Author name: The Parent Centre

Positive Parenting Skills Training For Working Parents

The  Positive Parenting Skills Training For Working Parents is aimed at parents and caregivers of children of various ages. The training focuses on understanding children’s behaviour, and effective and positive ways of responding to difficult parenting situations they experience with their children. This is usually an 8-session training programme, with each session lasting 3 ½

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The role of supportive fathers in raising successful young men

While the role of mothers is quite aptly lauded, one of the unsung heroes in a child’s life is their father, especially when it comes to raising young boys. Studies show that children who have a supportive father that shows both emotional and cognitive assistance with learning have stronger peer relationships and also perform better

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Teens battle mental health ahead of exams  

Final exams are approaching, and the pressure can be extremely intense for teenagers. Research shows that two-thirds of adolescent’s experience levels of exam stress that mental health organisations would describe as ‘worrying.’ Further to this, teen suicide which is motivated by exam pressure is becoming a growing concern amongst educators, parents, and social workers.   “Self-harm due

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Working Parents are Burnt out, Unsupported by Employers, Desperate to Connect with their Kids    

Survey highlights the pain points of working parents in South Africa. Being a working parent has never been easy, and it’s even less so in today’s digitally ‘always-connected’ world. The expectations of modern workers far exceed what was acceptable fifty years ago, which was to close shop promptly at 5pm and leave work at the

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