Health and education for children in Chiapas

At Melel we believe that the work we do with the children could not be possible if we did not include the families in the process. That is why, throughout the year, we held several workshops with the mothers and fathers of the children who attend our early childhood center. Specifically, in the months of September and October we work on the issues of nutrition and upbringing. In the Nutrition and Perceptive Feeding workshop, it was sought that the participants knew the various nutrients and to know how they contribute to their children's nutrition. Likewise, we worked on ways to include them in food to make it balanced, motivating the families to use perceptive feeding strategies for the upbringing of their daughters and sons. In the positive parenting workshop, the beneficiaries were asked to reflect on their conflict resolution strategies with their children, and identify new ways to establish limits and resolve conflicts without violence. To do this, we worked on parents to reflect, from their children's point of view, the emotions that are generated with the ways of resolving the conflicts they currently use. At the same time, conflict resolution strategies were explored through dramatization and, as a result, collective reflection was generated. These workshops allow families not only to acquire knowledge in relation to the topics studied, but also to share experiences around the upbringing of their daughters and sons, generating a space of trust in which to express themselves.