As parents, it can be really difficult to sift through all the advice that is out there. Everyone, from the expert on Youtube to the childless neighbour across the road, has an opinion on how we should parent and these days mother-guilt starts way before a child is even born.
So, you can imagine my joy at finding The Ultimate Parenting Course. Now, before I say anything else, I will say that I have become an affiliate of this course. Here’s why. Anybody who knows me, knows that I am quite passionate about parenting and will quickly tell you when I think a parenting resource is unhelpful, which many of them are.
What I love about this course, other than the incredible content and the calibre of the contributors is that it is easy. There are no huge books filled with lots of boring, hard to understand or flowery text. Simply download the videos and make notes in the workbook which accompanies each video so you can easily retain and apply the wisdom from each session. The course runs over four weeks and you can view each video in your own time, when it suits you, from the comfort of your own home.
Content
There are eight essential themes in the Ultimate Parenting Course:
- Identity
- Co-parenting
- Attachment
- Individuation
- sleep
- Feeding your children
- Conflit and
- Community
Description from the Ultimate Parenting Course website: “Each theme contains a video (about 30 minutes each, so not too long) with a compilation of interviews from parenting experts answering questions pertaining to the theme, giving you solutions and a context for the challenges you face. The Ultimate Parenting Course Handbook contains written contributions from additional experts, plus bullet points and action exercises based on the interviews to help you integrate the material.”
The content in this course is in alignment with current research on the harmful effects of outdated parenting solutions often talked about in the mainstream media. After working with this course you will feel validated and empowered to parent in a way that resonates with you.
Having learned the hard way about why it’s important to parent with connection and empathy, I highly recommend this book as a resource for all soon-to-be and new parents as well as parents who have been on the journey for a while and need some encouragement and new insights to guide their parenting. Find out more about this fabulous resource here!
