The pace and pressure of daily living often results in less than optimal domestic practices in homes, and a wide range of complications result from single-parent families, absentee parents, over-busy lives, and a set of parental attitudes resulting from the social experiences of the baby boomers who grew up during the sixties and seventies. Children today often have to confront much harder situations than their parents had to – with drugs, diseases, security, life styles and breakdowns of communities, and today’s parents have to deal with these without the benefit of extended families, the passing down of parenting skills or even suitable role models. As parents, how do we develop life-long enriching relationships with our children, from which both we and they can learn? How do we strengthen our emotional capacity to engage and connect with our children that nourish them and us? How can the school assist us to parent more strongly and more sensibly, to give our children both the security to grow straight and the freedom to grow tall?
Parents and Parenting Discussion.doc (33.00 kb)
Outcome of mini summit - visions and strategies.ppt (381.00 kb)
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