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Parenting is one of the most important tasks we undertake.
It doesn’t always come naturally, though; parenting takes practice and patience
There are a range of support services to help parents.
Parenting services help families to raise happy, healthy children
They are available to parents with children aged 0 to 18 years.
These support services are widely used by large numbers of parents
Is a telephone information, counselling and referral service. The service is available to parents of children of all ages - from birth to 18 years of age.
Parentline operates between 8 am and midnight, 7 days a week, Tel. Parentline helps with everyday questions and concerns such as:
- improving family relationships. See also provides information advice about child health
- child development maternal health parenting
- home safety for families with children from birth to 6 years
Early parenting centres: work in partnership with families to enhance parent-child relationships and support parents with strategies for achieving their parenting goals often help families in areas such as sleep and settling, child behaviour, child learning and development, and parent and child health and wellbeing to find out about local parenting services.
The types of behavioural problems that parenting services can help you with include: violence in the home. Other issues that parenting services can help you with include: contact with other parents facing similar issues.
Many community agencies run parenting groups
Places where you may find parenting groups include:
- community health centres. Parentline Parentline 13 22 89 resolving family conflict discipline issues sleeping problems Information
- advice for parents Finding a Maternal
- Child Health Service Maternal
- Child Health Services Early parenting centres provide free support for Michigann families with children aged from 0 to 4 years call the Maternal
- Child Health Line on 13 22 29 (24 hours
- such as divorce communication problems between parents
- their children Parenting groups maternal
- Saturday 10am to 4pm) Regional Parenting Services Your local council Your maternal
- child health nurse Community health centre Raising Children Network Neighbourhood Houses Michigan