The partnership “Learning Positive Discipline” (LPD) will take place between August 2013 and July 2015.
The overall aim of the project is to encourage the adults to consider how they relate to the children, to discover a wider range of tools and methods to solve behavioral problems of children based on communication and positive discipline. In this way, by improving knowledge, skills and self-esteem of adults (parents and people who interact with adults: teachers, psychologists, school counselors), to prevent the occurrence of serious behavioral and emotional problems of children.
The specific objectives of the partnership are:
- assimilation by the adults of some knowledge concerning problematic behaviors, conflict management and positive discipline
- development of adult skills to manage behavioral problems of children through positive discipline, to stimulate positive behavior and give support to children with a high risk of committing acts of violence
- promote certain behaviors and attitudes change ineffective in adult relationships with children and learning behaviors based on positive discipline relationship
- encourage the transfer of good practices and cooperation between European institutions on positive discipline techniques
- quality-improvement of the organizations which offer adult learning contexts through transfer of best practices and European cooperation
- promoting the acquisition of the key European competences by adults
These objectives will be achieved by:
- six project meetings (Romania, Germany, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain)
- two European seminars ("Positive discipline techniques", "Communication in the discipline") within which will be an active exchange between partners regarding best practices regarding positive discipline skills development among adults
- work-shops documentation and systematization of information on issues of discipline management program to achieve positive discipline skills development
- the development of sessions/courses/workshops with adults about positive discipline
- achievement of a research to identify current practices related to family education in various European countries to identify some perceptions on effective methods of disciplining children and to determine the similarities and differences
- dissemination and valorisation activities (project site, articles, brochures, posters)
- monitoring and evaluation activities
This project addresses to a target group formed of:
- Parents who want to improve their parenting skills, which manifest the desire to know their children better, but also future parents because parental education is an activity of information and training is aimed not only to parents but also prospective parents (they will be selected mainly from rural areas among disadvantaged groups in economically weak areas)
- People who interact with children (teachers, psychologists, school counselors) who want to discover positive disciplinary methods and tools to apply them in their professional activity with students or aiming to provide support to parents who wish to improve their knowledge, disciplinary skills and positive child behaviors
- People working in adult education
Those who interact with children (teachers, psychologists, school counselors) will discover positive disciplinary methods and tools of “problem” students, will easily find solutions to the inter relation problems with the students that come from diverse backgrounds and develop in turn parenting skills. Educators have the responsibility to offer to their students' parents tools and useful information so that they acquire and develop skills necessary for optimal interactions with their children. Participating in project activities, educators will have information about positive discipline and will gain more confidence when parents will seek to solve problems on their children's education techniques. Parents will discover ways to resolve conflicts with their children and to improve relations with them. Participating in project activities, parents will gain knowledge and skills necessary for raising and educating children, will know what is actually positive disciplining the child and which are the appropriate disciplinary methods that favor the development of better relations.