Parenting

Families Canada is pleased to have completed our “Supported Parents, Supportive Parenting” project at the end of 2022! This project was funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and aimed to expand the linguistic accessibility of the Nobody’s Perfect Parenting (NPP) program to diverse communities in Ontario. NPP is a facilitated parenting program for parents of …

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This blog post was guest written by Jessica Pratezina, MA, PhD Student at the University of Victoria. This article discusses the struggle to share housework and childcare equally and fairly and how there is a current lack of tools for family support practitioners to help heterosexual couples work towards a more equal relationship.   After my …

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In this blog post guest writer Angel Monks summarizes information presented by Isabelle Vinet, Executive Director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, and Michel Boivin, Professor of Psychology at Laval University, in the webinar Early Childhood Development in a Time of Pandemic: Peer Relations. This webinar shared 6 ways educators and parents …

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In this blog post, guest writer Angel Monks summarizes information presented by Isabelle Vinet, Executive Director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, in the webinar Early Childhood Development in a Time of Pandemic: Emotional Competence. Isabelle Vinet shared 9 strategies that family support practitioners can use to promote childhood emotional competence skills.    …

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Parenting During a Pandemic English | Français   This week, our guest writer, Mary Tountas, Public Health Nurse with Toronto Public Health and Nobody’s Perfect parenting program Master Trainer, shares her reflections on parenting during a pandemic. All parents and caregivers of children under 6 years old deserve a medal for having coped with these …

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