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KINGSTON FAMILY SUPPORT PARENTING PROGRAMS:
Pit Stop Overview
Kingston Family Support Service together with Better Men Australia are joining to bring a new Pit Stop Parenting Program for Men to Kingston.
Pit Stop was created by men for men, to get a better handle on what Fathers can do to help rise happy and healthy children. Program would provide fathers with:
- Strategies how to develop Healthy Parenting Style
- Improve family Communication and closeness
- How to steering children through stressful stages
- How to discipline children
- Provide evidences why Dads matter to children
- Balancing life, Work and Family
- Motivate Dads to be committed, confident, capable and caring
Pit Stop has something for every Dad no matter how old are children. Program has been designed for executive Dads, separated Dads, solo Dads, teenage Dads, step Dads, grand Dads, first time Dads, Dads of infants, young children, primary schoolers, high schoolers or Dads of particular cultures.
Strengthening and Raising Healthy Families Program.
The purpose of the program is to provide parents with support and education in raising healthy children and families through the use of mutual respect, knowledge development of ages and stages of child development, the utilisation of positive strategies and boundaries to yield better outcomes in child behaviour (through the use of positive discipline techniques), emotional and social development and mental health.
The program would be structured to train and educate parents on positive parenting, increase community resources awareness and utilisation of services.
The program will provide parents with information that will empower them to understand the need for positive parenting and assist with raising healthy families.
