TODDLER COURSE
A course for children over 1 yr
We learn about your child’s evolving play and development, while upgrading skills for partnership.
Learn about the crucial development in
toddlerhood and upgrade your partnership skills as you child grows their will power.
What will I learn about?
Week 1 - Play and the Intelligences
We will learn about the patterns of play and how you can support your child’s growing imagination.
Week 2 - Emotions and Energy
Explore the human emotional spectrum, stress, energy and feelings so we can best cope with the strong emotions of your toddler.
Week 3 - Routines, Rituals and Rhythm.
Looking at what you do to maintain a secure and safe relationship as your child becomes more independent.
Week 4 - Nurturing Wonder and Curiosity
We look at the ways your child uses their senses to collect information and explore the world around them and build a body of knowledge.
Week 5 - Partnership and Cooperation for Life
Upgrade your partnership skills as your child grows their will power and look at how to work with your toddler, instead of against them.
Week 6 - Handling Conflict
Opportunity to observe our own style of handling conflict and learn healthy ways to manage and support your child through conflict.
Week 7 - Creativity and Imagination
We will look at how crucial imaginative play is to your child developing true intelligent and innovative qualities and how we can support this.
Week 8 - Love, Fear and Trust
Learning about the role of love and fear in trusting your toddler and how they relate to the world and people around them.
Week 9 - Culture vs Biology
Looking at our culture’s view of toddlerhood, their biological needs at this age and how you can be a guardian for your child’s holistic wellbeing.
Week 10 - The Act of Love
Looking at what get’s in the way of love, what promotes it and bringing together all the learning form the past nine weeks.
“There is no single effort more
radical for saving the world than
the way we bring up our children.”
— Marianne Williamson
A typical session…
We always start with a treasured ritual of morning tea, homemade baking and a cup of tea (that I provide), as a time to connect with each other and as a buffer if you’re running late.
Each session follows a similar rhythm. We begin with a recap of the last week’s topic and a chance to share the things that you noticed during the week, in yourself or your child. Then I share this weeks topic and the supporting quote, which leads into our in depth teaching and discussion, followed by an exercise that exemplifies the theme. We then spend a few minutes in a guided silent observation, this is time for you to watch what your child is doing, how they are moving and what takes their interest. After that we discuss what you noticed and any other questions you have from the session. At the end of the session there’s some time to chat and have another cup of tea before you head off.
You also get a handbook with short readings and extra resources. These readings connect to the week’s topic and extend the learning from in class. It’s not like homework but it will deepen your understanding and give you extra support. It’s also really helpful to show your partner or whoever is supporting you in parenting. If you miss a session, you can catch up through reading this too.
There’s enough time during the session to pause for more food, respond to your child or support them as they play. We follow the children's lead as they explore the different spaces and play things in the garden.
They might pick fruit and veggies from around the garden, create mud pies and have tea parties in the sandpit and water play, build huts under the trees, hang out in the hammocks, swing on the rope swings, collect flowers or create their own games with other children.
I have a range of open-ended play things that I bring out every week for the children to use in their play, including a collection of metal cups and bowls, long lengths of rope, stacks of fabric, little baskets and more. All of these are available to the children during the session to use in whichever way they like. There's so much for them to get stuck into and play the morning away!
We try to be outside as much as possible, it’s where the children are usually most content and can have rich experiences with the natural environment. However if it’s wet or really cold, we’ll be inside in the lounge with a range of play things. If the rain clears or the weather warms up we’ll venture outside for the rest of the session.
What’s included?
10 sessions / 15 hours of content
Toddler Course Handbook
Homemade morning tea for everyone
All play resources
Weekly email updates
A supportive and safe environment to connect and learn
Your partner or support person is welcome and encouraged to attend the course with you, at no extra cost.
If you have younger children, you are welcome to bring them along to the course!
This course builds on the skills and learnings from the Baby Course, for children 0-12 mths. (You can still attend the Toddler Course if you haven’t done this.) This course is created by Pennie Brownlee and taught all over New Zealand. It’s based on the teachings of Dr Emmi Pikler and supported by the latest brain research.
2022
10 weeks
10:30am - 12pm
Mondays
This course is run on demand, so get in touch to register your interest.
Payment
$250
The 20% deposit is required to be paid upfront to hold your place, and the remainder can be paid in instalments before the last class, or you can pay in full if you wish.