You may spend months learning how to deal with a pregnancy and the pros and cons of different approaches for birth but nobody explains the reality of what it means to have children and to have the responsibility of bringing them up to become adults.

When you’re sleep deprived, stressed and juggling work and life commitments, day to day parenting or challenging behaviour can feel very hard to handle.

You might feel overwhelmed, think there must be an easier way, or react from a place of frustration that doesn’t foster positive relationships or reflect the parent you want to be.

But when we break down what our children need from us and build our toolkit of parenting skills, then we can enter a position of empowerment and change, both for ourselves and our children.