The programme for parents
Lifestart has 30 years’ experience in helping people develop as parents. Our work focuses on the building blocks of child development: parent/child attachment, bonding and interaction, language development, play and most of all, love. Find out here what our parents think of our work.
The Growing Child
Parents
The Growing Child gives an easy and enjoyable step-by-step guide to how children develop
Organisations
The Growing Child is available as a franchise to organisations supporting children and their families
Out of the range of good quality parenting programmes available, the Lifestart programme is highly cost effective and for a structured evidence-based programme, is sufficiently flexible at the point of delivery to allow for adaptation in response to need
My son Braidan began on the Lifestart programme when he was 6 months old. Braidan turned 3 on 24 November 2012 and I cannot put into words just how valuable the programme has been to his overall development.
Lifestart has been a priceless asset to our family life, I have received the support every 1st time mum needs to help my child develop to the best of his ability and already at 3 years old his advanced skills are shining through.
I just want commend you and the Lifestart Programme as after attending a Nursery meeting at School, discussing curriculum, child development and what types of ‘play’ are encouraged, the topics covered in the programme and the advice you give are so relevant and on point. Thank you.
Thank you Lifestart Programme Team for your knowledge, support and all hard work put into it. You are really helping us (parents) now and truly creating a better future for our children by helping them to become better human beings.
The programme was so convenient with the family visitor calling to my home and the family visitor always scheduled the appointments that suited me.
Just to let you know and say thanks for a little girl whom you saw, and I had been seeing at my clinic. The tasks and skills that the Lifestart worker instructed mum with and the Naonra class etc. has helped [name removed] greatly and she has improved an awful lot…
Parenting Tips
Perfect Parent – We wish!
‘There is no such thing as a perfect Parent. So just be a real one’. Most of what we talk about we take from our online ‘Growing Child’ which focus on the development milestones on a month by month basis. Today I am going to look at topics covered around the 15 month stage of your little one. When you sit back and look at him you will be amazed by how much he has grown. In our online issue [...]
Six months with SOOC and the Lifestart Team
Hi, I'm Marina, the wee german intern from Lifestart. I am studying social work in Germany and the placement is part of my studies. When I am back in Germany I have to study one more year to finish my bachelor. I still don’t know what I want to do after my graduation. But the SOOC programme made me very keen to continue working with parents and I would love to take the project to Germany. Together with the wonderful [...]
Tumbling Towards Two – Good Discipline Starts at Home
Happy Friday our lovely followers … a little happy jump in our hearts as we are approaching the end of January. We are slowly leaving winter months and approaching the Spring months which I just love. The evenings are getting that wee bit brighter each day and the mornings are getting slightly easier to get out of bed. The sight of the first daffodil bulb peeping through the soil, birds chirping in the morning, buds of spring showing their heads [...]
No, no, no! What children hear!
What to do when your young toddler who now has lots of words but just says NO, NO, NO! It seems to be their new favourite word. Well, this may be because to them it seems to be our favourite word. I certainly remember when my daughter turned 2 going through a phase and it didn’t matter where or what we were doing everything was NO! Trying to figure out why she was constantly using this word, thankfully didn’t take [...]