Positive Parenting Strategies

Positive parenting strategies include:

• Building strong, nurturing family relationships and good communication.
• Helping parents feel more confident and competent. As a result, parents are less depressed, less stressed, and have less conflict with their partners over parenting issues.
• Using everyday situations and opportunities to help children learn pro-social skills and motivate them to do their best.
• Planning ahead to prevent problems.
• Staying calm and responding consistently and assertively when problems do occur.
• Teaching children to regulate their own behaviour and emotions in constructive and non-harmful ways.
• Looking after yourself as a parent (or grandparent, or other care-giver), including by learning more about regulating your own thoughts, feelings and behaviour to reduce stress.