Table 7.

Teachers' perceptions of the benefits of the Irie Homes Toolbox.

Subtheme	Examples of quotes
Benefits to parents
Parents show better emotional self-regulation	• “I realize that … they were better able to manage their emotions so they were calmer and I saw it in how they dealt with the children.”
Parents praise their child more	• “Praising the child more, they actually praise the child a lot more now. • Yes and praising the child for what they've done, focussing on the positive.”
Increased parental interest in school activities	• “You are now seeing the parents having more interest in how their children learn and the things that they do.”
Stronger parent/child relationship	• “Parents are spending more time with the child…interacting and getting to know their child, and know what their child is about.” • “He [father] seems to be much closer to his daughter than usual.”
Parents use less violence against children	• “Instead of shouting at the child, screaming at the child, barking at the child and the licking, once they started learning how to manage the behavior, that gradually went.” • “Well, some parents would've spoken to the children in a very negative manner, they would shout at them, they would call them names and you're seeing a minimal amount of that now.”
Benefits to children
Children have fewer behavior difficulties	• “He [child] has changed because him nuh fling down himself anymore … Him nuh throw down and carry on, no tantrum nuh throw, nuh nothing.” • “He always is very aggressive but now he's calming down a little bit more.”
Children show increased confidence	• “It has built their confidence because like before some of them would've been a little bit more on the reserve side now they're interacting more, they're talking out more”
Children show increased autonomy and responsibility	• “Yeah they are excited, always wanting to do something all when nothing is on the floor they are sweeping. Yeah, they just want to be helpful.” • “They're better able to do some stuff for themselves as well … Alright so where they couldn't lace or tie before, you're seeing more children saying teacher I can tie my shoelace or teacher I can button.”
Benefits to teacher
Teachers have increased emotional self-regulation	• “So it actually show me. how to manage my emotions, do not lose temper, being in control, it actually help me to do that.”
Teacher uses less violence against children at home and at school	• “So interacting with this program it has now rounded me a little bit more on how to effectively parent without administering slaps.” • “I make sure that you're not supposed to shout; IRIE Teachers are not supposed to hit.”
Teacher increased use of other strategies from the Toolbox at home and at school	• “It help me with the praising, the modeling, knowing each child in the classroom, so praising and awarding them like that is one of the biggest things for my class, and withdrawing attention.” • “It also helps me deal with my daughter….I give her the clear instructions. and when she do good things, I praise her.”
Benefits to parent-teacher relationship
Stronger parent-teacher relationships	• “We work together and anything they can come to me and they can talk with me, they can send messages, they write notes. We have a communication.” • “It's easier on me now because they understand some of the things that I have been trying to build with the children so they are better able to help me.”
Teacher shows more empathy toward parents	• “So things that I took for granted that they knew, they really didn't know. It was like an eye opener and it taught me how to be a little more patient and tolerant with them.” • “I'm realizing that some of them really didn't know so my patience level stepped up a notch, my tolerance level stepped up a notch.”