Cornwall Council

Empowered Parenting Podcast - Domestic Abuse Support in Cornwall Council

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:05:10 GMT

In today’s episode, we are answering a listener’s question about the support available for families who are experiencing or who have experienced domestic abuse. We’re joined by a wonderful guest to talk about the support on offer and how to connect to that support.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Child Development: from Birth to Adolescence - Sleep

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:04:44 GMT

In today’s episode, we explore a topic that can be a common challenge for families: sleep. We look at why sleep is so important and how we can help children with bedtimes, getting to sleep and getting a good night’s sleep.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast – Child Development: from Birth to Adolescence – Talking to young people about drugs and alcohol with YZUP

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:33:30 GMT

Today we are joined by Jodie from YZUP with tips and advice about how to talk with your young person about drugs and substances, including where to go for more information and support.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast: Child Development: from Birth to Adolescence – Homework

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:04:52 GMT

In today’s podcast, the parenting team talks to us about homework battles and how to support your children with their homework.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Child Development: from Birth to Adolescents – Potty Training

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:57:41 GMT

Today’s episode topic was suggested to us by a parent who asked for top tips and strategies to support with potty training. To answer some Frequently Asked Questions about potty training, we are joined by members of the parenting and health visiting teams to offer some ideas and thoughts.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast – Child Development: from Birth to Adolescence: how exercise supports brain growth

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:53:19 GMT

In today’s podcast, we will start our new series all about child development to explore how physical activity helps children learn and how parents can support their children to integrate physical activity into their daily lives.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Mindfulness

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:25:47 GMT

Join us for an episode where we are joined by a special guest from the Educational Psychology team to tell us all about Mindfulness and how it can support both parents and children.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Journey to Parenthood: Safer Sleep

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:23:33 GMT

This week we are joined by special guests to talk to us about a really important topic: safer sleep. They will be talking to us about the importance of safe sleep and some of the key messages and recommendations for parents and carers to think about when planning how their babies will sleep, as well as how they can work with their little one’s early years setting to support safer sleep in the setting too.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Say No to Hate

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:57:12 GMT

This week we are joined by special guests for a one-off episode with an update from the Say No to Hate conference in Cornwall.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Bereavement and Loss

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:18:15 GMT

This week is Children’s Grief Awareness Week, so this week we are joined by Polly from Penhaligon’s Friends and Sally from the Educational Psychology Service to talk about how children understanding of loss changes as they develop and how we can support children who have experienced bereavement, as well as looking after ourselves as parents through grief.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - English as an Additional Language

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:45:24 GMT

Today our guests are from a variety of teams who have been working together with schools to support children and families who have English as an Additional Language. We hear more about their work and how schools and parents can support children who have English as an Additional Language.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Children’s Rights

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:50:43 GMT

For today’s podcast, we are joined by a Children’s Rights Officer from Cornwall Council to learn all about children’s rights and how knowing about them can help us as a parents, as well as hearing about some great projects and resources that support parents, carers, children and young people recognise and support children’s rights and have their voices heard in Cornwall.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Cornwall Libraries’ digital offer

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:53:42 GMT

In today’s episode, we hear all about the digital offer from Cornwall Libraries – all free resources that parents and carers can access including e-books, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers and much more…

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Early Maths Development

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:43:19 GMT

In previous podcast episodes we have talked about how to support little ones in their language and literacy development, so this week we are joined by an Educational Psychologist to talk all about early maths development and how parents and carers can support their little one learning about numbers, shapes and patterns.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - National Literacy Trust – Take 10 to Read

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:25:13 GMT

On Friday 10th October, for World Mental Health Day, the National Literacy Trust are encouraging everyone to ‘Take 10 to Read’. Today, we are joined by Jo from the National Literacy Trust in Cornwall to tell us more about the campaign and to inspire us all the take 10 to read and boost our own wellbeing.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Headstart Kernow

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:58:37 GMT

In the summer we were joined on a previous podcast by Kate from Headstart Kernow who gave us an overview of what Headstart Kernow offers, but there was so much more we could have talked about. So, this week we are joined by Ness and Claire to tell us more about Headstart Kernow and what they offer to families.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - How to handle your child’s anger

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:22:29 GMT

For this week’s podcast, we were sent a topic suggestion by a parent: ‘how to handle your child’s anger’ so this week, we are joined by Parenting Workers Lucy and Emily to discuss this topic and find out more about what anger is, how we help children regulate their emotions and learn about their feelings.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Saying no!

