Parenting Licence
Just like learning to drive, parenting requires understanding, application and confidence . By the end, participants “qualify” with more clarity, capability, and confidence to lead their families with care and intention.
Programme Description
The Parent Licence is a transformative 13-week journey that equips parents with the tools, self-awareness, and cultural understanding needed to raise healthy, happy children in the UK. It blends life coaching, emotional wellbeing, practical parenting strategies, and digital literacy all rooted in real-life challenges and opportunities. The course is especially helpful for parents who’ve migrated from cultures where parenting norms differ from UK expectations.
Participants will explore family dynamics, discipline strategies that comply with UK safeguarding laws, emotional communication, and how to support their children in a digital world. By the end, they will gain both a personal growth roadmap and a symbolic “Parent Licence” celebrating their journey.
What Is the Parent Licence?
At the end of the programme, each parent receives:
- A Parent Licence Certificate — symbolic proof of effort, learning, and growth
- A Personal Growth Roadmap — based on their Wheel of Life and parenting reflections
- Ongoing access to check-ins and community groups for support beyond the course
Optional Add-Ons
- 📝 Parent Theory Booklet – A printed or digital guide summarising lessons
- 🎓 Licence Ceremony – A celebratory event with presentations and affirmations
- 🧑🤝🧑 Support Circle Group – WhatsApp or in-person peer support groups for accountability
Program Structure Overview
1. Theory Test
Focus: Understanding the road
Description: Build knowledge: parenting mindsets, child development, culture, emotional wellbeing.
2. Driving Lessons
Focus: Applying tools
Description: Time, communication, digital safety, routines, discipline, and more.
3. Final Assessment
Focus: Show your growth
Description: Vision, reflection, community support — and earning your symbolic Parent Licence.
Programme Structure
Week 1 – Understanding the Passenger
Child Development Basics — understanding your child's physical, emotional, and moral needs.
Week 2 – Map Check
Wheel of Life (Part 1) — assessing balance in your own life and how it impacts your parenting approach.
Week 3 – Dashboard Warning Lights
Wheel of Life (Part 2) — identifying key life stressors and emotional gaps that may affect parenting.
Week 4 – Rethinking the Theory
What is Education? — exploring hard, soft, and natural skills. A broader lens on learning and development.
Week 5 – Driving in the Digital World
Parenting in the Digital Age — managing devices, screen time, social media, and digital wellbeing at home.
Week 6 – Indicators & Mirrors
Communication & Boundaries — how to truly listen, speak effectively, and set clear, healthy family rules.
Week 7 – Rules of the Road: UK Discipline & Safeguarding
Understand UK laws on child discipline. Learn how to guide children without crossing safeguarding lines. Includes cultural reflections and a guest expert session.
Week 8 – Fuel, Time & Energy
Managing Time, Work & Presence — balancing life’s demands without emotional burnout or guilt.
Week 9 – The Joyride
Play, Joy, and Bonding — why fun is vital for development and how to rediscover meaningful connection.
Week 10 – Difficult Roads (Split Sessions)
- Track A: Support for Single Mothers
- Track B: Fathers & Leadership
Navigating responsibility, absence, identity, and healing through gender-specific sessions.
Week 11 – Roadside Support
Circles of Care & Community Support — how to build, maintain, and lean on trusted support systems.
Week 12 – Money, Mindset & Maintenance
Financial beliefs, family vision, and introducing money talk at home. Raising financially aware, confident kids.
Week 13 – The Parent Licence
Final Showcase — each parent shares their journey, receives their symbolic licence, and celebrates growth.