Welcome to Mellow Parenting

Mellow Parenting is a family of early intervention programmes designed to promote positive relationships in vulnerable, hard to reach families. Using the links to the right you can explore the different programmes we have available.

Our current, evidence based programmes include:

• Mellow Bumps (our antenatal programme)
• Mellow Babies (for parents of babies aged up to 18 months)
• Mellow Parenting (for parents of children aged 2 to 5 years)

Other, newer programmes which have still to be evaluated include:

• Dad Matters… (an antenatal programme for dads to be)
• Mellow Dads Lite (a new online programme for dads of children aged 0 to 5)
• Mellow Dads (for dads of children aged 2 to 5 years)

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

• mother-child interaction
• child behaviour problems
• mother’s wellbeing
• mother’s effectiveness and confidence in parenting.

Our antenatal programme has shown improvements in depression, anxiety, inwardly directed irritability and outwardly directed irritability with mums-to-be who have additional health and social care needs.

Mellow Parenting is a Scottish based charity but operates in a number of international countries including Iceland, Russia, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and Kajikistan. If you have any questions please get in touch using the contact us button at the bottom of this page.