Parenting is critical in supporting and shaping children’s health and educational, emotional and developmental outcomes as well as in supporting family well-being. Parenting that is supportive proactive responsive and involved promotes children positive adjustment. Parenting that is strong and supportive beginning Early in the child’s life more so as early as prenatal leads to strong and secure relationship between parent and child and can protect children from negative outcome because of adverse experiences.
Parenting that is neglectful, abusive, rejecting and controlling can result in poor health, bad behavior and poor character.
Optimal parenting includes a connected relationship and interaction to ensure that children are taken care of
- Physically (providing nutritious food, health care, adequate sleep and safe environment).
- Cognitively (offering opportunity to learn, explore and use of proper language).
- Socially (Responding to children with consistent loving care, teaching children right and wrong and enabling children to develop independence safely).
- Emotionally (supporting the child’s sense of self-worth)
Learning can be hard, but getting a better understanding of child development along with learning and sharing techniques in parenting can improve communication between parent and child and reduce harsh discipline and emotional distress.
Parenting programs are designed to improve these aspects of care giving. The ability to parent well is not necessarily intuitive. Your parenting style is influenced by the aspects of your life history (past), personality and temperament, together with the characteristic of the child such as age and temperament. Class, culture, religion, neighborhood or community also shape parenting practices. SHAUKU CARE COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT CAN HELP.
SHAUKU CARE COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT provides parenting education programs designed to increase parents’ capacity in the care and protection of their children with the goal of reducing the number of risks factors a family faces while strengthening and building protective factors.
We do provide a strong platform for collaborative partnership with other service providers.
Our main objective is to support families to have the knowledge and skills needed to raise healthy, safe and resilient children.
Improved parenting is a lifelong process, all of us can benefit from and make a difference in our communities.