Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager
- 6 months to 19+ years
- English
- Modules
- Voiceover
- Course Modules
1.1 Welcome!
1.2 How do you currently feel about parenting?
1.3 How parenting makes you feel
1.4 How parenting makes you feel on a bad day
1.5 Finding out more
1.6 Developing your relationship with your child
2.1 How the brain grows
2.2 Video: Experiences build brain architecture
2.3 The developing brain: What it all means
2.4 The importance of early brain development
2.5 Video: Serve and return interaction shapes brain circuitry
2.6 The impact of high levels of stress
2.7 Children's experiences and the brain
2.8 Brain development through childhood
2.9 Teenage brain development
2.10 A recap
2.11 Time to have a go!
3.1 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
3.2 Behaviour is communication!
3.3 How we know we're happy
3.4 How we know we're sad
3.5 How we know we're tired
3.6 How we know we're anxious
3.7 Understanding when your child feels happy
3.8 Understanding when your child feels sad
3.9 Understanding when your child feels tired
3.10 Understanding when your child feels anxious
3.11 Your child's feelings
4.1 Reading behaviours
4.2 Other parents' examples
4.3 Reading your child's behaviour in these situations
4.4 Look, think, say!
4.5 How our behaviour affects our children
4.6 The challenge of reading behaviours
4.7 Feelings, behaviour and developmental age
4.8 The three key questions
4.9 A recap
4.10 Time to have a go!
5.1 The story so far...
5.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
5.3 Tuning into what your child needs
5.4 A reminder about brain development
5.5 Reflecting on your child's development
5.6 Helping your child learn new skills: switching shoes
5.7 What it takes to learn new skills
5.8 Switching shoes
5.9 Understanding developmental stages
5.10 A recap
5.11 Time to have a go!
6.1 Developmental stages
6.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
6.3 Feeling worse
6.4 Feeling better
6.5 Containment: the basics
6.6 Containment: learning more
6.7 What can happen when we have our own worries
6.8 Making space in your mind
6.9 How feelings are communicated
6.10 The feelings
6.11 Doing things differently
6.12 Thinking about how we say things
6.13 Developing a containing relationship
6.14 Time to have a go!
7.1 Reflections so far
7.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
7.3 Mid-point recap
7.4 Approaches to parenting
7.5 What you might like to pass on to your children
7.6 Styles of parenting
7.7 Different kinds of parenting
7.8 Authoritative parenting: Getting the balance right
7.9 Time to have a go!
8.1 Reflections
8.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
8.3 Learning by playing
8.4 How play can benefit relationships
8.5 Different ways of playing
8.6 Another look at the play sequences
8.7 The wider benefits of play
8.8 A recap
8.9 Time to have a go! Part 1
8.10 Time to have a go! Part 2
9.1 Reflections
9.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
9.3 Communication between adults
9.4 Understanding the Dance of Reciprocity
9.5 The 7 steps of the Dance
9.6 Understanding babies' actions
9.7 Noticing the Dance with your children
9.8 The Dance
9.9 Self-regulation and the Dance
9.10 The look-away
9.11 A recap
9.12 Time to have a go!
10.1 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
10.2 Why do we need to sleep?
10.3 Sleep
10.4 Separating from a child
10.5 Overcoming separation difficulties
10.6 Common causes of sleep disturbance
10.7 What helps us to get to sleep
10.8 Sleeping difficulties
10.9 Having a routine to go to sleep
10.10 Recap
10.11 Time to have a go!
11.1 Reflections and what's coming up
11.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
11.3 Anger and independence
11.4 Coping with anger
11.5 Seeing anger in a different way
11.6 When can anger be helpful?
11.7 What are the kinds of things that might make a child feel angry?
11.8 How to help a child who feels angry Part 1
11.9 How to help a child who feels angry Part 2
11.10 Learning emotional containment
11.11 Helping your child learn to manage their anger
11.12 Anger and self-regulation
11.13 Parent child interaction examples
11.14 Alternative approaches you could take
11.15 The marshmallow test
11.16 Recap
11.17 Time to have a go!
12.1 Reflections and what's coming up
12.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
12.3 The Dance of Reciprocity: Recap
12.4 How to recover when things go wrong: rupture and repair
12.5 Example of a rupture
12.6 How the situation could be improved: A repair
12.7 Repairing the situation
12.8 Repairing relationships
12.9 What happens after a disagreement
12.10 The importance of apologising
12.11 Helping your child learn rupture and repair
12.12 Time to have a go!
13.1 Reflections and what's next
13.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
13.3 What have you managed to change?
13.4 Quiz Time
13.5 Doing things differently
13.6 Recap of Resources
13.7 Further resources
13.8 Post-course questionnaire
13.9 Solihull acknowledgements
13.10 The end of this course: continuing your journey
About this course
No matter your family setup, the important relationships in your child’s life help shape their emotional health and wellbeing. This transformative course offers a reflective space to think about your child’s development, their behaviour and how they are communicating.
Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager is for all parents, grandparents and carers of children aged between six months to 19 years. The resources are tailored so that whatever their age, you can use the ideas and techniques to help better understand your child, their emotions and how to nurture them.
Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager
Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager has been developed by a team of Clinical Psychologists, Child Psychotherapists, Health Visitors, Child and Family Practitioners and, importantly, parents. Everything you will follow and learn in the course has been informed by experience and is designed to be practical; to help you and your family in your everyday interactions. You’ll also learn about the foundations of wellbeing and mental health, as well as how our brains work at different times in our lives and what this means for the way we think and express ourselves in childhood and as adults.
The course follows 13 Modules, each taking around 15 minutes and broken up into manageable chunks called Units.
The first few Modules cover some ways of thinking and concepts that will help shape the approaches and ideas around the later sections, so this means it needs to be followed in order, one Module at a time. You don’t need to do it all in one go, and our advice is to take breaks and spread out your learning.
Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager is designed for all parents in any situation, but you might find that perhaps you begin to feel you would benefit from more personalised or specialist support, and so there are some additional resources signposted throughout to guide you.
We know that there are many different families, with different backgrounds, shapes and sizes. We have tried to consider some of the different needs of families in this course, but it hasn’t been possible to account for all backgrounds. If your personal situation isn’t reflected, we still hope that you find something helpful in the main ideas about developing close, connected relationships between parents and children and welcome your feedback to improve its relevance.