The Village Nursing Care Centre

The Village Nursing Care Centre is located at Ballygarriff between Craughwell, Clarinbridge, and Oranmore. The centre opened its doors in 2005 and has since provided an outstanding level of care and service to its residents.

The Village offers a variety of services, from long term residential care to rehabilitation services as well as respite care, day care, and post-operative care. Most recently the centre has added a home care option, providing a much needed service to the local community. The home care service is a unique service offering clients a combination package of home care visits, day care at the centre, and medical holidays in addition to access to the specialised care services available at The Village.

The positive role played by fathers

In 2002 a study of 17,000 children in Oxford confirmed what is obvious to anyone who observes family life — that children benefit immensely from having involved fathers.

Researchers described an ‘involved’ father as one who reads to his child, takes outings with his child, is interested in his child’s education, and takes an equal role in managing his child.

The spoilt child

We know that parents have many different parenting styles, which are influenced by many different things. Certain parents adopt a style of parenting that is called a permissive parenting style. Parents using this style allow their children to freely express themselves and do not enforce clear rules on acceptable or otherwise behaviour. They often accept or ignore bad behaviour and make few demands on their children for mature, independent, behaviour. This is reflected in households where there are few rules and limits and children are allowed to act and behave how they please. Parents may take this approach for a number of reasons.

There is no doubt it is easier to give in to a screaming child than to stand your ground and refuse that extra bar of chocolate, etc. For some parents making that stand is very difficult and because they were unable to do it when their child was small, it gets more difficult as their child gets older and so a cycle begins.

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