Nursery World - Video helps avoid family meltdown

Advice on coping with the stresses and strains of parenthood was launched last week by the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI). A booklet and video entitled 'From Breakfast to Bedtime', which is endorsed by the Department of Health and backed by Tesco supermarkets, includes tips on how to handle 'meltdown moments' from the early morning school rush to tantrums in the supermarket.

A booklet and video entitled 'From Breakfast to Bedtime', which is endorsed by the Department of Health and backed by Tesco supermarkets, includes tips on how to handle 'meltdown moments' from the early morning school rush to tantrums in the supermarket.

NFPI chief executive Mary McLeod said, 'Our research has shown that parents want to hear from other parents in the same situation about what works for them. It's easy for parents to feel undermined by pictures of perfect show-homes with sparkling parents and children, and all the sometimes contradictory advice about how to be the perfect parent.

'Instead, parents want to know that the advice of childcare experts has been put to the test by people they regard as the true experts on raising children -other parents.'

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