Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents

Click here for a printable version of the 'Growing healthy families' booklet 

A good parent prepares kids for life ... this is our way of teaching our kids to learn to make decisions.

As parents, we need to respect our kids as individuals. When they are old enough, they will have to be responsible for their decisions and the choices they make and wear the consequences, whether good or bad. All this is part of becoming a responsible person.

We want our kids to become strong and healthy, and that means physically strong and healthy as well as spiritually strong and healthy. This is one of the best things we as parents can do for them. We need to teach them to be independent, and to be able to stand up for themselves, do things for themselves and handle the hard things that they come up against.