Parent Education Programs

The Infants’ Home runs a number of education and support programs each year to provide parents and carers with information and support on aspects of parenting, as well as the social, emotional and communication tools to help develop their parenting skills. Our parenting courses are often run in collaboration with external expert agencies.

The courses help parents to be more sensitive to their child’s emotions and more able to positively guide their behaviour, better understand their child’s needs, and to be calm and more purposeful in their play and interactions with their child.

Designed for parents/carers with children aged 0-8. Participants will learn ways to respond to their child‛s emotional needs and strengthen their bond with their child.

Participants will learn:
• How to understand your child‛s emotional world by learning to read their emotional needs.
• How to support your child‛s ability to manage emotions
• How to enhance the development of your child‛s self esteem

Term 3 2026 Program Details:

Dates: Thursdays, 30 July to 17 September (8 Weeks)
Time: 10.00am–12.00pm
Location:  The Infants’ Home, 17 Henry Street, Ashfield
Cost: FREE.

Babies aged 0-6 months (non-mobile) are welcome to attend with their parent/carer. Child-minding is not available for older children.

Register here.

Bringing Up Great Kids

Bringing Up Great Kids is for parents and carers of children aged birth to 12 years. The program supports the development of mindful and positive relationships between parents/carers and children through interactive activities and discussions. It will support parents and carers to:

• Learn more about the origins of their own parenting style and how this can become more effective
• Identify the important messages they want to convey to their children and how to achieve this
• Learn about brain development in children and its influence on their thoughts, feelings and behaviour
• Understand the meaning of children’s behaviour
• Discover how to overcome some of the obstacles that may be getting in the way of being the kind of parents they would like to be
• Discover ways for them to take care of themselves and to find support when they need it.

Tuning in to Kids

Tuning in to Kids is a six-week program for parents and carers of children aged 3 to 8 years.

Would you like to:

• Be better at talking with your child?
• Understand your child better?
• Help your child to learn to manage their emotions?
• Help to prevent challenging behaviours in your child?
• Teach your child how to deal with conflict?
• Support your child to develop emotional intelligence?

Tuning in to Kids shows you how to help your child develop their emotional intelligence.

Circle of Security

Circle of Security is an eight-week program for parents and carers of children aged birth to 8 years.    

All parents can feel lost or unsure about what their child might need from them at times. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking of you. The Circle of Security Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.  

This program can help parents and carers to:

• Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read their emotional needs  
• Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions  
• Enhance the development of their child’s self esteem  
• Honour their innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.