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:20:31 GMT

For this week’s podcast, we were sent a topic suggestion by a parent: ‘Saying no and how to deal with the backlash’ so this week, we are joined by Senior Parenting Worker Kyra to discuss this topic and get her thoughts on tips and strategies to say no and support children with their big feelings about hearing the word ‘no’.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast -Nurturing New Beginnings: Back-to-school

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:17:14 GMT

In the final episode of the Nurturing New Beginnings series, we are joined by Cat, a Senior Parenting Worker for some top tips and strategies to support both parents and children with the transition back-to-school after the summer holidays.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Nurturing New Beginnings: Step Up to Secondary School with Kooth

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:11:02 GMT

In the next episode of the mini-series focused on transitions we are focused again on starting secondary school. This time we will joined by Peta from Kooth, who will be sharing thoughts and ideas in particular around supporting your young person’s emotional wellbeing and any worries they might have about the change.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Nurturing New Beginnings: Step Up to Secondary School with Headstart Kernow

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:00:36 GMT

In the latest episode of the mini-series focused on transitions we are going to be focusing on starting secondary school. This time we will joined by Kate from Headstart Kernow, who will be sharing tips, strategies and resources for how parents can support their young person with the transition to secondary school.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Nurturing New Beginnings: Step Into Primary School Part 2

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:51:10 GMT

Over the summer holidays, we will be taking a look at school transitions. This week, we continue our conversation with Parenting Workers about the transition to starting primary school, this time focused on managing emotions around starting school and how routines and visual timetables can help with a smooth start at school.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Nurturing New Beginnings: Step Into Primary School Part 1

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:12:10 GMT

Over the summer holidays, we will be taking a look at school transitions. This week, we start with the transition to starting primary school with a conversation with Parenting Workers about school readiness and independence skills. Additionally, we are joined by Debbie from the Family Information Service with an update on changes to childcare funding that will be coming in September.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Summer 2025: Parenting, National Literacy Trust, Healthy Cornwall and Headstart Kernow

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:39:20 GMT

In the final episode of our mini-series with ideas for places to go and things to do over the summer holidays, we are joined by Gabby from the parenting team to talk about the Nurturing New Beginnings sessions that they will be running over the summer, Jo from the National Literacy Trust in Cornwall to share their summer offer, Sadie from Healthy Cornwall to tell us about their activities over the summer holidays and Jo from Headstart Kernow to chat about their summer picnics. We will also hear from them about how to find out the details of their activities and sessions.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Summer 2025: Cornwall Libraries Summer Reading Challenge

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:59:42 GMT

For today’s podcast, we are in a mini-series about opportunities and things to do over the summer holidays this year with the family. We are joined by Andy from Cornwall Libraries to tell us all about the offer from the local libraries as well as the fantastic summer reading challenge for children aged 4-11 as well as the mini challenge for children aged 0-4.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast: Summer 2025 – Family Information Service

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:21:32 GMT

Over the next 3 episodes, we are going to hear from different services across Cornwall to find out more about how we can find activities and things to do over the summer holidays for families, children and young people. This week we are joined by Family Information Service Advisors to share with us how the Family Information Service directory can help.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Journey to Parenthood: Infant Feeding

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:19:07 GMT

In the third and final episode of our Journey to Parenthood series, we are joined by a Specialist Infant Feeding Health Visitor to talk about all things infant feeding, including feeding cues, getting breastfeeding off to a good start and responsive bottle feeding.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Journey to Parenthood: Supporting Healthy Relationships

