Resources

The Parenting Puzzle - How to Get the Best out of Family Life
Candida Hunt in consultation with Annette Mountford MBE

An illustrated guide full of practical activities for parents/carers and for those supporting families. It is the course handbook for parents attending Nurturing Programme courses, and also a popular stand-alone guide to emotionally literate parenting. Click here to find out more.

248 pages, 130 cartoon sequences, ISBN 0-9544709-0-7

£16.99 (includes postage)

The Nurturing Game

A colourful board game for children and adults, with activities that help players listen and talk, explore their feelings, think about making positive choices, and discover more about themselves and others as they take turns to follow the path through the park.

Game board, 4 sets of 32 cards, 6 tokens, dice

£25 (plus £2.50 postage)

The Parenting Puzzle DVD

This new animated DVD clearly depicts the principles of The Nurturing Programme for visual learners or those with literacy or learning problems. It contains 10 episodes featuring the Bassett and the Jones families and includes key concepts such as empathy, praise, boundaries and appropriate expectations. It can be used in group or individual sessions.

Click YouTube to view the second session on Time Out, Boundaries and Consistency.

£12 (plus £1 postage)

Ask It/Tell It

A question-and-answer card game that encourages players to become more aware of what they think, the way they feel and how to behave. It builds confidence as players learn to talk about themselves and listen to others.

Set of 52 cards

£12 (plus £2.25 postage)

The Nurturing Programme in Action -
How to Get the Best out of School Life

A 50-minute film showing how the Nurturing Programme supports effective teaching and learning. The first part demonstrates a consistent, positive approach throughout the school day; the second part illustrates how to lead Circle Time creatively and sensitively as part of the PSHE and Citizenship curriculum.

Available on DVD and Video

£12 (plus £1 postage)

Feeling Faces

Includes 15 new 5 - 92 year old photographs and 6 photos of
0 - 5 your olds from our original pack

A series of photographs featuring babies, young children and adults designed to develop empathy through reading facial expressions.

Set of 21 photographs, 356mm x 282mm

£18 (plus £3.00 postage)

Islamic Values and The Parenting Puzzle

This booklet quotes and analyses extracts from the Quran, hadiths and The Parenting Puzzle, demonstrating how Family Links' Nurturing Programme is in tune with Islamic religious beliefs.

It is not a modified version of the Nurturing Programme and should only be used with The Parenting Puzzle on an approved parenting course. More

£7.50 (plus £1 postage)

The Parenting Puzzle Booklet (Polish)

A compact shortened version of The Parenting Puzzle. Contains illustrations with pages in English and the corresponding pages translated into Polish.

A5, 56 pages

£4 (plus £1 postage)

The Parenting Puzzle Booklet (Urdu)

A compact shortened version of The Parenting Puzzle. Contains illustrations with 27 pages in English and the corresponding pages translated into Urdu.

A5, 56 pages

£4 (plus £1 postage)

Magnets

A set of four magnets with slogans “Praise is magic”, “DOs work better than DON’Ts”, “Have I nurtured myself today?” and “What we pay attention to is what we get more of”.  Ideal as group dividers or gifts at parent groups.

Set of 20 magnets, five magnets of each four designs, 48mm x 87mm

£8 (plus £1 postage)

Available only with training