DOHA: The Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has launched a new programme to promote effective parenting in Qatari families at a cost of QR100,000.
So far, 75 people have benefited from the programme including families, mothers, grandmothers, and would-be wives, QRC
said yesterday.
The programme comprises a three-day intensive series of lectures and workshops by psychologists and education experts.
Several important topics and concepts are covered, including the role of a social worker, effective management of behaviour, family education, ‘I make the change’, distress of widows and divorcees, and resolution of marital discord.
The programme has a positive impact on society by creating a socially trained, self-managed group with professional and academic experience needed for child upbringing, said a statement.
It is mainly addressed to women, as they have the deepest influence on children. Men will also be included in future phase of the programme.
Rashid bin Saad Al Mohannadi of QRC said, “The family, particularly the parents have the biggest influence on the child’s personality. Children spend most of their time with their parents and assimilate their thought, attitudes, values, and behaviours. Parents are role models for children. Behaviour has more effect than just verbal advice.”
Effective parenting, he remarked, is a global tested-and-proven programme designed to improve the way parents bring up their children. Its key premise is that all educators, including parents, need training.
The programme offers variable techniques to bring children up, based on self-discipline and responsibility in the face of the current challenges in relation to behavioural refinement.
The Effective Parenting programme is part of QRC’s economic, social, and professional empowerment activities that support the vulnerable groups and improve their conditions towards sufficiency and then productivity.
Women are the main focus of such programmes, to be integrated into the developmental context, through training, rehabilitation, awareness building, capacity building, and cognitive and attitudinal enhancement, said the statement. The Peninsula
