Parenting: The hardest job in the world! We all want what’s best for our children but we don’t always know what that is. We want you to know that you’re not alone and that help is available!
We provide courses for all stages of the parenting journey to help you learn about your child’s development, provide you with some new tools and support you to build a strong and secure relationship with your child, equipping them for the rest of their lives.
Scroll down to find out more about our courses and find out which ones are coming up soon
Upcoming Courses
We run our courses half-termly. To find out more about or other courses, see the dropdown menu above. If you don’t see the course that you are looking for below, please do send us an email.
Handling Anger in the Family
5 Sessions
Starts Thursday 17th October 2024 | 9.30-11.30am | Headlands Primary School, Haxby, York YO32 2YH
ALL families experience anger and conflict. It‘s normal! But how often do we talk about it?
Anger can be a real taboo issue in parenting conversations. We want to change this at Family Matters York! Anger is a natural emotion, but a lot of us don’t know where it comes from or what to do with it – and this can have a negative impact on family life.
This course seeks to support parents & carers in understanding their own anger, give tools to help their children understand theirs, and offers some strategies to handle anger in a positive way, helping to ‘lower the heat’ and improve all our family relationships!
Left To Their Own Devices Short Course
2 Sessions
Monday 11th & 18th Nov 2024 | 7.15 – 9pm | Online via Zoom
Our role as parents and carers is to help keep our children safe and healthy. This includes keeping them safe in the digital world!
These video and discussion based workshops address the parenting challenges and concerns around children and young peoples’ use of screentime, gaming and social media. It will provide a chance to chat, share ideas and pick up practical tips to help us guide our children safely through the digital world. The workshops explore topics such as the challenges of gaming; online risks and safety; and how to set boundaries. It will help equip you to support your child more confidently in a world where they are ‘digital natives’ and we are ‘digital visitors’.
Handling Anger in the Family (Online via Zoom)
4 Sessions
Starts Tuesday 19th November 2024 | 7.30 – 9.15pm | Online via Zoom
Anger can be a real taboo issue in parenting conversations. We want to change this at Family Matters York! Anger is a natural emotion, but a lot of us don’t know where it comes from or what to do with it – and this can have a real, negative impact on family life.
This course seeks to help parents understand their own anger, give tools to help their children understand theirs too, and offer some strategies to support parents & their children to handle anger in a positive way.
Other courses & events
These are the other courses & events that we will be running soon. Click on each one to find out more & register your interest.
Parenting in the early years
Parenting in the primary years
Parenting in the teenage years
Parenting children with Additional Needs
A Mind Of their Own
Parenting Event & Short Course
What to expect from a parenting course
Each of our course descriptions above will tell you how many sessions your course will last for. Most of our courses run for 4 or 5 weeks, and you’ll meet at the same time and place each week.
Each session will be hosted by two trained course facilitators, who will be ready to greet you as you arrive, and be available to answer any questions as they arise throughout the course. Anywhere between 6 and 12 parents will be attending the course alongside you.
The sessions will comprise a mixture of content; some upfront led, evidence-based idea sharing, group discussions & activities. You will be encouraged to contribute to the sessions, but only to a level with which you feel comfortable.
If you sign up to an online course, you will be sent a zoom link the week before your first session, and the sessions will last less than 2 hours, because we all know that zoom fatigue is real!!