Free online guides to help parents feel more confident

Schools and settings may wish to disseminate the below to their parent communities:

All parents and carers of children aged 0-18 years old in Warwickshire can now access three FREE online guides, funded by the Smart Start Programme:

• Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby guide
• Understanding your baby guide
• Understanding your child guide (6 months to 18 yrs of age)

These guides have been designed by the NHS and are part of the acclaimed ‘Solihull Approach’ programme, which supports mums, dads and carers to build positive relationships with their infants and children.

The main aim of the guides is to help parents and carers to strengthen the emotional resilience and wellbeing of their infants and children - so they’re able to bounce back from life’s various challenges as they move toward adulthood.

The ‘Understanding your child’ guide - which is most relevant to schools - helps parents understand how their child is feeling, how parents respond, different styles of parenting and how to have fun together. It also looks at the importance of sleep, self-regulation and anger, and ways for parents to communicate effectively with their child.

Note: A resource pack for the promotion of the ‘Understanding your child’ guide is being developed for use by schools. It will be sent to all schools by half-term.

Each guide is suitable for parents, grandparents and other carers, and can be completed flexibly at a parent’s own pace.

To access these three guides and their related FREE access codes, please visit www.warwickshire.gov.uk/parentguides