Mum of children aged 13, 9 and 4 – On top of the World

“I heard about the Par­ent Cham­pi­ons course through work. After a few weeks I sat down and gave it some thought as maybe it could help me with one of my chil­dren. I decided to start on the course on a pro­fes­sional level, not really want­ing to let on that I had a trou­ble­some child!

After the first ses­sion ended I came away laugh­ing to myself think­ing no that’s so not for me I felt it was too way out and would not suit my needs. I decided there and then that I would not go back.

I then asked a few of the other ladies in the group what they thought and was sur­prised that they all thought it was won­der­ful, which led me to believe that I should give it another go. The sec­ond week then clicked for me and Alan was right I had stepped out of my com­fort zone into some­thing new. Every­one around me had the same trou­bles. This time I smiled as I left and knew that I would carry the course on to the end.

The change in the house has been amaz­ing, things seem to be calmer, I have reached out to my child on sev­eral occa­sions and she has responded with­out argu­ing or growl­ing at me! I did not realise the dif­fer­ence was obvi­ous until my child’s teacher asked me what had been going on recently at home, when I ques­tioned her on what exactly she meant, she told me that over the last few weeks she has wit­nessed my child becom­ing calmer, pos­i­tive and a plea­sure to teach – I replied I am on a Par­ent Cham­pion course! “Well done you”, was her remark to me!

I have now started a diet as one of my ‘SMART goals’ and have changed my way of eat­ing, I have dis­cov­ered my energy which has resulted in me going for walks with the chil­dren, tak­ing them out, play­ing and cook­ing with them.

I feel pos­i­tive and good about myself again and have started to make an effort with my clothes, hair and face.

My eldest child (13 years old) com­mented – “Mum I don’t know what you are doing on that course but it suits you, you are calmer, lov­ing – a totally dif­fer­ent per­son!” These changes are for the bet­ter I replied ner­vously. After being away for a whole week­end she hugged me and said I love the new you even more!! I hugged her hard and kissed the top of her head smil­ing to myself and feel­ing on top of the world!”