Parenting Issues

No matter how carefully you plan and look after your family, no matter how brilliantly you parent your children, there will come a time when "life" catches up with you and you find yourself dealing with difficult parenting or relationship issues such as bullying, hitting, problem behaviour, or perhaps the effect of a divorce on your children or a death in the family. We hope that you can find some help or inspiration below.

Children bring huge pleasure but also change the balance of a relationship. Couples may find themselves in conflict over differing views on parenting. The support of a trained and independent third party can help a couple negotiate differences and develop mutually agreed strategies for such things as boundary setting.

Home a War Zone? – Occasionally things can feel pretty bad and we lose confidence in our abilities as parents. Some children are extremely strong willed and determined and before long we can find we have a tiny tyrant who refuses to stay in bed/eat proper meals/behave appropriately etc. Or maybe our angelic child has turned overnight into the teenager from hell and we worry about what company they are keeping and what they are doing.