Area Based Childhood Initiative
 

PEEP

PEEP Group

Peep groups are for parents and carers and their young children – some are for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers (3-5) or young school-age children, while others are for mixed age children. 

In Peep groups, practitioners and families share ideas and simple, low-cost activities that support your child’s learning in everyday life – talking, singing, sharing books and playing together. They’re also a great way to get to know other families.

As a parent or carer, your baby or child will already be learning so much from you, as you chat, play, sing, cuddle, and do all your usual day-to-day activities. Research shows that these things that you do together have a big impact on how children’s brains develop in these early years, and on how they get on at school and in later life. 

By emphasising the importance of parents, it doesn’t mean that it’s your fault if things don’t always turn out as you hoped! There are lots of influences and things going on in children’s and our busy lives. It doesn’t matter how you got on at school, or whether you’re a stay-at-home parent/carer or you go out to work – you’re just as important to your child. There’s no such thing as a perfect parent – being a parent or carer is about enjoying the up times and helping each other through the down times, not about feeling guilty.

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