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Parenting
From Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
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Parenting can be the most rewarding, yet sometimes challenging, experience.
This section provides links to evidenced-based parenting information, advice and courses that you can access online.
The World Health Organization has developed helpful tip sheets on parenting during the COVID-19 emergency.
The tip sheets are also available in over 70 different languages at covid19parenting.com.
The HSE has useful advice on looking after your relationship as a parent at this time and parenting advice for difficult days HSE.ie.
The National Parents Council noticeboard has daily tips and fun activities to try at home.
With the arrival of Covid-19, parents and families have had to change how they work and live. Safefood have worked with parenting expert Prof. John Sharry to share his practical advice and tips for parents and families during this time. Learn more at safefood.net.
For lots more helpful tools and advice on healthy eating, managing screen time and more check out Safefood.
Parenting24seven from Tusla offers helpful resources on what works best for children and families at different ages and stages.
Advice for parents of young children is available from mychild.ie.
If you have recently found out about your child’s disability or developmental delay you may find this site helpful www.informingfamilies.ie
The Informing Families website was developed by the Informing Families Project to provide a source of good quality, appropriate, accurate and up to date information to parents at the time of diagnosis.
The Middletown Centre for Autism is hosting twice weekly webinars with in house and international speakers and has developed a number of resources on helping children and young people manage during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Changing Lives Initiative is a community based initiative working to create a better understanding of ADHD and providing an intervention programme for families with children aged (3-7) experiencing behaviours consistent with ADHD.
The Changing Lives Initiative have launched an innovative App on ADHD to support families. The App helps families understand what ADHD is and provides practical strategies and tools for parents to use with their children.
Learn more at changinglivesinitiative.com.
You can access over 400 eLearning courses, including parenting courses, using your library barcode.
More information is available from Libraries Ireland.
