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Facilitating Parent-Child Interactions With More Than One Child

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Facilitating Parent-Child Interactions With More Than One Child

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Facilitators: Hannah & Lynnette

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Facilitators: Hannah & Lynnette

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Facilitators: Louise & Jency

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Increasing Caregivers Engagement & Motivation

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Increasing Caregivers Engagement & Motivation

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Facilitators: Cassandra & Marie

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Colour reflections: Choose a colour that represents what you feel right now

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What are your hopes and intent for learning circles?

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Star making competition

Reflection:

Rating 1-10, how motivated were you?

What motivated/reduced your motivation?

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Sharing stories and experiences of working with families with multiple children

Role play practice

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Symbol Reflection: Recognising that adapting to change is a journey, how are you doing now as you adapt to the revised KidSTART service model?

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1) Draw your feelings (Reflective activity)

Draw a picture (with as much details – try not to use emojis) that represents how u feel when you face challenges engaging or motivating caregivers during home visits

2) Reflect on a specific experience/ situation

Factors that impact engagement and motivation (e.g.  languages, temperament, gender, own experiences)

3) Group discussion

Grp 1 -- What anchors, guides us/ to make certain decisions during/after home visits to increase engagement and motivation with clients?

Grp 2 -- How can we navigate the factors that impact engagement and motivation with clients

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Key takeaway

Sharing of group wisdom

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Voting for Learning Circle topics

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Self-reflection:

What are some concrete steps we want to take to engage and motivate caregivers in the next visit?

(Standby activity) Reflect on moments you have successfully motivated a caregiver, draw on the other side of your A4 paper how you feel.

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[Marie & Cass] Learning Circle Session Plan

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My brain vs Client's brain

Each KSP will receive two brain templates:

1. To capture (draw/write) what’s running through their own minds during HVs on the template.

2. To reflect on what they think is on parents’ minds during HVs.

For facilitators: Acknowledge how from their brain templates, KSPs are already practicing “Keeping the Child in Mind”.

Our LC will focus on execution - specific questions to ask, activities to conduct and strategies to help parents "Keep the Child in Mind" too.

For those who feel they haven’t yet fully applied this, let’s explore opportunities to do so

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1) Pair and Large Group Sharing

10mins 🡪 Break into pairs to discuss what “Keeping the Child in Mind” looks like in your practice.

10mins 🡪 Share key takeaways from the pairs with everyone.

2) Addressing the Reality – Struggles and Strategies

Large Group Discussion: Explore the struggles faced during HVs in terms of “Keeping the Child in Mind” and strategies used to address these challenges.

Examples of struggles:

1) How to bring up developmental/environmental/nutritional concerns to parents

2) Empathy – Helping parents see children’s perspectives

3) How to manage conversations - balancing caregiver concerns vs child’s needs

Other types of concerns:

Parents solely focusing on their own challenges

Parents who rejects suggestions

Parents who acknowledge issues but resist change

Strategies to address these challenges:

What has worked well for KSPs?

Examples of strategies:

Showing videos of children to highlight developmental milestones.

Leveraging MDT support or peer practitioners.

Practicing patience, as change takes time.

Providing bite-sized information or activities to caregivers.

Assessing family readiness to implement changes.

Tapping on family’s strengths

3) HOVRS Activity

Pair Activity:

Each pair will take one HOVRS scale, focus on the rows with 7 points (where relevant) and discuss:

What actions or statements indicate that parents are “Keeping the Child in Mind”.

Come up with reflective questions KSPs can use to help parents consider their child’s perspective.

Record insights on Padlet for shared learning.

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Reflection

What is your takeaway?

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Supporting Emotional Regulation in Young Children (Part 1)

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Supporting Emotional Regulation in Young Children (Part 1)

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Facilitators: Kani & Mahes

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Weather report:

Share your current / past week’s emotional state using weather metaphor & actions

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Common behavioral challenges by developmental age bands (2-3yo) & (4-6yo)

What are some strategies you have tried/conversations you have facilitated with caregivers in managing children's behaviors and emotions?

What are some forms of resistance you have faced from caregivers? What did you do to help with resistance?

