Tag: parenting
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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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...
Read More...Choosing consequences
Narelle Smith, our parenting expert, recently posted this article to her blog (https://handsheartsminds.wordpress.com): What have I been talking with parents about this past month? A l...
Read More...Quirky Kids
The following article appeared in the July issue of the monthly Gazettes distributed throughout Penrith. Do you have a child who is different? A quirky kid? He or she does things d...
Read More...Resilience
This article appeared in the June 2015 issue of the Gazette newspapers which are distributed throughout the Penrith area. ‘Resilience’ is a bit of a buzz word these days. We...
Read More...Hugs
Humans need hugs. Touch is so important that infants that have all of their needs met but don’t get hugs, affection, eye contact, are at risk of developing a condition called ‘failure to thri...
Read More...The effects of family violence on children
Do you know a child living in a home where there is a lot of yelling and swearing, throwing things, pushing or hitting? This is called family violence. However, family violence is much more ...
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Casework at NCNS
At NCNS, a large proportion of our work is casework for vulnerable children, young people and families. We are fortunate to have created partnerships with Wesley Mission and Bridging the Gap to be abl...
Read More...Connection Rituals
If your child is having trouble separating from you into childcare or school, or even to family and friends, sometimes it helps to have a ‘connection ritual’. My youngest boy taught me the impo...
Read More...Helping break the stigma and provide support for young mums
In a current research paper...
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