The HSE in Mayo has launched a new parenting programme called Common Sense Parenting, a skills-based programme in which parents develop practical and effective ways to enhance their parenting skills and strengthen their children’s potential and quality of life.
The Common Sense Parenting Programme helps parents to learn skills to encourage their children’s positive behaviour, discourage negative behaviour, and teach their children alternatives to problem behaviour. The six-week programme, which will involve weekly two-hour sessions at local venues throughout Mayo, supports families and children from preschool age to teenagers, and is being run in Mayo as part of the Mol an Óige Programme. Parents who participate on the programme will develop and learn specific skills to use when interacting with their children that will help set their children up for success in their adult lives.
The Common Sense Parenting Programme is delivered by Public Health Nurses for two- to five-year-olds and by a combined team of child and family care professionals across a wide range of disciplines for the six to 16 age group.
Any parent in Mayo with children aged between two and five years or between six and 16 years, who is interested in attending a Common Sense Parenting course, should contact Martina O’Kane on 094 902 5067 or email: [email protected], or Mary Everard on 087 260 1283; email: [email protected]