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:08:25 GMT

Join us for the second episode in our Journey to Parenthood series. This week we are joined by Charmari from OnePlusOne to talk about how having a baby can bring about changes to our lives and to our relationships, and she will be sharing some ideas and resources for navigating this transition.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Journey to Parenthood: Maternity services

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:22:48 GMT

Join us for a brand-new mini-series, ‘Journey to Parenthood’ where over the next 3 weeks, we will be focused on the support and services available to expectant parents in the antenatal and early postnatal periods. Today, we will be talking all about the maternity services in Cornwall for parents-to-be and their families.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - National Literacy Trust: Everyone Ready for School

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:08:37 GMT

In today’s episode we are joined again by Jo from the National Literacy Trust in Cornwall to tell us about their latest booklet for parents: Everyone Ready for School. We’ll hear more about the booklet and some ideas and suggestions from it about how parents can prepare with their child for starting school.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Father’s Day 2025

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:14:47 GMT

For Father’s Day, we have a special episode chatting about the services and support available for dads and male carers in Cornwall as well as highlighting the important role dads and male carers play in the lives of their children and young people.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: Sleep

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:03:59 GMT

On today’s podcast, the last in the current Q&A series, we are talking about the crucial topic of sleep, including why it’s so important, how we can help children to go to sleep and stay asleep as well as tips about where else we can find support and strategies to support with any challenges around sleep that children might be having.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: What to do when our parenting strategies aren’t working

Tue, 20 May 2025 09:47:40 GMT

In today’s episode we are joined by a parent who asked the podcast ‘what should parents do when they consistently apply the strategies, like those in the Solihull Approach, but their child doesn’t respond as expected?’ In discussion with a Parenting Worker, we talk about some ideas and tips around this question.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: Parents Plus Adolescents Programme

Tue, 13 May 2025 13:28:17 GMT

On today’s episode, we are joined by a Parenting Worker to tell us more about one of the parenting programmes on offer in Cornwall, the Parents Plus Adolescents Programme. We will hear about how the sessions run, what they cover and what parents can expect to get out of the group, including some interesting tips around teenage brain development.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: Importance of Self-Care

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:23:43 GMT

Following a topic suggestion from a parent for a podcast episode on the importance of self-care, this episode looks at why self-care matters as well as some top tips and strategies for looking after yourself as a parent. We also hear from services such as Qwell and Barnardo’s Virtual Family Space Workshops for further ideas on where to get support with looking after yourself as a parent.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Effective co-parenting

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:15:16 GMT

Following a topic suggestion from a parent for a podcast episode on effective co-parenting, this episode looks at some top tips and strategies for co-parenting such as looking at parenting styles, house rules and boundaries, and communication and negotiation, as well as managing conflict.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parent Champions

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:22:33 GMT

Find out more about our brand-new Parent Champion role. In this episode, we are joined by Debbie, our Parent Champion Coordinator to tell us about this new opportunity to become a Parent Champion in our service, including what the role is and what benefits parents can expect from joining us.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: Rupture and Repair

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:11:08 GMT

In today’s episode for the Q&A series we are joined by a parent who has a question for the podcast: Are there any tips and tricks to help rebuild your relationship with your child after a rupture in the relationship? Parenting Workers Benn and Lucy will join the conversation to share their thoughts on rupture and repair.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Q&A: Sibling Rivalry

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:20 GMT

Join us for a brand-new series where we will be taking questions and topic suggestions from parents for a discussion on the podcast. Today’s episode is about a parent’s suggested topic: sibling rivalry. We’ll be talking about what sibling rivalry is, how we can understand why it happens and some strategies to support with managing it.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Child Exploitation Awareness

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:43:05 GMT

Today, 18th March 2025, is National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, so join us for a second episode in a 2-part mini-series raising awareness of Child Exploitation. On this episode, we are joined by special guests from Cornwall Council, Young People Cornwall and the Police to chat about what child exploitation is, what support is available for young people, parents and families, and how parents can access this support for themselves or their young person.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - DICE Programme

