Bringing up children can be enjoyable and rewarding but it also has its challenges. At times like these, such as during the current pandemic, it is good to get outside advice and support.
If you live in the Frimley Health and Care area (which covers East Berkshire, Surrey Heath and North East Hampshire and Farnham), you can access four free online parenting guides.
These include top tips from childcare, education and NHS health experts:-
• Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby
• Understanding your baby
• Understanding your child 0 to 19 years
• Understanding your teenager’s brain
The online guides contain advice relevant to expectant parents, parents, grandparents and carers of children of all ages including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The guides are also available in different languages.
Access to the guides is unlimited with no expiry date, so you can return as and when you need and want to. Each guide has between 5 to 11 sessions which last roughly 20 minutes each, there are also activities that can be carried out between courses.
Registration is quick and easy visit www.inourplace.co.uk Apply the access code PARENTING Please note that access codes are not case sensitive.
The guides are provided by the Solihull Approach and made available locally by Frimley Local Maternity System which is part of the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS), a partnership of NHS, health services, local authorities, voluntary sector and local people working to improve health and care services.
Michael Jarrett, Service Lead, Early Years and Prevention said: “We know that being a parent is one of the best jobs in the world but we also acknowledge that it can, at times, also be quite challenging. With this in mind, we have developed a parenting strategy for Slough which sets out a range of support programmes for families. This on-line offer as part of the Solihull Programme has been developed as an on-line resource, and the feedback from families who have already accessed it is very positive.
As a council we recognise that support needs to be available when you need it, in an accessible form and hope that you will take up this on-line offer.”
Feedback from people who have previously used the guides includes:
“The Solihull Approach course I did made it clear parents don’t need lessons: daily life throws us enough of those. What we need is the space to step back and observe our children. We need some structured guidance to help us reflect on all the factors that make them behave the way they do; some developmental, some circumstantial.”
“It’s an absolutely brilliant course. And is a fantastic way to educate us all to pause and stop and try to see what’s behind the behaviour rather than responding to the behaviour. Applies to work colleagues/ friends/ acquaintances as well as kids! Win win win.”
Images and text courtesy of Solihull Approach and Slough Borough borough Council