2 Exploring home practices relating to health
Health practices and what parents do to support and promote children’s health can be a sensitive area. Many parents may not have the means or resources to provide the foundations of health for children.
However, what you do in your setting can have a significant impact on children’s health. This can be strengthened by building bridges between home and setting. To help Karen find out more about health practices at home, she created a questionnaire. In the following section, she gives some tips that can help to create a questionnaire that parents may feel comfortable in completing.