Parenting

This exercise asks young people to consider the things that a baby needs to be safe, healthy and happy.

This exercise considers the emotional and physical preparation required to become a parent.

This exercise encourages young people to explore the positive and negative aspects of parenting and promotes discussion.

This is an activity where young people review positive and negative media articles about young people and discuss their own values and attitudes.

This is a warm up activity session that starts to question what young people mean by the concept of “family” and demonstrate that families are made up of different relationships that can change and evolve over time.

This session encourages young people to look at the financial implications of becoming a parent over the first year of a baby’s life.

To encourage discussion around how parents are depicted in newspapers and magazines and produce an advert for “parenthood”.

The aim of this activity is to promote discussion around parenting styles and responsibilities.

This warm up explores young people’s beliefs and values around what it means to be a parent.

This exercise explores passive, assertive and aggressive behaviour and helps young people develop assertive responses to stressful situations.