Top Tips for Parents & Carers
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Centre for Emotional Health (formerly Family Links) provides free leaflets and guides to help you at every stage of your parenting journey. Click the blue links to read them now, or save them for later.
Top Tips: Take a look at the Family Links Parenting Booklet for top tips on giving praise, setting boundaries, recharging your batteries and more.
Negotiation: Sometimes we need to meet in the middle. Check out the 8 Steps for Negotiation Leaflet
Choices and Consequences: This helpful guide has 7 steps for giving Choices and Consequences with examples.
Problem-Solving: Are the same things causing a problem in your family life? Find out how to work together with this guide to Problem-Solving
Active Ignoring can work well on behaviours such as whining, interrupting, swearing and sulking. The Active Ignoring Guide can help you master this technique:
Giving Time to Calm Down: Sometimes we just all need a breather, follow the 10-step guide to Supporting Children to Calm Down.
Giving Praise is so much more than a well done. Read these 9 Easy Steps to Giving Praise Effectively
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