Programmes for Parents

White Water Years (WWY)

A learning and support group, developed by Jigsaw Whanganui, for parents and caregivers of pre-teens and teens.  It provides ways for us to explore and discover how we can parent alongside our tamariki and children as they grow through their teen years.

It aims to build skills and confidence in areas such as:

• Relationship and connection with our teens
• Respectful communication in our whānau
• Strategies to respond to our teens needs
• Understanding developmental stages of teens

Building Awesome Whānau (BAW)

A learning and support group for whānau caring for tamariki and children 0-12 years that draws on the unique wisdoms of Aotearoa. It provides space for whānau to share experiences and weave these together with a resource packed with stories and practical strategies. Resource developed by Parenting Place NZ

The group will explore:

• Laying the foundations – Building your family on aroha
• Parents are the roof – Protecting your whānau
• The walls of the whare – Boundaries to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out
• Keeping it sweet – Atmosphere is everything!
• Cool korero – Communication
• Outside the whare – Living in the big wide world