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Falling out and making up: skills for life
For all parents navigating the inevitable ups and downs of their relationships.
Building a stronger relationship together
Arguing is normal in every relationship – it is also a life skill we learn throughout childhood and adolescence through our close relationships.
“Parents don’t just teach their children skills and behaviour with friends by instructing or encouraging them, they also model behaviours, teaching them through their own words and behaviours with others that children will observe and learn from.”
Dr Rebecca Johnson
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Navigating tough times
Navigating tough times as parents together or separately can be hard. Parenting is not easy, and the pressures of everyday life can easily, and understandably, mount up and even overwhelm the closest couples.
If you’re not sure the way you are arguing with your partner is healthy or find some things too hard to talk about, we’re here to support you with key skills that can help you in relationships with your partner, other relatives and your children. The Solihull Approach is proven to help people more confidently manage areas of disagreement and strengthen relationships: it brings together psychological theory with practice and people for real resilience and happier lives.
Falling out and making up
Developing skills for life
Working through conflict for your family’s wellbeing
Understanding your relationships: an online course review
Parenting is one of the most transformational and significant changes we experience as humans, bringing new depths to our relationships – both at times a source of great happiness and also an incredible challenge.
We each bring potentially different expectations, family histories and ways of resolving conflict to the table. Whether parenting together or separately, learning how to handle conflict in healthy ways is important for your child’s longer-term wellbeing, as well as your own. Children learn these key skills from their parents. Modelling how to resolve conflict in healthy ways will help shape your child’s approach when they encounter conflict within their own friendships and relationships.
Find what you need in our bitesize e-learning and blogs
Understanding your relationships
Online learning to support you to thrive in all your close relationship and understand emotional wellbeing.
Healthier ways to argue: When you need to rock the boat
Many parents find themselves in this difficult situation. Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Rebecca Johnson, shares some thoughts about having difficult conversations.
Positive co-parenting: handling conflict when you’re no longer with your children’s other parent
Even if you’re no longer together, positive co-parenting is important for children and their longer term wellbeing. Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Hazel Douglas MBE, shares her advice on resolving conflict when you live separately
Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager
Online learning in childhood development and emotional wellbeing.
Understanding your child with additional needs
Developing the important relationships in your child’s life, helping their wellbeing.