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:42:49 GMT

Join us for the first episode of a two-part mini-series leading up to National Child Exploitation Awareness Day on 18th March. This week, we are joined by a special guest from Barnardo’s to talk about the Exceed Project and the DICE Programme which is a preventative parenting programme for parents of teenagers and pre-teens that informs and supports families around parenting in the modern world. We’ll talk about what the programme covers, how to access it and get some top tips from the programme.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Emotion Coaching

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:25:47 GMT

Following on from last week’s episode on Emotional Health, this week we are joined by special guests from the Educational Psychology Team and Early Years Service to discuss Emotion Coaching in more details. We will talk about what emotion coaching is and how to do it, how it can be one of our parenting styles and the steps that we take when we emotion coach our children.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Emotional Health Awareness

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:18:35 GMT

This week is Emotional Health Awareness Day, so for a special podcast, we will hear from Parenting Workers about what Emotional Health is, and how we can support our children and ourselves to look after our emotional health and wellbeing.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - National Literacy Trust

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:57:50 GMT

Join us for a special episode for half-term where we are joined by a special guest from the National Literacy Trust to tell us more about what they do and the support they offer to families in Cornwall. We will also hear all about their new resource ‘Little Moments Together’, including some tips for helping our little ones develop communication, language and literacy skills in those everyday ‘Little Moments Together’.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Solihull Approach: Understanding your Child

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:01:11 GMT

Today we will hear from the Parenting Team for more information about the Solihull Approach and the Understanding your Child programme, including some of the key topics covered and how the programme runs. We will also hear from some parents who have completed the programme itself sharing their experiences of the programme.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Kooth and Qwell

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:34:13 GMT

In today’s episode, we are joined by a special guest to discuss the services and support provided by Kooth for the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 11-18 and Qwell which offers a similar service for those aged 19-25 and for all parents and carers in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We also talked about top tips for supporting young people through difficult times and looking after yourselves as parents.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Supporting Healthy Relationships: Part 2 (Getting it Right for Children)

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:51:21 GMT

Following on from our recent podcast on Supporting Healthy Relationships, this week we are looking in more detail at the offer for separated or separating parents and our Parenting Lead will share some tips for effective communication between co-parents. Additionally, we’ll hear from a parent who has accessed one of our Supporting Healthy Relationships programmes, as she shares her experiences with the resources and group support.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Healthy Cornwall

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:31:30 GMT

For today’s episode of the Empowered Parenting Podcast, we are joined by a guest from Healthy Cornwall to talk about the Pregnancy and Early Years service and the support they offer to families as well as to share some top tips around stopping smoking and healthy eating in the early years.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting styles: Part 2

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:07:50 GMT

Join us for the second episode of our mini-series on parenting styles. Today we are again joined by one of our Parenting Workers to answer some frequently asked questions about parenting styles and offer some practical tips about how reflecting on our parenting styles can support our children with their feelings and behaviour.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting styles: Part 1

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:25:18 GMT

Join us for the first episode of a brand-new mini-series for the new year, looking at parenting styles. Today we are joined by one of our Parenting Workers to give us an overview of what parenting styles are and some examples of them in practice as well as some top tips for reflecting on our own parenting styles.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Avoid, ignore and distract

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:24:36 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in our Parenting Toolkit series. Today we are joined by Parenting Workers to share their top tips and add 3 final tools for your toolkit: avoid, ignore and distract. The podcast will be back in the New Year with a new mini-series on parenting styles.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Supporting Healthy Relationships

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:56:10 GMT

Whether you are parenting together or apart, join us for a special episode as we discuss the importance of healthy parental relationships. Learn practical tips for managing stress, improving communication, and fostering a more peaceful family environment during this busy time of year.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Managing celebrations: Part 2

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:02:06 GMT

Join us for the next episode in a mini-series in the run up to the Christmas Holidays on managing celebrations. Following on from the previous episode on how we can support children around celebrations, this time we will be focusing on the importance of self-care and how parents can support and look after themselves in the run up to celebrations.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Managing celebrations: Part 1

