Al Jasra Cultural Salon affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, held its cultural salon, including a lecture on raising children, moderated by the writer Hanan Badie, the salon coordinator, and presented by Sarah Riyashi, who discussed the Positive Parenting Strategies Conference for the year 2024.
Riyashi spoke about the most prominent challenges facing parents with their children, indicating that they include bullying in schools, what is shown on screens and social media, etc. She reviewed modern parenting methods, which she considered a science like all sciences, developing, advancing, and keeping pace with societal developments.
Riyashi explained that the goal of the positive parenting curriculum is to build relationships based on respect, stressing the importance of raising children to be responsible and contribute effectively to their communities. She said that Adler's studies show that children need, from a young age, to belong and feel important within their families and communities. Accordingly, undesirable behaviour decreases with a sense of fulfilled belonging, noting that the basis of the approach is that the educational method combines gentleness and firmness, understanding the child's feelings, sympathizing with him and respecting his being. Then comes the firmness that enables parents to set a clear framework for the child and work on modifying behaviour. Riyashi stressed that positive upbringing requires effective and practical tools and strategies in order to train children to acquire life and social skills. She noted the necessity of understanding the child and taking into account the stages of his physical, mental and emotional development, which she estimated would enable parents to deal with challenges better. In this context, she called for the use of reward as an incentive, or punishment to modify undesirable behaviour. She explained that positive upbringing enables parents to create internal incentives for the child. With the importance of building healthy relationships and continuous dialogue, to teach children life and social skills, while instilling values that are consistent with our religion, society and culture.
From left Hanan Badie, and Sarah Riyashi
