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How a Good Parenting Group can be Essential Support

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Becoming a parent Becoming a parent is something no one can ever prepare you for. People can tell you what it’s like and the challenges you will face, but you don’t truly know until it happens. Or how a good parenting group can be essential support. As a first-time mum, I gave birth to my son in September 2019. Me…

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Positive Support for Dads - The Secrets you Didn't Know

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Until more recent years positive support for dads was a little bit of a taboo. Dads were less comfortable talking about needing or seeking help. Having worked as operations manager for Dad Matters a perinatal and parent/infant Mental Health project, I have experienced this first-hand. But things are changing. As part of our service, we aim to support dads to…
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Helpful First Aid Tips for Dads that care

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Over the past several years, the vast majority of the people who have attended my paediatric first aid courses have been women.  This has always baffled me as fathers, grandads, uncles, brothers and indeed all males around children need to know what to do if a child in their care needs emergency assistance. As parents we would do anything to…
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Helpful Advice On Communicating With Children About Their Feelings

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Being able to identify what we feel, for most adults, can cause uncomfortable thoughts, raised anxiety and, at times, panic. Let alone having the notion of being able to articulate and express, within a discussion, how someone or something is making you feel, good or bad. This can be the same situation for many of our children – some children…