emotions – Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Triple P

WHAT IS TRIPLE P?

Triple P is a parenting programme, but it doesn’t tell you how to be a parent. It’s more like a toolbox of ideas. You choose the strategies you need. You choose the way you want to use them. It’s all about making Triple P work for you.

WHAT DOES TRIPLE P DO?

The three Ps in ‘Triple P’ stand for ‘Positive Parenting Program’ which means your family life is going to be much more enjoyable.

Triple P helps you:

Raise happy, confident children
Manage misbehaviour so everyone in the family enjoys life more
Set rules and routines that everyone respects and follows
Encourage behaviour you like
Take care of yourself as a parent
Feel confident you’re doing the right thing

Visit the official Triple P website for more information or speak to our in-house Triple P facilitator.

COLQUHOUN PARK TRIPLE P FACILITATOR

Rachael Donaghy is a fully qualified Triple P Facilitator and one of our Family Champions here at Colquhoun Park EYC.

Rachael has had lots of experience working with families over the years, and is available to offer advice and discuss strategies with parents and carers in developing and supporting our little people to grow into the best possible versions of themselves.

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

WORRY

The children in Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre have recently been given a secret magic gift…. this magic gift gives them to power to make any worries they may have DISAPPEAR!!

The secret…. Talk to someone!

When we talk to someone about what is worrying us our worries get smaller and smaller until eventually they disappear.

Why not watch this RUBY FINDS A WORRY video so you can share in our magic too!

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

Promoting Positive Thinking Strategies – PATHS

What is PATHS?

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies is a Health and Wellbeing
programme. It aims to help children to be aware of their feelings, to be able
to talk about them and to find good ways of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings. It also teaches the children problem solving skills and helps them to
develop good relationships with their peers.
Each week the children will have a circle time where they will have the
opportunity to learn about and discuss their feelings, with the help of
Twiggle and his puppet friends.

As part of this time the children are going to be learning about
compliments. Each week a child will be chosen to be Twiggle’s special helper
and will receive compliments from the rest of the children that will be
written up and given home at the end of the week in a special certificate.
When it is your child’s turn, we ask that you would also share a compliment

with them. We hope that this will help the children to develop in their self
esteem and the support and respect they show each other as friends

Here are some suggestions of things you can be doing at home to support
and develop this learning;

• Talk to your child about their feelings
• Encourage them to name their feelings
• Ask them how they know someone is feeling a particular way by looking
for facial clues
• Ask them to give you real life examples of how they feel so they can
link their experiences to their feelings.
• Encourage them to recognise how other people might be feeling, e.g.
family members or characters in books or films