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:16:05 GMT

Join us for the first episode in a mini-series in the run up to the Christmas Holidays on managing celebrations. Celebrations are often lovely but there are some aspects of the holidays that children can find more difficult, such as changes to routines or differences in the sensory environment. On today’s episode, we’ll be joined by Parenting Workers to share their top tips for supporting and managing these changes.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Respond rather than react

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:06:45 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in our Parenting Toolkit series. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is ‘respond rather than react’. Today we will talk about ‘pressing the pause button’, the importance of looking after yourselves as parents and tips for responding to your child’s behaviour.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Rewards

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:46:03 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in our Parenting Toolkit series. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is rewards. Today we will talk about rewards and how we can use them effectively with our children to encourage appropriate or expected behaviours.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Brain Development

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 09:55:51 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in a special one-off episode on early brain development. Today we will joined by an Early Help Family Worker to discuss the Early Help service and what Family Workers and Targeted Youth Support Workers do, and she will also be giving us a fascinating insight into early brain development and how as parents, we can support with brain development and growth.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Boundaries

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:53:18 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in our Parenting Toolkit series. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is boundaries. Today we will discuss the importance of boundaries and how implementing these can help with children’s worries, emotions and behaviour.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Routines

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:49:40 GMT

Join us for the latest episode in our Parenting Toolkit series. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is routines. Today we will discuss the importance of routines and how implementing these can make a difference to your child’s emotional wellbeing and behaviour.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Family Information Service

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:45:35 GMT

This episode we are joined by colleagues from the Family Information Service who, as well as talking to us about what their service offers to support parents and carers, will also be giving us some tips about how to find activities and ideas for the upcoming half-term holiday.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Stoptober

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:44:58 GMT

For Stoptober, we are joined by guests from the Treating Tobacco Dependency Team for Maternity and Healthy Cornwall to chat about the support available for stopping smoking in pregnancy and beyond.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Child-led play and special time

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:22:26 GMT

Join us for the third episode in our Parenting Toolkit series, part of the Empowered Parenting Podcast. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is child-led play and special time. Today we will discuss the importance of child-led play and how dedicating just 10 minutes a day to this can make all the difference to your child’s development and wellbeing.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Barnardo’s Virtual Family Space

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:56:08 GMT

Join us for a special episode with a member of the team from Barnardo’s Virtual Family Space, who will be talking about some brand new workshops that will be rolling out across Cornwall. She’ll be chatting about some of the workshop topics including potty training, child safety, self-care and first-aid as well as giving details on how to access these workshops.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Empathy

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:43:27 GMT

Join us for the second episode in our Parenting Toolkit mini-series, part of the new Empowered Parenting Podcast series. Today’s ‘tool’ for your toolkit is empathy. We will look at what empathy is, why it is so important, and how it differs from sympathy.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - SEND System Navigators

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:56:35 GMT

Join us as we meet one of Cornwall Council’s SEND System Navigators who are part of the SEND and Inclusion Team. We will be discussing what support their service offers to parents and carers as well as learning more about things like the Graduated Response and Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Parenting Toolkit: Praise and Encouragement

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:20:06 GMT

Join us for the first episode in our new Parenting Toolkit mini-series. Running throughout the next term, we will explore different strategies or ‘tools’ that you can use as part of your parenting toolkit. In this episode we look at 'praise and encouragement', what they are and how they can be used effectively.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Back to School Part 2

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:11:41 GMT

Join us for Part 2 of our two-part mini-series on 'Back to School' where we share some helpful tips on preparing your child for going back to school following the summer holidays.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Back to School Part 1

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:03:49 GMT

Join us for Part 1 of a two-part mini-series on Back to School where we share some helpful tips on preparing your child for going back to school following the summer holidays.

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Empowered Parenting Podcast - Introduction

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:28:43 GMT

Welcome to the Empowered Parenting Podcasts from Cornwall Council’s Together for Families. We will be releasing new episodes each week, bringing you top tips and guest speakers to discuss a range of topics relating to your parenting journey. This episode is an introduction to the podcast series as well as an overview of the wider parenting support on offer in Cornwall.

