Family

Centre for Learning offers the following

Learning for Life and Love - Family Relationships courses:

Toolbox - Early Years
Toolbox - Middle Years
Toolbox - Teen Years
Family Wellness - Survival Skills for Healthy Families
Finding Fun in Parenting
Love Tanks and ABCs
Starting School - Getting your child off to a great start
Making the Most of Life with 5 - 12 Year Olds

Toolbox - Early Years

Want to be a great parent and have heaps of fun with your kids? Love to create a terrific family team and be armed with practical solutions for the tricky bits? Toolbox is a series of relaxed informal parenting sessions run over 5 or 6 weeks. The focus is on making parenting a really positive experience.

This course covers different parent types, developmental stages of children, tools for engaging cooperation, discipline, making memories and being the parent your child needs.

Involves 6 sessions - Available for groups or agencies
Dates: Check Course Calendar
Cost: can be negotiated
Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Te: 08 8331 3111

Toolbox-Middle Years

This course uses the same philosophy as the course above but provides sessions for parents of children aged 5-12 years. Itcovers building character and self esteem, emotional intelligence, discipline,trust and increasing responsibility, creating traditions and memories, capitalising on the "tween-age" years.

Involves 6 sessions - Available for group or agency bookings

Dates: Please Check the Course Calendar
Time: Morning & Evening Session
Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Tel: 088331 3111

Toolbox - Teen Years

Six sessions covering atmosphere, boundaries, communication, discipline, self esteem and future pathways.Learn that although these years may be challenging they can actually be some of the best years of your life-and theirs!

"TRAINING TO INSPIRE, EQUIP AND HELP PARENTS ENJOY THEIR KIDS!"

Involves 6 sessions - Available for group or agency bookings - Ideal for schools

Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Tel: 08 8331 3111

Family Wellness-Survival Skills for Healthy Families

This is a 5 or 6 week course designed by Family Wellness Australia. It is a program that has been designed for parents of school aged children and has been running for over 25 years. The sessions teach patterns and skills that support healthy family life.

This courseaims tostrengthen, support and empower your family life. It includessteps to resolve conflict, ways to encourage and support one another, alternatives to physical punishment, how to build self esteem and confidence and effective communication skills.

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Cost: negotiable for groups and agencies
Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Tel: 08 8331 3111

Finding Fun in Parenting

A single workshop or several session for parents, grandparents and carers. In this course your group will have fun discovering the different love languages in your family, exploring ways of makingmemories that last without costing a mint and learning how to create shifting boundaries as your kids grow older.

Other Sessions Bookable

Dates: Please Check the Course Calendar
Cost: can be negotiated
Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Tel: 08 8331 3111

Love Tanks and ABCs

Are you looking for a fresh look at your parenting? Would you like some encouragement for the most important job in the world - being a parent.

Love Tanks and ABCs is an interactive Parent Encouragement course or session. In a fun group setting we cover the five love languages and how to us them in your home and other relationshipsand ABCs-ways of changing the atmosphere in your home, setting boundaries and communicating in a way that your children take notice.

Can be tailored to one or moresessions and adapted for a wide range of ages

Available for group or agency bookings - Suitable for schools and congregations

Enquiries: magill@lccare.org.au or Tel 8331 3111

Starting School - Getting your child off to a great start

For parents of children, who will be starting school within the next twelve months. A single session with an option of a follow up once the child has started school.

Suitable for schools and kindergartens

Through doing this course you will learn about:

The role of parents in a child's learning journey
Setting your child up for learning (sleep and breakfast)
Tips for getting to school on time
In the Lunch box
Practical ways of preparing your child for school
Emotionally preparing your child and yourself for this transition

Making the Most of Life with 5-12 Year Olds

A half day course or a number of week nights. A session for parents, grandparents and carers. A variety of topics to choose from e.g. understanding children as they grow, working out the best ways of managing behaviour, talking with your child and sibling rivalry.

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This is a popular course for schools and groups that introduces parenting issues

Cost: can be negotiated