invest in play® Parent Program

The iiP® program teaches practical and compassionate strategies that are proven to be effective. The strategies consist of six steps that help build a strong foundation for a child’s life. Using these steps, parents will learn to:

  • Use play and positive attention to strengthen the relationship with their child and create greater trust between them.
  • Support their child’s learning, emotional, and social skills.
  • Set caring boundaries that create a predictable and secure framework for their child’s well-being and development.
  • Regulate strong emotions – their own as well as their child’s.

The course has been shown to build children’s social competence, self-confidence, and emotion regulation skills and help parents respond to common childhood issues such as whining and not listening. It also helps children struggling with low self-esteem, behavioral difficulties, ADHD, and Autism.

In this video a few parents share their experiences with invest in play®.

Credits: invest in play®

Six bricks for children

In 12 meetings we will be building …

  1. Parental self-confidence: connecting thoughts, feelings and behaviours
  2. Relationships and self-worth: play and descriptive commenting
  3. Learning and social skills: focused commenting
  4. Emotional awareness and regulation: focused commenting
  5. Confidence: descriptive praise
  6. Confidence: rewards
  7. Security: clear instructions
  8. Security: routines
  9. Co-operation: selective attention
  10. Co-operations: consequences and parental self-management
  11. Self regulation: pause to calm down
  12. Continuity: repetition, evaluation and celebration