Educating your daughter

Her education begins at home and continues with playgroup, school, college and perhaps university. Decisions, decisions...

A parents' guide - useful websites

Below is a list of external sites featured on MyDaughter – offering help, advice or useful services:

Services
Schoolstrader – School community trading online is booming and www.schoolstrader.com – is the place to start. Parents, staff and alumni can trade with each other free of charge – everything from musical instruments and houses to ski gear and holiday homes.

Social pressures

Got a Teenager (www.gotateenager.org.uk)
FPA – talking sense about sex (www.fpa.org.uk)

Kids Health – Caffeine (www.kidshealth.org)
Beating Addictions – Caffeine(www.beatingaddictions.co.uk.)
Talk to Frank (www.talktofrank.com)
Childline (www.childline.org.uk)
Solvent Abuse – Re-solv (www.re-solv.org)
Parents against drug abuse (www.pada.org.uk)
Breakthru – Drug & alcoholl awareness (www.breakthru.co.uk)
Child protection uk Ltd (www.childprotectionukltd.co.uk)

Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays www.fflag.org.uk
Gay and Lesbian Humanist association www.galha.org/local-helplines-and-support-groups

Beating eating disorders (www.b-eat.co.uk)

Bereavement
Winston’s Wish, (winstonswish.org.uk)
Cruse Bereavement Care (crusebereavementcare.org.uk)
The Child Bereavement Trust (childbereavement.org.uk)

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