Parenting with Purpose

This new initiative consists of two parent education programmes.

Parenting Consciously to create a positive future for our children has been created to encourage parents/caregivers and key support people to look at how they parent,  where they learnt their parenting skills and are they the most productive skills to use when raising children.  It is a six module programme.

Magic Moments – communicating for co operation focuses on using non-physical ways of discipline, and encourages parents and caregivers to build strong and caring relationships with their children, whilst giving clear boundaries.  It is a three module programme.

The overall objective of this programme is to:

• Deliver research based information through discussion and exercises that will give participants the understanding and knowledge to raise their children using appropriate discipline in a non-physical way.
  
  The information will be based on SKIP principles and philosophies and the research undertaken by the Office of the Children's Commission, University of Otago and the Children's Issues Centre and any other research that supports the primary research.
  
  The programme will provide participants with activities that they can implement within their family context. The activities will be uncomplicated, undemanding, straightforward and simple.