Parenting Courses - Dorset

Dorset Council run a range of parenting courses for parents of children aged 0 to 16 years old.

They have courses about:

• young children
• teenagers
• children with challenging behaviour
• teenagers with aggressive or abusive behaviour

Incredible Babies

For parents with babies from birth to crawling.

The Parents and Babies Program is delivered over 8 weeks in one-hour sessions with trained facilitators. The facilitators help you and your baby with topics that will support attachment and bonding. 

Incredible Years

The Incredible Years Parenting Programme is an evidence-based programme (this means it's based on research) devised by Caroline Webster-Stratton, a child psychologist. This course can help you to:

• strengthen your parenting skills
• build healthy relationships with your child
• reduce inappropriate behaviours

This is a free programme and aimed at parents of children aged between 3 and 12 years old.

Living with Teenagers

Living with teenagers is a 7 week evidence-based programme. This programme is designed to help parents and carers of teenagers aged 11 to 16 years who are experiencing behaviour and communication difficulties.

The programme covers:

• understanding how behaviour is learnt
• increase understanding of 'normal' behaviour and typical developmental stages
• increasing wanted behaviour and decreasing unwanted behaviour
• types of sanctions
• looking after yourself
• empowering parents
• boosting self-confidence
• sharing difficulties with other parents to work together to solve problems

Contact your locality team for information about dates and venues.