The 5 best courses for parents

Knowing how to raise our sons and daughters cannot be separated from everything we know about child and youth development thanks to Evolutionary Psychology and Educational Psychology.

This is why below we will see a selection of the best courses for parents in Spain, training programs that teach how to educate the little ones and give them the care they need.

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The best parenting courses in Spain

We review some of the most recommended courses for parents looking for guidance; some are online, so you can participate in them without leaving home.

1. Authority and Limits (Carlos Gonzáles, online)

Another of the best courses for parents that we can find online is that of Carlos González, which addresses the sometimes complicated issue of setting limits.

The course is taught by Carlos González, specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychology. He graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1983 and in 1987 he specialized in pediatrics at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Barcelona. In 1991 he founded the Catalan Association for Breastfeeding, where he has taught more than 100 courses on the benefits that breastfeeding offers to their children, as well as to the mother. Since the mid-90s he regularly collaborates with Ser Padres magazine and also in other media and publications such as Mente Sana, Lecturas, and Tu Bebe magazines.

The course is focused on parents who want to learn to manage authority better without instilling fear in their children and always based on respect, in addition to also addressing the concept of authority from a more cultural and historical point. It is divided into 14 lessons that make up a total of 3 hours and 35 minutes of video in 4K quality. Access to this course does not expire, so it offers one the option to manage the study as best suits them.

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2. Alternative Pedagogies (Respectful Education, online)

The Alternative Pedagogies course is another of the most recommended both for its approach and for the guarantees offered by the psychologist who teaches it, Marta Martínez.

This course is focused on demonstrating that There is another type of education possible beyond the classic. A model much more based on the most important psychological, emotional, and relational characteristics of boys and girls throughout their childhood and adolescence.

Additionally, the emotional tools offered in this course not only apply to life as a parent, but can also be transpolated to a person's personal and work life.

The course is based on 8 modules and topics as varied as children's interest and motivation, non-violent communication, the creation of empathy without using rewards or punishments and the concept of multiple intelligences to support the child and exploit their best qualities. The price of this course is €540 and you can reserve it through their website.

3. Parent School (Emotiva Center for Change, Madrid)

“Parent School” is another interesting proposal from Emotiva Centro para el Cambio focused on parents and guardians who want to connect more and better with their children in the healthiest way possible.

In addition to stimulating and benefiting communication directly with children, this course is focused on those fathers and mothers who seek to develop their emotional intelligence in the family environment or who are overwhelmed and have emotional blockages due to everyday issues such as studies, limits, lack of communication... etc

Among the advantages of this course for parents is that it is offered to small groups so each parent enjoys more time with the tutor in case you want to make questions and the benefits that this brings are the improvement of family relationships, tools that will help us improve day-to-day communication, increase self-esteem and promote positive thinking in the Family nucleus.

If you want more information about this course, you can find it on the Emotiva Centro para el Cambio website.

4. Respectful Education and Positive Discipline (Parenting with Common Sense, online)

Raising with Common Sense is a school that offers us another of the most interesting courses on parenting and raising boys and girls with respect, happiness and trust.

Silvia Guijarro, mother of a girl and a boy, has more than 10 years of experience in the education sector as a primary school teacher and working with children between 6 and 12 years old. In 2007 she obtained the Positive Discipline Association certificate as a Positive Discipline Educator for family groups and is currently focused on her facet of offering courses, assistance and guidance to families seeking to increase their emotional and affective ties with their children, always starting from a basis of respect and tolerance.

This course is organized in 7 sessions, among which the one about child behavior, respectful limits, and what we want for our children and our family stand out. If you want more information about this course you can find it on the Criar con Sentido Común school page.

5. Positive discipline (Log School)

The School Logs offers this online Positive Discipline course, taught by educator Bei M. Muñoz, a true expert in this pedagogical model of parenting that more and more parents around the world put into practice.

The course includes 3 hours and 15 minutes of high-quality video, with 15 didactic lessons with which you will learn tools very useful practices with which you can provide your children with the best education based on respect, communication and love.

The course has a price of €9.90 and once you have registered you will have permanent access to all its contents for life.