Health and Social Care“Children begin by loving their parents, after a time they judge them; rarely,
if ever, do they forgive them”
(Oscar Wilde)
Issues
- Getting it right
- Dealing with discipline
- Providing emotional, physical and mental support for a child
- Nursery places
- Coping strategies
- Nurturing strategies
- Maintaining work/life balance
- Creating a stable home life
- Foster children
- Parenting support
- Financial Pressures
- Teenage issues
- Coping with a new baby
- Sleep deprivation
- Providing for the future
- Availability of flexible working conditions
See link to Gender – Women
Information
- Parents Advice Centre provides a range of information for parents for example
information packs and various leaflets.
Publications Include:
- Men's Attitudes and Values Research
- Images of Men Group Work Discussion Pack
- Men's Life and Times Year Planner
- Let's Talk about Drugs
- Traveller's Parenting Pack
- Anti-Bullying Leaflet
- Parenting Forum N.I.
Publications and distribution of quarterly newssheets and booklet to cover Parent's
Week Events.
Support Networks
Parents Advice Centre
- Provides help and support for families through the following three projects:
- Parenting Education ( these programmes promote parenting issues and highlight
the importance of a parent's role in the development of their child)
- Parenting Forum (provides ongoing work with the steering group and with a subgroup
on developing a Parenting Forum Information Pack).
- The Mens Project (tackles the issues facing local men and boys)
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