Anyone done the "triple p" parenting course?

[Fivebyfive2]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has done this course recently and what they thought of it?

It's been recommended to us by my son's nursery, to try and help us manage some of his, ahem, "quirks"??

He's 4.5 on the waiting list for an autism assessment but in the meantime we were chatting with nursery about things to try and help him. The nursery manager recommended the course, she's done the general one and the teen one with her kids (one is autistic) and uses some of the strategies at the nursery. My son loves it there.

He's generally well behaved (very big on rules, things being "right") but gets really anxious and struggles socially. Transitions and break from routine or "the plan" are really hard for him.

Anyway, like I said, just curious to see if anyone else has experience with it?

My friend and her husband did it fifteen years ago or something when their kids were young.

It's been around a long time so I'm presuming that shows it must be good or it'd have died a death by now!

Friend said it was amazing. That they didn't realise they had slipped into patterns of doing things that was having a knock on effect onto other things that was causing problems. Sorted these out. Behaviour and sleep improved. Much less shouting in the household.

Can't remember much else tbh but the kids have grown up into amazing young men who are now in the early years of uni and really lovely boys.

Up here we got it free. Then they started charging for it in certain council areas, still free in socially disadvantaged areas.

For many it's just a barrier to the real
Support a child needs. Possible autism..send the parents on a course. Some people are told to go on it multiple times while their kids are denied assessment or therapy. I'm sure the course helps many but in some areas it's poorly targeted to parents of autistic/adhd kids who actually require more than that.