PARENTS OF KAPTOYOY AND BINYINY SUB-COUNTIES` TRAINING ON POSITIVE PARENTING
Parent engagement to end Child marriages
The Hope and Dream of every parent is to raise healthy well-adjusted children who have the skills to;
- Communicate their needs
- Get on with others
- Try to do their best
- Manage their emotions
- Feel good about themselves
And to bring up children in a safe, secure, loving and low-conflict environment.
Topics Covered During the Training
- Being a Parent
- Parenting as an employment Meeting
- Goodness of being a parent
- Children’s Behavior, the tough part of parenting
- Positive Parenting
- Benefits of positive parenting to children
- Benefits of positive parenting to parents
- Five Core Principles of positive parenting
- Strategies of Positive Parenting
- Using Assertive Discipline
Reasons Advanced by Parents for Failure to Parent
- Poor communication skills
- Absence of men
- Lack of parenting skills
- Negative thinking
- Sharing houses
- Child Neglect
- Lack of team Working as parents
- Giving children unrealistic targets
Agreed Actions
- Make your family a priority (Men coming back home early)
- Create a warm, loving, safe environment for children
- Encourage children’s learning and Use of assertive discipline
- Have reasonable expectations for children
- Work as a team to parent children both husband and wife
- Use of appropriate male/female mentors for single parents