Course offers support to build stronger relationships between parents and children

The e-learning opportunity is available for parents of babies right though to teenage kids
Course offers support to build stronger relationships between parents and children

A two-way ‘serve and return’ style of communicating is highly important to the parent-child relationship.

Within minutes of logging onto Tusla’s new parenting e-learning course, I discover that a two-way ‘serve and return’ style of communicating is highly important to the parent-child relationship – Baby makes sounds and movements, the parent responds with more sounds and movements, and so on.

I learn that two in three children have imaginary friends and that these invisible (to our eyes) characters are a great way for our child to express feelings, as well as a playmate to practice social skills with.

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