New business idea

[Mama9397]

Dear all
I am a former teacher, in the process of setting up a business using my extensive experience of working in Early Years, to help adults support children's learning in their pre-school and early years at school.
The workshops are designed to provide fun, practical hands-on, play-based opportunities for adults (mums, dads, grandparents, carers or practitioners) or adults and children.
The workshops can be: in my home, or participants can host a friendly relaxing daytime or evening session, over a coffee in their own home. Play groups can host my sessions in suitable venues where the children can be supervised and a group of adults can learn with me.
I am keen to encourage dads to take an active role and I am looking at Saturday morning sessions. These were popular when I ran them for the expat community overseas, but I wonder...
Is this something that appeals to people here?
I would appreciate comments and feedback.
Many thanks

Personally I wouldn't see a need for this at all but maybe it's just me

Dirty, no, I can't really see it being something people or businesses would pay for. Was there more money in the expat community?

I am not entirely sure what it is you are proposing to be doing.

Perhaps it may help to explain a bit more about what it is that participants gain from doing this session/course.

If I think back many years, I did a PPA Learning Through Play course, which was about how playing with children, joining in with them, then asking questions of them to extend their learning was beneficial to their development. Is that the sort of thing you would be doing?

Could the course be delivered online? That may open it up to more people, especially if they could do it at a time that suited them. Also could open it up to a wider audience than just people local to you. You could offer support via phone/email/facetime for those who needed it.

Sorry! I don't know why but in my previous post it said 'dirty, no' instead of 'sorry, no'.

Hi there can't answer if there was more money in the expat community, in some quarters yes in others no, same as any community really.
In answer to what people get from the course, they will learn ways to support childrens learning of the basics, writing, maths, thinking skills etc For example lots of people have a morbid fear of maths, and are uncomfortable helping their children. I ran activity sessions where adults learned ways to help their child with early years maths, through, play based activities, such as edible maths, maths through water play, maths in the outdoor environment, the activities were investigative and fun. As a result adults said they felt more confident in supporting their child's learning and children consequently had a more positive can do attitude to themselves as mathematicians. I hope this gives a better idea.

I can't speak for all parents but I have a year 1 child and a year 5 child and neither I or anyone else I know has struggled to support their children at school.
I'm sorry, I run a business myself and think entrepreneurship is to be applauded but I still don't see a need for this