Parallel with HOVRS

KidSTART Practice Principles

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Key takeaway

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[L1.5] Emotional Regulation in Children (Part 1)

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Supporting Emotional Regulation in Young Children (Part 2)

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Supporting Emotional Regulation in Young Children (Part 2)

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Facilitators: Nadhirah & Jacintha

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In one of the box, draw a family that you are working with who faces challenges in supporting

their child/children’s emotional regulation and in the other box, draw yourself.

Then proceed to identify the

temperament trait of the caregiver/s and yourself.

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What are some strategies to work with a parent who has those traits?

Parents’ background & experiences

Parents’ culture and beliefs

“What are some unique culture/ beliefs that you have encounter?”

Reflecting on parenting styles

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Sharing of success stories

Using today’s sharing, what are some things you’d like to try or work on with your identified family?

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Supporting Families and children through transitions

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Supporting Families and children through transitions

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Facilitator: Rafhana & Novis

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Game: Follow the leader

All participants are to think of an action.

When the leader points to you, all participants are to follow the actions.

Leader will choose who will go next.

How do feel when you were doing the activity?

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Exploring transitions

1) What does this transition look like for the child/ caregiver?

2) What are some emotions the child/ caregiver may experience during this transition?

3) What are some common questions asked by caregivers about this transition?

Reflecting on transitions

1) What are some ways to support a smooth transition for a child?

2) Which principles are we anchoring on to effectively support families through times of transition?

3) What signs tells us that the transition needs to be addressed earlier?

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Summary of ways to support family through transitions

Sharing one key take-away

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Facilitator: Kani & Marie

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Activity: “What Makes Me Pause?”

1. Reflection in pairs (10 minutes)

Reflect back on your recent visits and share one topic as a KSP, you viewed as sensitive to bring up during home visits.

Why it felt sensitive? (e.g., fear of offending, personal triggers, cultural sensitivity).

How you think families might feel when this topic is raised?

2. Group Sharing (15–20 minutes)

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Exploring common sensitive topics and what makes them sensitive

Sharing: OARS (Motivational interviewing)

Linking: HOVRS

Discussion & role play

In pairs, choose a case scenario where you had to engage caregiver in a sensitive topic

Using HOVRS and OARS as a guide, what are some neutral/ non-intrusive ways to engage the caregiver in the conversation while keeping to your role as a KidSTART Practitioner, and help caregivers Keep Child In Mind

In the larger group, share context/scenario and good tips/ conversation prompts you created and the principals that guided you

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Summary of what can KSPs follow-up with

Reflecting on key takeaway

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Navigating Sensitve Topics during Home Visits

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Facilitator: Lynnette

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Facilitator: Lynnette

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To continue to be intentional in keeping child in mind during home visits. Even when caregivers may be overwhelmed with other concerns sometimes

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One key learning -
To ALWAYS keep child in mind during interaction. Every interaction however small it is, creates an impact towards the family/child.

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Key learning: placing caregivers in the teachers role and encouraging reflections for them

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Always open and willing to share and support with tips and strategies. Emotional support as a group; make the journey less “lonely”

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Have opportunities for parent-child interaction.

TELL parents what they are doing well!!

Always return the conversation back to the impact on the child.

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Write a strength the group embodied -
The small intentions to make a difference will one day be a mountainful of beautiful scenery. The quiet resilence is admirable ♡
Keep swimming and remember to bask in the sun everyone.

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Non-judgemental and safe space where everyone was willing to share their experiences and knowledge openly ❤️

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How can i better fit into the familys needs (marie)

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How can i better fit into the familys needs (marie)

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Through all KSP sharing and mentoring session, it was a constant reminder that its not about what we have to deliver but what the family needs and how we can pace and adjust to them. Keeping the child's needs in mind and advocating. Keeping parents needs- to be affirmed, supported and empowered to lead themselves.

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Our determination has brought us a long way since 18 months ago :) And I really appreciate how everyone has created a safe space to share, listen, and learn together

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Always put child in the centre of focus!

Remember to place parents in the role of a teacher for the child.

Mindful about caregivers readiness to implement strategies - importance of pacing

Help link child development theories into practice (helping to explore ways to explain to parents the link between child behaviours to their development)

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Everybody is very reflective and open to sharing. It feels less lonely to know that we are not the only one going through the challenges/struggles 🥲

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Everyone here are aligned with supporti g children and families . we are open to share what we need to do to continue doing this good work. So much positivity.