Check out our ABC Snapshots below in the resource section.

What children need to grow up happy and healthy: Looking at key factors that influence on parenting and exploring what children need to feel safe, loved and supported. It highlights the importance of play and quality time in strengthening relationships and gives a simple overview of developmental milestones and how you can support your child at specific points in their development.  

Emotional Resilience: Is the ability to manage stress and still function reasonably well, to ‘bounce back’.  For children’s emotional development it is important that parents and carers are able to manage their emotions.  This snapshot aims to help us understand why this happens and what we can do about it.

Understanding behaviour and family values: Exploring what do children behave the way they do, why adults behave the way they do, and how we can have different parenting styles. This snapshot will also focus on the importance of family values, where these may come from and how creating your own family values can prevent conflict with family members pulling in different directions.

Realistic expectations and healthy boundaries: This snapshot explores why having realistic expectations of children’s behaviour is essential, introduces simple ways to encourage positive behaviour and looks at practical strategies for responding to tricky moments using fair and consistent consequences.

Safer Communities: The focus is upon what the potential risks are to our children from birth to 11yrs plus in the community and online.  This snapshot will focus upon considering what parents and carers can do, to keep children safe.