13/05/2022
Raising children especially teenagers can be challenging for most parents,especially today. Technology advancement, family conflicts, child protection concerns just to mention a few are threats to positive parenting. Many parents are dealing with a number of issues that negatively influence their children and are harmful to their health and wellbeing.
Being a teenager also comes with its own difficulties. This transition period from childhood to adulthood is marked with a series of physical,emotional,social,cognitive and psychological changes. With changes taking place and different pressures being faced at home,at school and within the community- many young people find themselves not sure what to do or who to talk to. Sometimes they get wrong advice and end up making decisions that may be harmful to them. Some of the deviant behaviours witnessed in the Country in the recent past(e.g burning of schools, indiscipline,sexual abuse etc) among high schoolers could be a manifestation of of a non supportive environment as well as a coping mechanism for this age set.
There's need to journey with our teenagers throughout their developmental milestones for better and healthy outcomes.
It was an honor for Blossoms Childcare Solutions to have facilitated a parenting training organized by St. Aloysius Gonzaga Sec school- Langata.
