Parents Centres Week 13-19 June - Celebrating New Zealand Parents!
Parents Centres have been equipping New Zealand parents with invaluable parenting knowledge for decades. 13-19 June 2011 is Parents Centres week and Centres up and down the country will be celebrating the amazing work they do in communities to support parents in their roles.
Parents Centres operate through a staggering network of 50 Centres and they are as varied in their approach to their National Week as they are to their geographical location! Here are some highlights over the course of the week:
- Car seat safety checks, in partnership with New World supermarkets and Baby on the Move in locations around the country. Come along and have your car seats checked by the experts and tell your friends so we can all work towards safer travelling for our precious cargo:
- Whakatane New World - Sunday 19thJune 10am-1pm
- Rototuna New World, Hamilton - Saturday 18thJune 9am-noon
- Orewa New World - Saturday 18thJune 8.30am-11.30am
- Morrinsville New World - Friday 17th June 9am-12noon
- Tauranga Gate Pa New World - Saturday 18th June 10am-2pm
- Island Bay New World, Wellington - Saturday 18th June 10-12noon
- Nelson New World - Saturday 18th June 2-4pm
- Stoke New World (also Nelson) - Monday 20th June 10.30am-12.30pm
- A number of Auckland Centres (Papakura, Franklin, Onewa, Manukau and Auckland East) have banded together host the high profile launch of Pamela Stephenson-Connolly's new book "Sex Life" - Thursday 16th June at 7pm, Elizabeth Campbell Hall, Papakura. For further details check out their facebook page. Due to flight cancellations this event has been unfortunately cancelled.
- Marlborough Parents Centre’s huge Parent and Child Expo on Sunday 12th June at the Marlborough Convention Centre in Blenheim (open 10am-4pm).
- Invercargill Parents Centre are holding an evening with celebrity chef Simon Holst - Friday 17th June at the Ascot Park Hotel, 7.30pm. Tickets are just $15 and are available by emailing invercargillparentscentre@gmail.com
- Timaru Parents Centre are holding free Music and Movement sessions, a 'Mums and Bubs' movie session and a free Parenting Focus Night on toilet training
- Palmerston North Parents Centre are holding a “Baby Brain" Quiz Night on Wednesday 15th June - full of fun, prizes and surprises!
- Greymouth Parents Centre are holding an “extravaganza” and promotional events at the local library and Aquatic Centre.
- Ashburton Parents Centreare holding an education evening on ‘Raising Boys’ and other fun events for the littlest members of the Centre.
- And up and down the country there will be many giveaways celebrating the first babies born in communities during the week!
Look out for your local Parents Centre promotion (easy to spot in their signature blue and gold colours) happening in a Centre near you!
