Parenting Advice
Type a key word into our search field on the top right of your screen or browse parenting advice below. If there’s a topic we haven’t covered please write and ask us – we’d love to add more articles to help parents who’d like advice.
Advice that does no harm
With the abundance of advice and ‘how to guides’ on the internet, it’s vital that parents have access to information and advice that is evidence based and most importantly, advice that works!
We all know that doctors take an oath to ‘do no harm’. Similarly, our parenting advice is based on this same mantra. In all the advice we give, we hold the relationship between parent and child as the key to change. We honour the vital and irreplaceable role that parents have to nurture and grow their children. We draw on the latest neuroscience-science research and put this in user-friendly language to enable parents to apply the learning to their children.
About us
We are family therapists who have been working with families, mostly in early childhood, for over 25 years.
Ask us a question
Please write to us and ask if you’d like advice on a topic we haven’t covered on this website. We’d love to hear from you. Be sure to use our search engine above.
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Making Sense of Food Labels
A large supermarket has over 20,000 stock items on their shelves. With such variety available it’s important you know how…
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New Zealand Soil, it’s nutrients and your child’s health
This article examines child health in New Zealand by looking at areas we have soil nutrient deficiencies. Our soil produces…
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Childcare advantages and disadvantages
Is childcare good or bad for my child? We often get asked questions like: is childcare good for my child’s…
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Emergency Survival Kit
Emergency Survival Kit Checklist An Emergency Survival kit is what you need if disaster strikes at home and you have…
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Common Childhood Challenges
Part III of the Power to Parent series focuses on the typical challenges of parenting. Every child gets stuck from…
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Emergency Evacuation Kit
An emergency evacuation kit is for when you must abandon your home (e.g home is unsafe to live in like…
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Dealing with Grief
Helping your child cope with grief: As much as we want to shelter our children from unpleasant experiences, death is…
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