I’ve enjoyed coming to this course and always look forward to Monday as new and improved parent techniques were taught. It helped me to stay calm and control my temper and anger and deal with stressful situations that sometimes I have to tackle with my child. I’ve liked when parents open up with their family situations and it made me realise that I’m not on my own and I even learned from other parents. [SFSC] has prepared me for other situations my child might get to, especially when hitting the teenage period. I would recommend this course to every parent and I wish it would be mandatory. The facilitators were amazing, always listened to our drama and never judged and provided us with nice food and a clean environment.

Even though it was a struggle to come, every week I got a little something. Two steps forward one step back. I started to feel better, and that was the thing. How I reacted made my child react in a different way. Wanting to cry, being strong – looking for the positive out of the situation – that was something after years of parenting I’d stopped doing. So that was good to re-ignite about my parenting after years.

The mood has been honesty. I came here because I’d been arguing (with my wife) a lot about how we parented our boy, so it was a form of marriage counselling. If we don’t sort out how we parent, it could split us up. As the programme has continued I’ve thought maybe its not the kid, its me! This has been hard to accept but its made me take a long look in the mirror and I’ve had to face up to my past and the reason why I behave the way I do – chaos, quick temper – its part of what I saw. The incredible bit has been hearing other’s stories which has made me think I have nothing to moan about. Its made me feel not so guilty, bad or sad but the end of the programme is a starting point.