Tuning In To Teens™: Parenting Program

Emotionally Intelligent parenting

A brief reminder – commencing in week 3 of Term 2, we are offering a six-week parenting program, Tuning in to Teens to parents of students in Years 6 and 7. The program is aimed at helping you and your daughter manage the many emotional challenges of adolescence, and will focus on learning how to manage your own and your adolescent’s emotions in ways that help you to remain close and keep communicating.

Tuning in to Teens is based on the concept of Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is about using your emotions to guide you through the world. It is about being able to use your own knowledge of emotions to make decisions, to calm yourself down, to manage anger and conflict, to help you in your relationships with people, to know what is happening in social situations, and to assist you in many aspects of life where you or another person are involved.

When parents focus on helping their teen learn about emotions, the young person is more likely to have higher emotional intelligence. In this parenting program we will teach parents what to do to help these skills develop, and in doing so help their teen to manage adolescence better.

If you are interested in participating in this parenting program, please send an email to me before Friday 28 April. Dr. Melissa Saxton and I, both SCEGGS School Counsellors, will be facilitating the group, there will be six two-hour sessions, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm on the following nights:

Thursday 11 May
Thursday 18 May
Wednesday 24 May
Thursday 1 June
Thursday 8 June
Thursday 15 June

Please note: parents only attend these sessions. Group size will be limited. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, by email or phone at school.

Janet McEwen
School Counsellor