Having friends provides support and promotes social skills, along with increased positive mental health and well-being.
Children’s friendships are very important for their social and emotional development. Parents and carers have an important role to play in helping children develop friendships.
Here are some top tips from Parenting NI for helping your child develop friendship skills, download the full guide here: https://www.parentingni.org/…/friendship-skills-top…
The summer holidays are here so now is a good time to think about play.
One of Parenting NI’s podcasts episodes focuses on the importance of play. They spoke to Laura Perry & Aidan Burns from PlayBoard NI about why play is so important for children’s development.
Find out all the facts and listen here: https://parentingni.podbean.com/…/ep-24-importance-of…/
The Parent Participation Service recognizes the importance of designing services with parents using their voice and the skills of practitioners together to improve services. We understand the vital role that parents have in creating improved outcomes for children and families. We are here to support parents to influence the activities of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) and to support service providers to develop and improve co-production practice with parents.
We facilitated an informative direct participation event with Arabic speaking
parents from the N.I. Family Muslim Association exploring their experiences of the
education system in NI. See infographic below of the keypoints that were captured that will be shared with Outcomes Groups for inclusion in future planning.
We have a lovely July message of the month: “Less watching, more talking… put everything away and just sing, talk and play”
This month we want to encourage parents and families to minimise screen time and spend time playing and talking with their children.
Please use the link below which will take you to:
CLICK ON LINK TO ACCESS VIDEO AND RESOURCES HERE à https://view.pagetiger.com/july1/1
Please share the message of the month information with your staff team and also with your parents/families. We will be sharing more tips and advice linked to the message of the month on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.
Please also note that free training for parents or anyone working with children between 0 and 6 years old is available and can be booked below. (July dates available, keep an eye on the HKT Facebook page for Aug/Sept dates). ‘Basic Awareness’ around speech, language & communication is the first session and Level 1 is a next steps session looking at speech & language milestones, referring a child to Speech Therapy and tips for supporting children with difficulties in the home or their setting:
https://view.pagetiger.com/basic-awareness-webinar-training-dates/help-kids-talk-training
