Recognising the unique characteristics of your child. Each of us is born with unique characteristics and it is important that we encourage our children to develop their own unique style of being.

Parents often want to know how they can make their children behave or be ‘good’. Parents want to know how to get their children to make their bed or bring their washing down

Should we encourage shop bought or free incentives for children’s reward charts? Sally our experienced parenting programme facilitator shares her thoughts:

As a single parent, it can be harder to discipline your children as there is no other adult backing you or re-enforcing your rules.
Discipline means to teach, not to punish!

Our children need to learn self discipline, the difference between right and wrong. We all want our children to behave well, feel confident in decision making and grow into responsible adults.

Single parents often feel that they spend ALL their time with the children, but do we really? Are we washing up? Going to playgroup? Cleaning? On the phone? Cooking?

As our children grow they need to learn to make decisions for themselves. Our job as parents is to help them with this.

Cyberbullying can happen on social networking sites, like Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, in Internet chat rooms, blogs (online journals), Instant Messaging, on photo or video sharing sites like Youtube and in online gaming.

Bullying, whether physical or emotional, is a terrible ordeal for any child and difficult for parents to deal with.

We want our children to be more resilient, so how can we do this? Our world is obsessed with 10 Top Tips to …, 5 Ways to…, 3 Strategies for… but there’s a better

Attending a parenting programme shows strength not weakness. We all need support with raising our children.