When signing up to attend the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, Martyn Stoner, parenting manager at Brighton's youth offending team, had no idea he would have to address the painful memories of his own marriage break-up.
"It was for a part of the course on self-reflection. I had to think about my own parenting skills and how the break-up affected my daughters," he reveals. "It wasn't an easy thing to do. There were some things I did well instinctively and others not so well, but I could see the point of revisiting that time. It made me think much more about how our actions as parents affect our children."
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