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01
Week
Chat
Talking and listening to your child in a positive way every day
02
Week
Love
Getting the right balance of closeness and independence
03
Week
Behave
Bring calm to your family with rules and routines that work
04
Week
Care
Keep yourself and your family healthy and happy
05
Week
Discover
Help develop healthy learning habits with your child
06
Week
Together
Keep your family feeling happy, supported and loved
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Six-week programme

Parent Gym is a programme made up of six two-hour sessions, with ‘missions’ to complete between sessions. Each programme has up to twenty parents and one Parent Gym coach.

The Parent Gym programme has been designed by leading psychologists, drawing on parenting research. All sessions are designed to be highly interactive and participative.

- Parent gym
  For hosts
  Bring one of our coaches to your organisation - or train a member of your staff to deliver the programme in-house.
- Schools/centres
- Companies
- Local authorities
- Parent gym
  For volunteers
  Volunteer to support parents and improve their family lives. We are now recruiting in London, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and Brighton & Hove.
- Coaches
- Ambassadors
- Office volunteers

Parent Gym taught me that you don’t need to spend money to have fun with your kids. The first thing we do when we get in from school is sit around the dining room table and chat, so that we can all hear about each other’s day. I have also changed my attitude to cooking- before I wouldn’t have even let them in the kitchen while I was preparing food, but now I get them to help me chop vegetables and it has really helped with their attitude towards eating healthily.
Participant
Can parenting be taught? David Cameron believes new classes in child-rearing are the way to improve family life. Lena Corner, mother of two boys and with another on the way, joins a session to find out what she can learn
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The Independent, June 18, 2012
I really enjoyed the sessions and these changed a lot of what I did before….. I shouted, I didn’t listen to my children and there was a lot wrong in our house. My son refused to do his homework. Now I am less stressed, my son does his homework on time, my daughter plays with her brother which never happened before. I am so proud of what we have achieved and so happy.
Participant
The Parent Gym class I attended was great fun, but it also made me think a lot. As a parent, I know how hard it can be to know how best to support and nurture your child, and how lonely and isolating being a parent can be at times. That is why programmes like Parent Gym are so valuable, as not only do they impart evidence-based knowledge and techniques through the coaches, but they are also a great way of meeting, learning from, and sharing your own experience with other parents.
Sharon Hodgson
MP shadow minister for children

"The level of change for
parenting variables and
mental well-being is
impressive"

Our programme has been developed by leading psychologists to address six parenting priorities: communication, love, managing behaviour, health, learning and handling conflict.

Parent Gym has been independently evaluated by four universities since 2010.

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Contact

160 Kensington High Street, London W8 7RG UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7368 5698 Email: info@parentgym.com

Schools and children's centres - Want to host one of our volunteer coaches, or train a member of your staff to run Parent Gym in-house?

Parents - Want to introduce Parent Gym to your child’s school, or become a Parent Gym volunteer?

Companies - Want to host Parent Gym in your workplace?

For these and other enquiries email us at info@parentgym.com, or use the link below to access our contact form.

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