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Parents Together online parenting course
This course is for families with younger children
Reducing teen violence
Helping to reducing child exploitation and reducing the incidence of serious youth violence
Let’s Play online parenting course
Our course can help you create play ideas
Stepfamily house rules and boundaries
House rules and boundaries advice for new stepfamilies
Stepfamily living arrangements
Advice if you are looking to live together
Who is my real parent?
Talking to your child about their biological parent
Anxiety in young children
How to help your child manage their feelings
Building your child’s self-esteem
Helping your child build their self-esteem
Helping your child cope with traumatic events
Helping your child manage traumatic events
How to keep a work-life balance
Helping you manage your work-life balance
Wellbeing strategies for children and teens
Strategies to help boost your child’s wellbeing
Being both parents
Advice on being both parents when parenting alone
Contacting social services for support with your child
What to expect if you contact social services for support
When your child is taken into care
Advice when your child is taken into care
Maintaining contact with your child in care
Maintaining contact with your child in care
When social services are involved with your family
Advice if social services are involved with your family
Adopting stepchildren
A guide on the process of adopting stepchildren
Getting to know your stepchild
How to build relationships with stepchildren
Resolving arguments in a stepfamily
Managing conflict in your blended family
Residence orders
Advice to help you understand what a residence order is
Special guardianship orders
Understanding a special guardianship order
What is fostering
Advice if you are thinking of fostering
Parenting children with disabilities
Read our advice on parenting a child with disabilities
Fun things to try with disabled children
Advice on fun things to do with children with special needs
Sleep tips for parents with disabled children
Read our parent to parent tips
Parenting in same sex relationships
Advice for LGBTQ parents
Family routines
How to establish positive family routines
Keeping the kids occupied on a budget
How to have fun with kids on a budget
Making chores fun
Advice for getting children to help out with chores
Adopting a child
Find out who can adopt and what you need to do
Adoption support
Adoption support for parents and carers
Contacting birth parents
Helping your child to trace their birth parents
If your child is being adopted
Advice if your child is being adopted
School truancy
Advice on truancy, the law and support
Parents’ guide to social media and apps
Social media apps guide for parents
Appeal a school offer – Part three
Read part three of our appeals advice
Appeal a school offer – Part four
Read our the final part of our appeals advice
Sex education
Find out about sex and relationship education
Starting primary school
Helping your child’s transition into primary school
Starting secondary school
Supporting your child as they start secondary school
Support at school
Find out how to best support your child at school
Dealing with challenging behaviour
How to deal with challenging behaviour from your child
Dealing with pester power
Learn how to manage your child’s demands
Positive behaviour
Learn strategies that help with positive boundaries
Sibling rivalry
Are your children are arguing constantly?
Stealing and lying
Advice if your child has been lying or stealing
Violence in schools
Understanding the impact of school violence
Bedwetting
Getting support on managing bedwetting
How to help your child if they are overweight
Worried about your child’s weight gain?
Keeping your child safe
Tips to help keep your child safe
Children and sleepovers
Advice if your child is having a sleepover
Helping your child develop social skills
Supporting your child’s social skills
Understanding puberty
Supporting your child during puberty
School routine
A positive school routine can minimise stress
Home schooling your child
Read our advice if you are thinking of home schooling your child
Issues at school
Supporting your child if there are issues at school
Appeal a school offer – Part one
Read our appeals advice – part one
Appeal a school offer – Part two
Read part two of our appeals advice
Parental responsibility
Understanding parental responsibility
Renewing contact with children
How to renew contact with children after a separation
Keeping to your contact arrangements
Advice on contact with your child
What is co-parenting?
Understanding what is shared parenting
Contact with the other parent
Advice on contact with your ex-partner
Paternity tests
Advice on why you might want to get one and the steps to take
Changing a child’s name
Guidance on changing a child’s surname
Advice if your disabled child is bullied
Read our advice if your disabled child is being bullied
Bullying myths and facts
Understanding the myths around bullying
Overcoming bullying
Overcoming bullying and leaving the scars behind
Social bullying
Understanding the impact of social bullying
Verbal bullying
What steps you can take if you are being bullied
What is bullying
Understanding what is bullying and the signs
Racist bullying
Understanding how to deal with racist bullying
Different routines
How to work with your ex partner to parent together
Child maintenance
Guidance on child maintenance for separated parents
Making child arrangements
Arranging contact to see your children
Bullying at academies
What parents need to know about bullying at academies
Private and independent schools
Read our advice if the bullying is in a private or independent school
What to do if the school doesn’t resolve the bullying
Find out what your next steps are if the bullying hasn’t stopped
Effects of cyberbullying
Learn more about the impact of online bullying
Dealing with cyberbullying
How to deal with cyberbullying and get support
What is cyber bullying
Advice on how to protect yourself from online bullying
Bullying on social networks
Advice if you are worried about social network bullying
Bullying in sports clubs
Spotting the signs of bullying in sports clubs
Bullying and suicidal feelings
Read our supportive advice if you are worried about your child
How bullying affects children
How bullying can impact every aspect of a child’s life
Spotting the signs your child is being bullied
Spotting the signs of bullying in children
How to talk to your child about bullying
Talking to your child can help them open up
Bullying out of school hours
How to support a child who is being bullied outside of school
What to do if your child is a bully
It can be difficult to find out if your child has been bullying others
If your child is being bullied
How to help your child if they are being bullied
Why children bully
Understanding how and why a child is bullying can be key in helping to stop the bullying
Anti bullying week resources
Download our free anti bullying week assembly presentations, posters, flashcards and more
Anti bullying week videos
Watch our anti-bullying week videos
Anti bullying week posters
Download our free posters and help stand up to bullying
Contacting your child’s school about bullying
Read our advice on contacting the school about bullying
Making a complaint to school
Read our guidance on making a complaint to the school about the bullying
Anti Bullying Policy
Understanding what is an anti bullying policy
Asking to see your child’s school record
How to approach the school to request a copy of school records
Bullied by a teacher
How to tackle bullying from teaching staff
Moving school
Supporting your child if they want to change schools
Taking time off school because of bullying
Supporting your child if they have taken time away from school
Online parenting courses
Get support with parenting through our online parenting course