Tag: Community
Parents Corner: Infant Mental Health Awareness Week: Can You Spoil a Baby?
The short answer is “no”! Even though this has long been a worry for new parents, the current science reassures us that there is no way to spoil baby. Babies who receive warm, sensitive, and respo...
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Parent’s Corner: How to Tell the Difference between Bullying and Fighting
Do you know the difference between bullying and fighting? Researchers have found that many parents struggle to know when it’s bullying or just everyday quarrels between friends, classmates, or sibli...
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In 12 months, up to 50 Aboriginal families positively impacted by outreach days
NCNS is o...
Read More...Chat with Monica about all things Parenting
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Parents Corner: Responding to Children’s Good Behaviour
Many parenting articles talk about dealing with difficult behaviour and yet, the ways we respond to children’s positive behaviour is just as important. ...
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Generation Vape: How to Talk to your Teen about the Risks of E-Cigarettes ...
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How to Support a Very, Very Upset Child Oct 26, 2022 With Summer holidays fast approaching and families gathering at local beaches and swim...
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Keep Watch: Always Supervise Children near Water Nov 29, 2022 There are few more demanding parenting moments t...
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Parental burnout is real, and we need to take it seriously
Parental burnout is real, and we need to take it seriously To feel ‘burnt out’ is to feel over-extended, exhausted, and that you nothing left to give. The feeling of ‘burnou...
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Parents Corner: Creating Family Rules: Do’s and Don’ts
Family Rules helps everyone get along better. They help set the standard for behaviour in the home and contribute to a more positive emotional climate. So, why not get started on creating your own Fam...
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NCNS Snow Trip 2022
NCNS has been incredibly fortunate to be friends with the amazing people at Burton Snowboards....
Read More...Humility, a lost key to leadership
There are 3 things that struck me when talking with Reece: he’s polite; he’s articulate; he loves his community of Cranebrook and he’s humble. Okay that’s four, but it was his humility that...
Read More...Message from the Manager 2015
2015 has certainly been a BIG year – and I’d like to share some of my highlights! New Projects This year saw the Work for the Dole at Kooly program kick off, with f...
Read More...Introducing – CRANEBROOK CONNECTS!
The Cranebrook Collective Impact Project moves to its next stage! With hundreds of entries, from primary schools, high schools, services and community members, our Name Our Project competition gave...
Read More...Mission Australia’s Annual Youth Survey
Mission Australia’s Youth Survey is the nation’s largest online annual ‘temperature check’ of teenagers aged between 15 and 19. Run every year, this highly influential survey gives young peopl...
Read More...Women of Penrith – they made a difference!
The Taste of Everything Women’s Workshops is one of the groups that run out of the Floribunda Community Centre at Glenmore Park. It was created around four years ago, as an opportunity for women to ...
Read More...Lessons learned from an outreach session
As a Community Development Worker, I want to make a change. I want to help those that are struggling, with big or small struggles – I’m not picky. Some of those that are struggling in our commu...
Read More...5th Annual NAIDOC Cup
5 years ago, NCNS worker, Donna Hancock, came up with the idea to show off the natural athletic skills of our Aboriginal kids and their friends, bring schools together, learn about culture, and create...
Read More...NAIDOC Week 2015
Friday, 10 July, was a chilly, chilly morning, but that didn’t put the slightest dent in the NAIDOC Week event at Jamison Park. NAIDOC Week is always a time for celebration at NCNS, and NAIDOC at Ja...
Read More...National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day 2014
Each year on 4th August is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day, and this year we celebrated at Kooly with kids from local playgroups and preschools. National Aboriginal an...
Read More...Community Bank – Coming to Penrith Soon!
If you follow our blog, it's likely that you are someone who has an interest in building community, making best use of every little way we can make our community better, and you believe in Penrith. Li...
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