Childrearing Matters

Childrearing Matters offers advice to individuals and runs inspirational workshops and training, for Dutch and international children, parents and professionals. Like all parents and professionals, you’ll want to help ‘your’ child to develop its full potential. Childrearing Matters runs inspirational workshops and training courses covering all aspects of childrearing, behaviour and development. You’ll receive answers to the questions many parents and professionals ask, like “How can I help my child to communicate clearly, deal with challenges and disappointments, learn and concentrate, make and keep friends, consider others and reach its own goals?”
You’ll also learn how to deal effectively with behavioural problems, minimize your stress levels and maximize the pleasure you derive from your contact with children and adolescents. Child development and behavioral specialist and former teacher Alison Sutton, herself an ‘international mother’, is qualified to treat a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems. Symptoms can include aggression, hyperactivity, concentration problems, defiance, communication problems, depression, withdrawal and anxiety. Working closely with you, Alison can help you to establish ‘what’s wrong’ and ‘what’s needed’ to bring out the best in your child or adolescent. Childrearing Matters works to improve children’s access to and parents' involvement in community services, and is currently advising the GGD Hollands Midden on key aspects of pedagogical policy.