Family

Adoption guide

Find out how to find out about your birth parents.

Family History

Our guide to researching your family's history.

Budget times

How to make the most of your finances.

Parenting

• Starting School - resources to help you choose a school for your child and get them ready to start.
• Get well bags - just the thing for when you child is ill.
• Library events for your kids, programmes for pre-schoolers and Learning Centre programmes.
• Children in our libraries - our policy about services to children and unattended children in our libraries.

Web sites and directories

• Parenting links - useful web sites for parents including health issues and helping your gifted child.
• Christchurch and Canterbury parenting web sites from localeye.
• Parenting courses, support organisations and school holiday programmes- in CINCH.

Reading assistance

Go to our kids section for reading lists.

In our learning section we have a number of guides to preparing your child and helping them learn to read.

• Preschool
• Primary School

Visits to Parent Groups

Christchurch City Libraries has an outreach programme for parents of pre-schoolers. Our Pre-school Outreach Librarian is able to visit your parent group to enrol children as library members, share tips on reading to children and describe what we have to offer parents and children.
If your group would like to contact the Pre-school Outreach Librarian to make a booking, please contact us.

Teenagers

In the pulse, our website for teens

Teen parents - helpful links for teen parents & their parents too.
Babysitters' guide

In CINCH - our community database

Support organisations for teen parents and parents of teenagers