Parenting support for infants and pre school children

Parenting Programmes

'Time Out - Early Years'

This is a 6-week parenting programme, bringing parents together to look at building healthy relationships with their babies, toddlers and preschoolers and develop learning through fun and play. Sharing ideas with other parents and carers is a key element. Discussions are based around real-life scenarios. Each session includes space to plan any changes you want to make in your parenting and, from week 2, an opportunity to discuss how that's working.

'Time Out - Dads'

This is a 5-week parenting programme looking at how Dads can improve their understanding of how to meet their child's needs, including learning and development. Exploring other key aspects including building self-esteem and positive communication, setting and maintaining boundaries, and managing behaviours. An opportunity to think about how a fathers role might change as the child grows and ways to build a healthy relationship with the wider family.

'Time Out - Anger'

This is a 4-week parenting programme looking at how anger can threaten family life and can cause families to lose trust in each other and drift apart. The training will help parents understand anger as a natural emotion and how you can handle this safely using practical strategies and the idea of an anger river. Parents will understand how anger affects them, how to recognise when they enter the anger river and practical and tested ways of handling anger safely and healthily. The course helps both parents and children understand how to manage their anger in safe and healthy ways.

Please contact your local primary school who may offer these courses or alternatively the family hubs run courses throughout the year.

Alternatively, for more information please go visit our Family Information Services.