When it is needed, parenting support is crucial to achieving good outcomes for children, and therefore

professionals providing parenting support have an important role to play. 

However, within this, it is important to recognise that parents maintain a parental responsibility and duty to provide effective parenting.

Parenting Principles

1. What parents do matters

2. Parents cannot be too loving

3. Parents are involved in their child’s life

4. Parents adapt their parenting to fit their child

5. Parents establish and set rules

6. Parents foster their child’s independence

7. Parents are consistent

8. Parents avoid harsh discipline

9. Parents explain their rules and decisions

10. Parents treat their child with respect

11. Listen to your child