Make a Positive Difference in Your Children's Lives

  • ​Interact with your child in loving and consistent ways.
  • Take an interactive role in caring for your child, including making sure they are safe and that their emotional, physical, social and cognitive needs are met.
  • Play, read and spend time with your child.
  • Get involved with your child's school, whether it's joining the parent-teacher association, volunteering at school events or taking time to help with their homework.
  • Be a good role model and share with those around you the importance of respecting others.
  • Educate the boys and girls in your family about healthy, equal relationships. The well-being in your family includes the ability to develop healthy relationships with others.
  • Teach children about good boundaries. Helping children understand their own boundaries and how to assert them is an important step in helping them understand other people's boundaries and how to respect them.
  • Help your children recognize their feelings and teach them appropriate ways to express these feelings.
  • Speak of the men and women that made a difference in your life.
  • Share family responsibilities equally. Model equality and healthy relationships by sharing housework and child care.

*Acknowledgements to Strathcona County Community Partners in Action (CPAC) and SHIFT, the Project to End Domestic Violence for content.