoyed the opportunity to chat. It was a morning course for mums, with a couple of evening sessions for both parents. It was run by a local church, which provided a creche for pre-schoolers at the morning session, and the evening session was a "pot luck" supper, so it was all quite convivial. It cost something like 50p for the morning sessions, just enough to cover the cost of the coffee and biscuits.

I think at the time I felt that a lot of the "problems" weren't problems I actually had - such as Harry Potter, which we read to our two as a bedtime story.

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