Parenting Tips

Please browse through our various parenting tips

• Parentline's parenting pointers
• Communication
• Building the Relationship
• Physical Punishment
• Bullying
• Drugs
• Books for Children (Reading List)

Please find below links to some useful websites on Parenting.

 www.prematurebaby.ie 
The arrival of a new baby is a very exciting time for a family – but having one or more babies born prematurely can be quite demanding and stressful. It is our hope that this Premature Baby website will help you to understand your baby's progress and give you the confidence to ask the questions you need, to find out how to care for your premature baby. We also hope that it will help you to look after your baby at home, and direct you where to turn for help, if necessary.

Rollercoaster.ie
"Being a parent can bring you to the heights of joy and the depths of despair - all within the space of a few minutes ! RollerCoaster.ie accompanies you on this exciting journey."

Solo.ie
"It's always nice to have new people join in. This is a "safe place" to laugh, cry, rant & rave, (nicely, of course), brag, ask opinions and advise, and of course share strength and hope with each other." "(Single Parents On Line)"

Taking Children Seriously
"TCS is an educational philosophy. Its most distinctive feature is the idea that it is possible and desirable to bring up children entirely without doing things to them against their will, or making them do things against their will, and that they are entitled to the same rights, respect and control over their lives as adults."

Parentalequality.ie
"...dedicated to the promoting joint custody and shared parenting as the most child-friendly outcome of separation, divorce and relationship breakdown."

www.parentlineplus.org.uk

The Crisis Pregnancy Agency has produced a number of resources to assist parents to provide relationship and sex education to their children.

www.crisispregnancy.ie/parentresource.html