Cool Mum Super Dad Consultancy is happy to present to you the list of parenting/marriage workshop topics we are offering for 2019. Contact us for more details.
Methodologies (subject to duration of programme):
- Case studies
- Interactive presentation
- Group discussions
- Video presentations
Programme Title 1 : Instilling a Love for E.STREAM* in Your Child
Programme Overview
Learning should be fun and meaningful to every child. Your child has the potential to excel, and is more likely to become outstanding if learning is made relevant to him or her. A child who is inspired will be motivated and will try to be the best he can be.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Gain insights on the importance of genuine interest towards learning and excellence
- Reduce parental anxiety towards children’s academic performance
- Gain long-term view of your child’s career options
Programme Content
- Discover your child’s interest and talents
- Understand the concept of E.STREAM*
- Today a reader, tomorrow a leader: the reading habit and your child’s brain
- Critical Success Factors (CSF) & challenges in realising your child’s career and true potential
*E.STREAM = Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Religion/Ethics, Art, Engineering & Mathematics
Programme Title 2 : Nurturing Your Child’s Creativity
Programme Overview
Creativity is an important part of child development, a critical success factor for children to succeed in life. Children are biologically designed to be curious. Yet, creativity is generally not taught in school, parents and educators might unwittingly dampen a child’s creativity if they have a limited understanding of what creativity is about.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Understand the value of creativity in the current generation
- Gain insights on the holistic nature of creativity
- Appreciate your child’s innate creativity; learn how to nurture it
Programme Content
- Identify, understand and appreciate your child’s creativity
- Why creativity matters in the digital era
- The best time to nurture creativity in children
- Tips on how to raise a creative child
Programme Title 3 : Discipline Dilemma
Programme Overview
Discipline teaches children to be responsible and accountable for their actions and decisions. With effective discipline, children are set to be less impulsive, and make wiser decisions in their life.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Raise children who are respectful towards parents
- With better self-discipline, children learn self-control and patience
- Discipline helps your child stay healthy and focused
Programme Content
- Understand why children misbehave
- Learn effective ways of discipline
- Nurture a better parent-child relationship through effective discipline techniques
Programme Title 4 : Raising Teenagers
Programme Overview
Adolescence is a period of major changes for your child and can be a tough time for both parents and children. Adolescence opens a window of opportunity for you to guide your child to develop better attitudes and behaviours, if you know how.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Be more confident in raising your teenager
- Know the changes that your child goes through in adolescence
- Understand what works and what doesn’t
Programme Content
- Why adolescence can be challenging
- What you need to watch out for during your child’s teenage years
- Common issues and possible solutions
Programme Title 5 : Sibling Rivalry versus Sibling Harmony
Programme Overview
Your children deserve to have a positive long term relationship with one another. The quality of sibling relationship not only impacts your children when they are young; they have far-reaching consequences on your children’s happiness and well-being.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Appreciate how sibling relationships are part of the building blocks of family structure
- Gain an overview of short term and long term effects of positive and negative sibling relationships
- Gain insights on the factors that influence sibling relationships
Programme Content
- Why sibling relationships matter in the family dynamics
- How parental attitudes and behaviours shape the sibling experience
- Tips to minimize sibling rivalry and maximize sibling harmony
Programme Title 6 : Teach Kids Problem-Solving : The 6 Thinking Hats Technique
Programme Overview
A better decision-making technique and skills can reduce conflict and prepare children to make wiser decisions in the long run. With a better technique and more effective skills, both parents and children can think beyond the obvious, make thorough evaluations and look for alternative solutions.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Gain a better, more effective technique of resolving tough situations in the family
- Remove family conflict by creating an objective approach to view problems from a fresh perspective
- Make family meetings more productive
- With the 6 Thinking Hats, parents and children have a common platform to make objective decisions together
Programme Content
- Gain insights on how the 6 Thinking Hats can polish your ability to lead your child, and your child’s leadership capability
- If your child tends to make hasty decisions, then he or she needs to be trained with a technique to pause and think, before making better, informed decisions
- Apply The 6 Thinking Hats Technique as a time-tested decision making tool to help the family make informed, balanced, well-thought decisions
- Introduce innovative, creative and productive thinking in your family
Programme Title 7 :The Kindness Miracle
Programme Overview
You do not have to be perfect to love and be loved perfectly. Falling in love is a mystery, but growing love isn’t. The magic of love can stay forever if you know what to do to grow it with kindness. Growing love is much like growing a tree. Just like water, earth and sunlight make a plant blossom, kind words and actions make your marriage strong and successful.
Objectives / Key Benefits
- Discover why kindness is king for both men and women
- Strategies to survive the different stages of marriage
- Ways to get better at resolving conflicts
Programme Content
- Insights from contemporary research and traditions
- The five stages of marriage
- How to enhance your marital happiness no matter how long you have been married
