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Founding Development Programme: Parent Research Survey

This survey is being conducted by Joshua Phillips / Phillips Mentorship & Development to understand the experiences and needs of teenage boys and their parents.

Your answers will be used for research and service development. They will not automatically sign you or your son up to a programme.

Your information will be stored securely and access will be limited to what is needed for the research.

Research responses will be analysed for themes and patterns; identifying information will be removed or minimised where practical.

If information suggests that a child may be at risk of harm, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed and appropriate safeguarding action may need to be taken.

Any permission to contact you for an interview, record an interview, or send future programme information is requested separately.

Read the full Research Privacy & Safeguarding Notice

Acknowledgement

An honest, no-pressure view of raising a teenage boy.

PURPOSE: Honest research
TIME: 15-20 minutes
COMMITMENT: None

Thank you for helping with this. I am developing structured developmental mentorship for teenage boys during the most formative years of their transition into adulthood.

This is research, not a sales call, application or assessment of your son. Please be blunt. Concerns, disagreement and criticism are more useful than answers given out of politeness.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Complete the questions in order and do not read the programme outline near the end until asked. You may skip any question.

Date

Parent/carer first name or ID

Your son's age

Relationship

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1. What life looks like now

What is hardest about this stage of raising your son?
A recent example is more useful than a general label.

What concerns you most about the direction he is moving in?
What makes that concern feel important now?

After answering in your own words, mark up to three areas that are most present.

If you marked something else, type it here.

Where do you see ability or potential that is not currently being used?
How does the gap between his ability and his current actions show up day to day?

2. What you have already tried

What have you already tried to help, guide or motivate him?
What helped, even briefly? What faded or failed? Why do you think that happened?

What tends to happen when you try to advise, motivate or correct him?
Think about the usual pattern, then give one recent example.

Mark any patterns that regularly occur.

3. Change that would actually matter

If the next eight weeks went well, what would you be able to observe?
Translate words such as 'confidence' or 'discipline' into actions: what would he do, how often, and with how much prompting?

What do you think your son would want help with, if it genuinely felt like his choice?
His goal may be different from yours. Try to answer from his point of view.

Mark up to three areas you think he might choose for himself.

4. Trust, concerns and value

What would you need in order to trust somebody working closely with your son?
Consider safety, boundaries, lived experience, training, communication, proof and the way your son is treated.

What would concern you about a small group mentorship programme?
Please do not soften the concern. What would reduce it, if anything?

If something like this worked, what would make it genuinely valuable to your family?
What kind of change would justify the time, trust and commitment involved?

5. Urgency and decision conditions

How urgent does this feel for your family right now?
Mark one. 1 means 'not urgent'; 5 means 'very urgent'.

1 - Not urgent5 - Very urgent

Why that number? What makes it that number rather than one lower?

Who else would need to believe in or agree to something like this?

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If someone else, type their role here.

If the 8-week programme launches, would you like Phillips Mentorship & Development to email you with information about it?
Permission to follow up is not a commitment to join.

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