Masterclass Parenting workshop
Parenting workshops help parents deal with everyday parenting issues. They provide a better understanding of the child and his/her process of development, which in turn helps parents make the right decisions for themselves and their kids.
However, often, there is resistance to attending parenting classes and workshops. Let us examine the reasons behind this resistance and examine why they are incorrect or biased perceptions:
Highlights of the workshop
- Accept your child unconditionally
- Positive attitude is a must
- Understand your child and learn to express your needs correctly
- Learn how Correctly praise and appreciate your child
- Accept your son unconditionally
- Parenting is a teamwork
- Importance of verbal and non-verbal communication
- Set goals for yourself as parents
Perception 1: People have been raising children for generations together and never required any classes.
Today’s society is far more complex than before and is continuing to change, at a speedy pace. The advent of technology, breakdown in the traditional structure of the Indian family, increase of dual-career families, and rapid westernisation are some of the major changes we contend with every day. We cannot always predict in what ways these changes will impact our children. Parenting classes provide scientific data on how our children are developing with the changing world. For example, attending a parenting workshop on screen time can help you understand why using devices can be unhealthy for children, how much is too much and what a balance between offline and online activities looks like.
Perception 2: I have the right to raise my child the way I want. Why should someone else tell me how to do so?
Most parents do the best they can for their child, but no one has all the answers. So, it helps being open to new strategies. For example, attending a parenting workshop could give you additional ideas on enhancing your relationship with your child or learning new techniques of eliciting cooperation from your child. Furthermore, parenting classes and workshops discuss ideas you can try, depending on your family context, your child’s temperament, your own schedule and a host of other factors. So, these forums educate parents on what has been found to be effective or beneficial for children.
Perception 3: Parenting comes naturally; it is intuitive and parents already know how to raise their children.
If parenting was so intuitive, we wouldn’t have so many cases of child emotional, physical, and sexual abuse! There is nothing natural about child abuse or transmitting patterns of violence or anxious ways of responding from one generation to the next. Parenting classes provide an opportunity for parents to evaluate their methods in a safe setting, ask questions and learn about resources. It empowers them to choose the parenting method that works best for them.
Perception 4: People will judge me if I go for parenting classes. They will think that I’m a bad or inadequate parent.
Parenting is not easy, no matter what the age of the child is. It’s hard raising children. The sooner we accept this, the better we’ll be able to deal with all the confusing doubts, puzzling moments, and contradictory emotions that parenting entails. Parents need to remember that it’s not a failure to ask for help. Attending parenting classes and workshops does not mean that something is wrong with you or your child. Rather, they are developed to build upon parents’ current skills, that is, improve the skills of ‘good’ parents, rather than help ‘bad’ parents.
Parenting is a learning journey and children don’t come with instruction manuals! Till the time they do, let us make the most of parenting workshops, which are crafted to help us learn and become more empowered parents.
Workshops help parents deepen their connection to their children and foster self-love, responsibility, resiliency and self-esteem. You are guaranteed to leave our workshops with new tools that you can begin using immediately.
Each workshop is:
- Designed for parents/caregivers of toddlers to teens. We will tailor the presentation for the specific audience.
- 90 minutes or length can be customized to meet your needs.
- We only have online workshops
- Duration: – 8 days