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Together for Families Podcast

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:16:32 GMT

On this podcast we talk about the importance of pre-teen sleep, we discover more about the role of a family worker and we talk about babies

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Together for Families Podcast

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 15:57:17 GMT

On this edition we talk about childhood trauma and supporting your children on their learning journey.

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Together for Families Podcast August 2021

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:05:08 GMT

On this episode we talk about how to support your pre-schooler with their learning and development, how to plan celebrations for children with learning disabilities and we explain what a family conference is.

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Tantrums and early years funding

Fri, 07 May 2021 09:36:37 GMT

In this episode we talk about early years funding, the family information service in Cornwall and how to deal with temper tantrums.

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Back to school

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:38:10 GMT

The first phase of the roadmap sees the return of all pupils to schools in Cornwall, but we ask our Public Health team if schools are safe and what young people can do to protect themselves. We also explore the mental health impacts of lockdown and how we can all support each other.

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Dealing with tantrums and are you an owl or crocodile?

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:16:32 GMT

Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from Together for Families, part of Cornwall Council.

This week we continue looking at the teenage brain, we find out more about dealing with tantrums, but first Karen and Caroline talk about becoming the Owl or the Crocodile.

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New Year, New You?

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:54:23 GMT

How are you getting on with those new year resolutions?

If smoking is one thing you want to kick to the curb, we will hear from Gareth from Public Health about breaking the habit, Hannah from Headstart Kernow will remind us to be kind to ourselves and Jack and Craig from Healthy Cornwall talk about looking after our waistlines:

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Together for Families Parenting Podcast Christmas Podcast

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:37:58 GMT

This week we look forward to the fun of the season as we talk to Andy from Cornwall Outdoors about their 'Adventure Calendar', we will also hear from local award winning chef Paul James on how best to have a Christmas dinner on a budget and we talk to Janice from Citizens Advice about your rights and money this month.

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Parenting Podcast 7 - Together Families

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:54:05 GMT

Hello and welcome back to the parenting podcast from Together for Families, part of Cornwall Council. This week we talk about the problems that a sensory overload can cause, we find out more about the #CETHESIGNS campaign about exploitation and we learn more about adoption and hear form some parents that have gone through the process.

For more information on the #CETHESIGNS campaign, please visit: https://ciossafeguarding.org.uk/cethesigns

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Together for Families Parenting Podcast 6

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:25:05 GMT

Welcome back to another Parenting Podcast from Together for Families. This week we talk about good ways of keeping calm, we learn more about the teenage brain and we also talk about the 'C word' - CHRISTMAS!!

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Sleep, routines and adoption

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:30:11 GMT

Welcome to the next in our series of Podcasts. Today we focus on getting back into a routine, why teenagers need so much sleep and we also dispel some of the myths around adoption.

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Parenting Podcast (4) - Together for Families

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:07:10 GMT

In this podcast we are going to talk about the importance of routines, we learn about ADHD and the importance of keeping active.

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Parenting Podcast Together For Families 3

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:41:36 GMT

The latest from Together for Families - This week we learn how to pick our battles, find out the importance of encouragement and the benefits of nature on our health.

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Parenting Podcast 2 - Together for Families

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:00:14 GMT

Together for Families from Cornwall Council, please remember if there is anything you hear in this that you would like more information on, please visit cornwall.gov.uk/togetherforfamilies or supportincornwall.org.uk.

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The moving school podcast

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:41:34 GMT

The summer holidays; a time to relax, chill out and look back on the last year. It’s been an unusual year and we’ve all crawled towards the break, whether you have been home schooling or you’ve been in school, it’;s not the usual end of term. And for some young people, especially those starting school in September for the first time, or those making that move from primary to secondary or secondary to college, the transition can bring about extra worries. This podcast is about the help and support available for those young people and their families:

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Parenting Podcast- Together for Families

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:22:41 GMT

We start our Podcast series with some virtual parenting lessons and tips from some of our family workers, from Together for Families

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