Rosie Hill

I am passionate about parenting and have worked with parents for over 30 years. My first
involvement was a personal one when I was finding raising two children on my own
extremely lonely and challenging. My life began to change after attending a parenting
course when they were at primary school. Since then I’ve been committed to supporting
projects that enable parents everywhere to access the ideas and strategies I found so
helpful within my own family.

In 2000, in my role as Parenting Officer for the Youth Offending Team, I set up the
Oxfordshire Parent-Talk programme for parents/carers of troubled or at-risk teenagers and I
wrote the Take 3 parenting programme (http://www.take3parenting.co.uk) to meet the needs
of that project. One of the core concepts of the programme is that we can’t change other
people but we can change ourselves. Over the years I’ve met many parents/carers who
were at their wits’ end about how to alter their young people’s challenging behaviour.
However, I saw adults develop in confidence and transform their parenting skills when they
were given a chance to discuss their anxieties and be gently supported to try out new ideas.
They began to realize that they could make changes. As a result of this, their young
people’s behaviour also changed radically and their families became much happier. When
families are in crisis parents/carers typically become confused, helpless, angry and/or
depressed and love gets lost and frozen, but when parents/carers can be supported and
refreshed with new ideas and skills, they regain their confidence and love and connection
can flow again.

In April 2025 I published Raising Confident Teenagers: The Take 3 approach to parenting
calmly in a stressful world. This book enables parents to access all the skills and strategies
from the Take 3 course in a very readable format, so they can follow the course by
themselves, with a partner or friend, or with the support of a parenting practitioner. It is
available from Amazon, or from the publisher (https://www.karnacbooks.com).

Over the years I have trained many parenting practitioners around the UK to work with the
Take 3 programme, but these days my particular interest is in working with parents/carers of
10-18-year-olds, in person or on-line. A series of sessions with a parenting practitioner will

frequently enable reconnection and an easier relationship between parents/carers and their
young people.

Apart from being a parenting practitioner, mother and now a grandmother, I have been a
reflexologist, a training officer for the CAB, a china restorer, lived on a small-holding and
have a degree in Anthropology.  In 1998 I co-edited the book Cross-Cultural Marriage:
Identity and Choice.