As a childcare and family support professional, I’ve helped numerous parents overcome the challenges associated with raising young children. Specialising in new families, from pre-pregnancy to children up to two years old, my approach is based on encouraging parents to develop confidence in their intuition and in their parenting skills.

Over the years, I’ve become known as an ambassador for positive parenting, I'm a contributor to several BBC local radio stations, I've written press articles, led workshops and seminars, and launched a series of audio guides championing confident parenting.

All of this has led me to develop the idea of Preparenting, my philosophy of preparing for the choices, changes and challenges of parenthood. Preparenting and the Preparenting Programme are not only profound ways of empowering parents, but are also fresh sources of inspiration for anyone interested in families, communities and society as a whole. Such is my belief in the concept I took it to the United States, where I delivered a seminar on the subject to audiences at the BabyTime Expo events in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Seattle.

I hope you find the Preparenting Programme for adults and young people of value and I welcome any comments or feedback you may have. For further help with the challenges of early parenthood please visit my practitioner Support page.

Very best wishes

Christine Meadows