Tuning In To Teens™: Parenting Program
Emotionally Intelligent parenting – Term 2 (For parents of students in Years 6, 7 and 8)
We are inviting you to join a parenting program that aims to help you and your child manage the many emotional challenges of adolescence. Tuning in to Teens® is a six-week program, run one evening a week for two hours. The program will teach you how to manage your own and your adolescent’s emotions in ways that help you to remain close and keep communicating. By learning these skills, you are less likely to have as much conflict within your family and your teen is more likely to talk to you about the challenging issues they face. These are factors that have been found to reduce the risk of mental health and emotional problems.
What is 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 understand what is happening in social situations, and to assist you in any aspects of life that involves you and another person.
Why is Emotional Intelligence important?
Research has shown that young people with greater emotional intelligence:
- are more aware, assertive and strong in situations of peer pressure
- have greater success with making friends and are more able to manage conflict with peers
- are more able to cope when upset or angry
- have fewer mental health and emotional difficulties
- have more stable and satisfying relationships as adults
- have greater career success – Emotional Intelligence may be a better predictor of academic and career success than IQ!
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 we expect teens to manage adolescence better.
Here is some feedback received from SCEGGS parents who have previously attended Tuning in to Teens:
I highly recommend this program to anyone with teens as you never know what is around the corner, and having a toolkit available to use is most helpful.
It has given (us) the opportunity to be more aligned in our parenting styles and how we deal with certain situations.
Practical examples/strategies, listening to others experiences (was helpful).
Family is calmer.
The practice we got in the class really helped.
Would you like to find out more?
This is a great opportunity to learn some skills to assist your relationship with your daughter, and also to connect with other parents in a relaxed and comfortable setting.
The program will run each Wednesday for six weeks, for two hours each session, starting on Wednesday 14 May and finishing on 18 June. It will be held at school between 5pm– 7pm.
If you are interested in participating in this parenting program, or have any questions please email or call one of us before Wednesday 30 April.
Janet McEwen and Lauren Miles
School Counsellors
