Communication Skills for Parents and Teachers

Communicating with Kids is a programme of simple communication principles and skills for parents and teachers

The programme focuses on the language, attitude and approach we use every day with children. Being aware of the messages we are sending automatically through our communication, we have less need to implement separate strategies for managing behaviour.

The most effective behaviour management strategy is simply the way we talk and listen to children on a day-to-day basis

With children, we are in a human relationship whilst at the same time being in a position of clear adult authority. This is what makes the adult-child relationship unique.  The principles of the programme are based on these two aspects of the relationship working together. Learning how to relate on a truly human level and at the same time be confident and clear in our authority transforms relationships with children.

We may find that children rarely need strategies at all, and are often quite capable of managing their own behaviour

If you are a parent or a teacher, take a look at the site to find out more, see what courses are on offer, and join the blog to post your own comments.

‘I was deeply shocked that a handful of simply-phrased approaches and actions can have such a profound effect. I went in deeply sceptical of the process. I leave knowing it works and knowing it through my actions’                                                                            Jared, parent

‘This workshop has helped our whole school to reflect on our habits of communication in ways that mean we now have absolutely no need for the kinds of punishments and rewards that many of us overly rely on’                                                                                Elizabeth Overton,  Head teacher