Our Leaflets
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Your new baby, your family and you
Becoming a parent stirs up feelings, hopes and fears which can take you by surprise. Knowing this could happen may help you manage these thoughts and feelings. -
Crying and sleeping in the first months of life
Crying and sleeping problems can be very common in the first year of life. This leaflet explains why this is so. Gives straightforward advice for parents. -
Post natal depression – a problem for all the family
Having a baby is meant to be the most exciting and joyful experience you'll ever have. But you may be surprised and alarmed to experience feelings you hadn't expected. This leaflet helps you to understand why some mothers experience post-natal depression, how it feels and its effects on the baby. -
Tempers and tears in the twos and threes
Two and three year olds may show feelings of extreme fear, distress or anger. These may seem unreasonable, but they should not be ignored. -
Sibling rivalry: growing up with a new brother or sister
This leaflet helps parents understand how siblings react to a new child in the family and their own feelings about coping with the demanding tasks ahead. -
Separations and changes in the early years
Describes the separations experienced by mother and baby from birth itself to weaning, returning to work and starting playgroup or school. -
Understanding your overactive child
Parents and teachers can be troubled by children who exhibit hyperactivity, lack of concentration and impulsiveness. This leaflet looks at how parents, schools and other professionals can work together to tackle the child's distress. -
The child’s experience of primary school
This leaflet will help parents and carers think about the new experiences and challenges children face when they go to school, from coping with the work to competition and bullying. -
Supporting teenagers
Designed to help parents and carers of young people aged 11 to 16 think about the difficulties and changes they may experience in their relationship with young people in their early and middle teens and about some of the problems children of this age face. -
Fathers
This leaflet is written to help families and carers think about the role of fathers in the lives of children including: the importance of fathers being involved with their children, preparing for the birth, adjusting to life as a father, the relationships between stepfathers, foster fathers, adoptive fathers and their children. -
Divorce and separation: helping children and parents cope
This leaflet is about some of the helpful ways people have found to manage their way through divorce and separation where children are involved. -
Grandparents and the extended family
This leaflet discusses the importance of wider family relationships for families and their children, including: the grandchild's view, what grandparents contribute, grandparents who bring up their grandchildren and helping to making relationships work well. -
Bereavement – helping parents and children cope when someone close to them dies
How can you help your child? What if you are grieving too? What about very young children? These are some of the questions that this leaflet tries to address. -
Poster/leaflet – Hold it and count to ten
An amusing illustrated guide to keeping your head when the little ones have lost theirs. -
Booklet – Understanding childhood, key stages in your child’s emotional development from birth to adulthood
What is 'normal' development? This booklet is about understanding stages in ordinary emotional development. To help parents and those who work with children and families to make sense of children's behaviour and give greater confidence in their own resources.
