Galway has the highest proportion of migrants of any region in Ireland, and as such many of us don’t have parents, family or school friends to fall back on for support when we go through the transition to parenthood and the sometimes lonely years of having young children. Information given by professionals, friends, colleagues, family and websites can all contradict, and it can be hard to know what to do.
This website is being written based on evidence based research, but research that is real world parent tested research. Research by psychologists, social workers, neuroscientists, infant and child mental health professionals, speech and language therapists, lactation consultants, social scientists and parents. The researchers and practitioners involved and represented on this website; local and national and international, all have a strong bias towards mindful and respectful relationships between children and parents. No one on this page will advise you to ignore a crying child, smack, threaten or put them in time out. We work on the premise that children, even babies, are people too. But that can be hard to put into practice, we know that too. So we have found and written the best advice and support in creating a new mindset with respect at heart, respect going both ways.
Tara Durkin is a mother of three, a birth and postpartum doula, an Antenatal Ireland childbirth educator (Group & 1:1 Classes) and Cuidiú breastfeeding counsellor, and a Baby Bonding practitioner based in Shantalla, Galway city. Read more…
Olwen Rowe is passionate about exploring with parents how they can bring confidence and ease to their parenting journey. She is a babywearing educator, a Baby Bonding practitioner and a voluntary breastfeeding counsellor. Olwen is especially Read more…
Linsey McNelis is an Accredited Play Therapist with over 10 yearsexperience working with children as a therapist. She holds an honours degree and a higher diploma in Psychology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, a Read more…
Dr. Laura Markham was the person who introduced me to gentle parenting with her relationship based model, focusing on building relationships over behaviour management. She is as a Clinical Psychologist and the author of the books: Read more…
No doubt if you look at Parenting Resources on the internet you will have stumbled across quotes from Pam Leo’s seminal book, Connection Parenting. It was one the first books published that went against the flow Read more…
This Multi Award Winning Film Documentary is not been shown on Network TV or in Cinema ‘THE CHILD MAY NOT REMEMBER, BUT THE BODY REMEMBERS.’ “Researchers have recently discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by Read more…
Are you looking for a list of good parenting books? Ones that will never advise you to do anything unloving or that goes against your instincts as a parent to care for and connect with Read more…
A woman and website who I would consider my guide as I strive to be a better parent: Robin Einzig. This link will take you to one of her most popular and challenging articles titled Read more…
We believe that every member of a family needs to be supported, cared for and respected. When this is done families can flourish and provide a fertile environment for fostering the development of healthy, content Read more…