Parenting Resources
We are here to help
If you are having difficulties caring for your children, help is available through the CAS and other community agencies.
We'll help you learn how to identify your strengths in order to provide a safe and loving environment for your children and help you deal with challenges such as anger and stress and develop skills for handling crisis.
It's always better to get help early, before problems get worse. Regardless of your background, and no matter what language you speak, help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
If you're worried about your children, or someone else's, don't hesitate to contact us.
Most parents who spank their children state they would prefer not to do so if they were confident of another form of discipline.
It takes practice, effort and determination to become a firm, clear and effective disciplinarian. It helps to keep in mind your goals and aims as a parent. We want our children to grow up to become respectful towards themselves and others, have empathy and compassion for others, be capable of problem solving and wise decision making, and to be capable of negotiation and compromise while able to deal with conflict.
Positive Discipline
Although the best time to teach is as soon as possible after an incident has occurred, the main priority is to gain control over your own anger. If angered by your children's misbehaviour, take deep breaths or a short break or "time out" for yourself. The teaching should be motivated by a desire to help the child learn a better behaviour, not motivated by hostility.