Week 6: Clear Instructions 8 week course
Week 6 Clear Instructions
Last week we looked at the first part of managing our children’s behaviour – when to ignore unwanted behaviour, and how to manage our stress levels while we do so.
This week we’ll be looking at how to give instructions in a way that is specific and clear to our child.
7:30 Welcome & Agenda
7:40 Review
Remind the parents that the subject we covered last week was ignoring and staying calm
Ask if anyone have any interesting results after last week that they would like to share, or any questions they would like to ask. Once any sharing has finished, hold up a copy of the One to One Time Diary which you handed out last week and ask how their One to One time assignments went; ask
Did anyone have anything to share about the One to One time assignment? Any problems? Any questions?
7:50 Videos
Clear Instructions
8:00 Powerpoint Presentation
You now give a short presentation about clear instructions
Video
Clear Instructions; short video on how not to!
08:10 Exercise in pairs
Ask the parents to get into pairs again and turn to the Clear Instructions exercise in their Parenting Workbook.
There are five examples of poor or unclear instructions; ask them to work in their pairs to turn each one into a clear instruction.
8:15 Group Discussion
Come back together as a group and go through the five poor instructions; ask them to call out ideas of better ways of wording the instructions. Ask if they have any questions or examples of other instructions they would like to improve.
8:20 Home Assignment and Goodbye
Hand out copies of the One to One Time diary, explain how to use it and ask them to fill it in over the week for discussion next week.