Dr Gina Parenting is an evidence based learning platform, empowering parents to make the best possible parenting decisions for your child based on current and accurate research that you can trust – allowing all children to reach their potential.
As a parent, you have the ability to shape the future of the world, because you – through your parenting decisions – will shape the future of your child. Being a parent is undoubtedly the most important job in the world bringing joy and fulfilment, however it also the most challenging and hardest role we will ever undertake.
Parenting is vital in ensuring the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of your child from infancy all the way through to adulthood. Parenting practices can differ widely and many factors such as our upbringing, social status and the requirements in our working lives can impact how we parent. At the heart of all parenting is the strong desire that we as parents want the very best for our child. Research has demonstrated that parents play the biggest role in determining a child’s wellbeing and future success. Certain parenting behaviours protect children, enabling them to develop into healthy and happy adults. Disruptive and unpredictable parenting behaviour on the other hand, places children at risk of a number of negative outcomes, such as poor mental health, poor physical health and low academic achievement.
Dr. Gina Dahel, MBChB, MRCPCH, FRCPCH, graduated from University of Birmingham Medical School, UK, in 2005. She completed her paediatric training in the UK with 2 years spent abroad in Singapore. Her training involved acute paediatrics, neonatal medicine, community and developmental paediatrics. She received her Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2020.