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‘POSITIVE PARENTING’ will help you to:
• Address your personal needs as a parent, while supporting you to become
the parent your child – and your family – can always rely on.
• Build strong, adaptable family routines to provide your child with security and
stimulation every day.
• Create a thought-provoking home environment that will encourage deep
play and independence.
• Deepen your connection with your child to create an atmosphere that
promotes and celebrates learning.
• Generate non-threatening and enjoyable ways of learning that incorporates
educational outcomes from across a wide range of curriculum areas.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHERS
• Trending in Our Communities
• In America Children With Fathers Are Less Likely to Live in Poverty
• Children With Fathers Achieve More At School
• Children Without Fathers Are More Likely To Spend time In Jail
• Children With Fathers Are Less Likely to Abuse Drugs and Alcohol
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• Children Without Fathers Are More Likely to Be Sexually Active as Teenagers
• Children Without Fathers Are More Likely to Be Obese
• Children With Fathers Get More Roughhousing
• Children With Fathers Are More Likely to Have a Larger Vocabulary
• Children With Fathers Are More Likely to Be Encouraged to Take Healthy
Risks
• Children With Fathers Gain Many Additional Benefits to Health and
Happiness

GRANDPARENTS ARE GREAT is intended to address two important family,
community. regional and national issues.

The first is to develop individual, family and community awareness of the urgent
need to address and take action to reduce the incidence of preventable
chronic disease.

As grandparents grow older the risks of developing chronic health conditions
certainly increase. But studies have shown that regular exercise boosts bone
health, improves brain function, preserves muscle mass, keep joints moving and
helps with day-to-day functional activities such as carrying shopping bags or
even opening jars.

Figures show that only 17% of men and 13% of women over 65 are sufficiently
active – and the World Health Organization reports that 3.2 million deaths every
year are attributable largely to physical inactivity and associated
cardiovascular issues. These shocking numbers can easily be remedied with a
regular walking routine – and this can also involve their grandchildren.

The second is to recognize that the goodwill and love of the family of older
Australians – grandmothers and grandfathers – is being taken for granted.
Grandparents are the most popular form of childcare in Australia today.
Approximately one-fifth of Australian children aged 12 and under – received
grandparent care, far outstripping other forms of childcare such as long day
care, and before and after school care.

Australian Bureau of Statistics from 2014 indicated that more than 97% of
grandparent care in Australia was unpaid. More recent estimates, even taking
into account recent government policy changes, suggest that grandparents
are contributing in excess of $3.94 billion to the Australian economy in unpaid
childcare, with the typical grandparent-carer (usually the grandmother,
consistently providing average unpaid childcare of more than 30 hours per
month.

In our 3 for 1 offer, you will receive a total of 260 informative and activity-packed pages – for the price of a single title •for $US18 you will have immediate access to more than 300 instant-use activities and suggestions. •for an outlay of approximately 60 cents for each activity you will have a user-friendly and highly-motivational resource to adapt to your own use. •you will make a saving of $US36.