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The Family Care Program (PAF) started its Workshop on Parenting Skills on January 27^th of this year. The first session was given at the PAF installations; there was a presentation activity where both parents and their children worked on self- knowledge.

It will be over the course of 11 sessions, that 14 families will develop the necessary parenting skills to learn the correct interactions between parents and their children.  On the last Friday of the month, a total of 15 fathers and mothers along with 29 children and teenagers will attend the workshop to do different programmed activities.

The Parenting Skills Workshop is divided into four modules: Self-knowledge, Upbringing, Conflict Resolution and Final Thoughts. .

The main topics of each session will be: What type of a mother/father am I ?; What is behind an emotion and how do adults react to them?; Listening to one and another; Communication Skills and Parenting Styles of Education and finally Conflict Resolution.  

During the Parenting Skills Workshop, there will also be three recreational activities: The first is a getting to know each other between, fathers, mothers and children. The second one is to identify the manner in which parents and children communicate during an outing. Finally, and as a closing of the workshop, the parents will be in charge of planning an outing and during the planning parents must take into account the listening, communication and conflict resolution skills.

At the beginning and at the end of the workshop a "Positive parenting" ranking will be applied, this is an instrument which can evaluate the development of parental skills.