2/11/2024 0 Comments Time out for kids meaning![]() ![]() In the full course you get to learn about the Circle of Security graphic and how to use it to make sense of your children’s behaviour. Without going into too much detail about the Circle of Security (which you will learn if you partake in the full workshop) let’s just say that the important thing to remember is that it’s a system that describes the relationship between caregivers and their children. Thus we play an essential role in our children’s lives. Our children depend on us to meet a fundamental need, the need to be in relationship with caring adults. The more secure your child is, the more she or he will be able to enjoy you, have higher self esteem and the confidence to turn to you in times of trouble both now and in the future. Our job as parents is to give our children a sense of security. Parenting is a hard job and it can sometimes feel like an emotional rollercoaster, especially because children don’t come with an instruction manual! You might sometimes want to ask your children “what do you want from me?” But in actual fact our children ARE the instruction manual. The first thing you need to know about the Circle of Security Parenting Program is that it is a relationship-based parenting approach. Babies naturally seek security and caregivers want to provide security. ![]() This need for secure relationships is built in to our most important interactions throughout every hour of every day. This program is based upon five decades of research about how security is supported and not supported. The Circle of Security Parenting Program was developed by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell. I’m going to run you through the basic concepts and then there will be quite a bit of time for us to process these new concepts and discuss how they can be used to understand tantrums and your children’s behaviour. We will then use these concepts to understand tantrums and other difficult behaviour and a new way of dealing with problem behaviour will be proposed. We’re going to learn very briefly some of the main concepts that are taught in the workshop without going into too much detail. So just to give you an overview of the talk today, I’m going to start by introducing the Circle of Security. I do plan to run the full Circle of Security workshops this year so if you like what you hear today then please come and find me at the end of the session and I will take down your details so as to get hold of you with information about upcoming workshops and talks. I moved to Berlin in July 2014 and have been working as a private pay clinical psychologist. Today I’m going to highlight some of the ideas I teach during the Circle of Security workshops that I am trained to provide. I am a licensed Babies in Mind Practitioner and I am a certified Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator. After graduating, however, I selected to participate in two separate training workshops to improve my skills with regards to parent education paying particular attention to the role of facilitating bonding between parents and infants/toddlers. In South Africa we get a general training and are not required to specialise. I am a qualified clinical psychologist from South Africa. Today I am going to be talking to you about the wonderful world of toddlers and tantrums but before I begin, let me tell you a little bit about myself and how I’ve come to be interested in working with parents of infants. The following information comes directly from the Circle of Security (COS) intervention, which I am licensed to teach so please be careful not to distribute any of this information without giving credit to the creators of COS. We had a fairly large group of parents and it was a really great experience to finally get a chance to share my skills with the parenting community in Berlin.īut I know that some of you, especially those not in Berlin, might be feeling a little left out and would also like to hear about how to deal with tantruming toddlers so I thought I would share the talk with you and you are welcome to share it with other parents who you think could benefit. Well, it was on Friday and I think it went really well. So, remember last week I told you I was going to do a talk.
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