I like Claire Richards
She runs parenting courses for Conwy Education Services, and she is a teacher. The courses are great. Christine and I went to one in 2006 and it helped us bring much more peace into our home and effectiveness into our leadership as parents.
The problem with the courses is that hardly anyone goes to them. Maybe not enough people know about them? Maybe there is a perceived stigma with attending a parenting course?
We know that that kind of stigma is silly. In no other part of life (except for maybe within the slacker crowd at high school) would you be stigmatised for wanting to get better at what you do. But calling stigma silly doesn’t get parents onto your course.
Claire knows that. Instead of shouting at the status quo…
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23 October 2008 Jeff Gill
tags: change,
community,
leadership,
north wales,
parenting
