- Keeping your family safe
- Health and wellbeing
- Relationships
- Daily challenges
- Life Stages
- Getting started
- So you're pregnant?
- Babies
- Helping older children to accept a new baby
- When your baby cries
- Babies and sleep
- How to handle your baby
- 9 to 13 year olds
- Teens
- Tackling difficult teenage behaviour
- Teens in trouble at school
- Your teenager wants to move out
- Support for teens and children
- Surviving teenage parties
- Getting a babysitter
- Discipline
- Positive discipline
- Using time out
- Education
- Starting school
- Choosing subjects at school
- Key facts on NCEA
- Moving on from school
- Helping out round home
- Birthday parties
- Parent types
Good question!
Recommended links
- Starting school and enrolment
- School terms and holidays
- The Education Review Office (ERO) publishes reports on current education practice in schools and ECE every three years.
- Reducing stress: Kiwi Families offers tips to reduce the back-to-school stress for parents and children, including a handy checklist for parents for the first day back at primary and secondary school
Information for specific groups
- For more, call the Ministry of Education on 0800 800 675.
- Maori: The Ministry of Education has information, policy and programmes; spanning early childhood to tertiary education
- Pasifika: The Ministry of Education has information on educational needs from early childhood to tertiary education
- Special education: The Ministry of Education has information on special education needs, including services and funding
- International education: The Ministry of Education has information relating to international education in New Zealand
- Gifted children: Team Up provides information on signs of special talent and links to organisations offering support.
Where can I find out more?
Team Up has information on the steps to take and questions to ask about primary school including information on how do children learn, parent teacher interviews and financial support for parents

