Welcome to Mellow Parenting

This website has been divided into two separate areas:

Firstly for general information about Mellow Parenting itself, our programmes, training dates and downloadable papers.

The second area is for Mellow Parenting trained Practitioners who can log on securely to access up to date information, new manual/worksheet downloads, enter the discussion forum and many more.

Mellow Parenting is a Scottish Based Organisation delivering high quality training in its family of evidence based parenting programmes across Scotland, the UK and overseas including Germany, Iceland, New Zealand and Russia. Training is delivered to local authority and NHS Staff as well as voluntary agencies working with the most vulnerable families in society.

Mellow Babies and Mellow Parenting are evaluated programmes which have been shown to be effective in engaging hard-to-reach families with children under five and babies under one, and in helping them make changes in their relationships with their children. 

Evaluation has shown that compared with other parenting programmes run in family centres, our programmes improve:

• mother child interaction
• child behaviour problems
• mother’s well being
• mother’s effectiveness and confidence in parenting.

 

Mellow Babies research has shown improvement in maternal depression, parent-infant interaction and a reduction in the need for Child Protection Registration and measures of care.

A new antenatal programme, Mellow Bumps, for mums-to-be with additional health and social care needs has recently been added to our family of parenting programmes, and preliminary results indicate significant reductions in self-reported anxiety and outward-directed irritability within the mums-to-be attending the groups.

Sure Start Children’s Centre Practice Guidelines recommend Mellow Parenting as an effective evaluated programme, Mellow Parenting meets the criteria recognised by the NICE guidelines for effective parenting programmes and is on the National Academy for Parenting Practitioner’s Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes.