The Parenting Place - What We Do

The Parenting Place, situated at 300 Great South Road in Greenlane, includes an Allpress cafe to relax in, workshops on a wide range of parenting topics to encourage and inspire, and a bookshop filled with specialist parenting books.

Parents Inc. are experts on relationships. Most of the skills we help people master in their families are exactly the ones management and employees need in the workplace. We can provide a speaker or put together an entire event that will fit your needs, audience and budget.

Community events with well researched topics delivering practical skills in an entertaining way on parenting, relationships and lifeskills.

An age specific six week parenting programme that is run in your local community.Age categories are Early Years (0-6), Middle Years (6-12) and Teenage Years.

Two hour seminar or one and a half hour Korero aimed specifically at Maori. Presented by Pio Terei and John Cowan

Published quarterly since mid 2000, Parenting magazine from Parents Inc. lets parents know it's okay to have values and boundaries, and gives practical tools to put these in place.

Early morning breakfasts for busy men, held annually in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington with a star line-up of speakers.

Parenting throws new challenges at us constantly. Looking for someone to help you get back on track with some new ideas and strategies?

This programme is booked by intermediate schools as part of their health module - used either instead of, or as well as, the public health nurse's presentation.

Attitude is the youth division of Parents Inc. and provides presentations and resources to secondary schools.

With Leighton Smith. Ian has a regular slot on Leighton Smith’s top-rated programme on the NewstalkZB network, offering parenting tips and commenting on issues relating to family life.

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Our vision is simple – “to positively impact every family”. Our hope is that this will become a reality for you as you experience what Parents Inc. has to offer.