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Booklets and information sheets

Booklet on understanding and responding to children’s behaviour in the early years

This booklet provides positive parenting information on how you can understand and respond to your child's emotions and behaviours throughout their development.

Managing Big Feelings and Big Behaviours

This handy sheet gives useful information on what to do when your child has a tantrum.

Managing biting

Tips and advice to tackle biting.

Managing potty training

Useful tips for toilet and potty training and suggestions for helping them stay dry at night time.

Understanding why your child’s brain is so amazing

This handy sheet provides information on how your baby’s brain develops and what your baby’s brain needs to develop well.

Understanding and responding to a crying baby

Helpful suggestions to cope with a crying baby and how to manage stress.

Understanding and soothing a crying toddler

Advice on how to understand and sooth a crying toddler.

Managing shopping trips

Suggestions on making that shopping trip less stressful with your little ones.

Managing mealtimes

This helpful sheet provides information on managing mealtimes and dealing with choosy and messy eaters.

Managing bedtime

This handy sheet gives useful information on creating a bedtime routine and helping to reduce stress.

Managing bathtimes

This handy sheet provides information on managing bathtimes with your little ones from birth to age 3.

Ten tips to help you support your child's development (0 to 4)

Find out what you can do as a parent to help your child’s development.

Understanding and responding to children’s behaviour

Advice to help you support your child's emotions and behaviour throughout their development.

Little Book of Feelings

Helping your child to understand and name their feelings is a great way of helping them deal and cope with their emotions.

Take time to think about how you respond to tricky or unwanted behaviour

Advice on how to take time to think about how you respond to tricky or unwanted behaviour.

Model the behaviour you want to see more of

Advice on how to be your child’s role model.

Make time for praise

Helpful suggestions to encourage positive behaviour.

Positive parenting top tips: 0 to 7 years

Top tips for using reward charts

Reward charts can be used to encourage and praise your child for positive behaviour.

Supporting your child if one parent lives or works away

This handy sheet provides some hints and tips to support your child when one parent lives or works away from where the child is based.

Supporting your child to make friends

This handy sheet provides some hints and tips to help support your child to make friends.

Supporting your child to learn how to share

This handy sheet provides some hints and tips to support your child to learn how to share.

Supporting a child when they start nursery or school

This handy sheet provides some hints and tips to support a child when they start nursery or reception for the first time.

Routines

Here are tips for making routines fun and effective.

Balancing Screen Time

Here are tips on how to limit screen time, with as little stress as possible.

Helping children to cope with bereavement

Here are some helpful tips to follow, for parents or caregivers, seeking to support a grieving child.

Supporting children when a parent goes to prison

Some helpful advice on what to tell children and how to support them.

Top tips for parents with children 8-12 years of age

No matter what their age, our children always need our help, support and guidance to help them make the right choices in their life.

Positive parenting top tips: 8 to 18 years

Top tips for parents of teenagers

Advice to help you support your teenager’s emotions and behaviour throughout their development.

Top tips for staying positive in the winter

Help and advice as a parent for staying positive during the winter months.

Top tips for staying positive in spring/summer

Help and advice as a parent for staying positive during the spring/summer.

Top tips for looking after your wellbeing while working from home

Help and advice on supporting your mental wellbeing while working from home.

Make time to look after yourself and manage stress

Advice on how to make time to look after yourself and manage stress.

Taking care of you and your family: for parents

Advice and support for dealing with difficult circumstances.

Taking care of you and your family: for grandparents

Advice and support for helping your family with difficult circumstances.

Positive parenting top tips: alternative language versions

Other formats

We have translated our information sheets and booklet into ten community languages. The resources are available in the following languages:

  • Arabic
  • Bengali
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Czech
  • Pashto
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Somali

Electronic copies of the resources can be requested via our mailbox parenting@gov.wales.