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 13-week course designed to help parents raise confident, emotionally healthy children in today’s fast-changing world. Blending life coaching, emotional wellbeing, and digital literacy, the programme offers practical tools and guidance rooted in everyday parenting challenges. It supports parents in developing greater self-awareness, stronger communication skills, and a clearer sense of direction in family life.
The course is especially valuable for those navigating parenting in the UK while coming from different cultural backgrounds. It creates a safe space to explore cultural differences, rethink inherited parenting habits, and adapt to the expectations of raising children in a new environment. With a focus on growth, understanding, and practical action, The Parent Licence helps families thrive together.
At the end of the programme, each parent receives:
- A Parent Licence Certificate — symbolic proof of effort, learning, and growth
- A Parenting Highway Code — A printed or digital guide summarising lessons
- Access to check-ins and community groups for support beyond the course
- Added to Support Circle Group – WhatsApp or in-person peer support groups for accountability
- Attend Licence Ceremony – A celebratory event with presentations and affirmations
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.
Programme Benefits
✅ Build emotional awareness and strengthen your parenting mindset
✅ Improve communication, boundaries, and connection within the family
✅ Navigate digital challenges with confidence and balance
✅ Understand cultural expectations and legal responsibilities as a parent in the UK
✅ Leave empowered with practical tools, renewed purpose, and your symbolic Parent Licence