For many parents worldwide, motivating their children to study and be engaged in school is very difficult, many of them struggle and rely on teachers to do this job. The irony is that teachers claim they can only guide them in learning, but real learning should happen at home in terms of implementing what students have learned and doing their homework, and it should be monitored and mentored by their parents. The department of education believes that schools and parents will be working together to raise the future generation successfully, despite the struggles mentioned above. The reality is that they all struggle together, especially in the school holidays when parents are working and their children are at home spending their time on activities that may not be productive, including the excessive use of computers and digital devices.
To help the parents during the summer holidays AUSPAK Women Association (APWA) and Young Innovators Australia (YIA) held an interactive online session on Wednesday 28th December with parents to voice out the struggles of parents, and help them learn about how they can facilitate their child’s learning and mentor their children using the 3E Mentoring Approach. This was live-streamed on Facebook (https://fb.watch/ihTYoC1Swo/) for the public to also learn from this session and to allow the public to comment and join in on the video.
The session was hosted by Shayyan Ali the Club coordinator of Young Innovators Australia and Shafqat Ali founder of Young Innovators Australia. At the start, Shayyan opened the session and introduced the Parents and Guests who were attending the live stream that night. Parents spoke about what difficulties they faced during the holidays to interact with their children. Later in the session parents brainstormed solutions to the common problems that can be implemented. Many of the guests also gave their background of who they are, and their experiences such as Sonali Luthra, principal of Al-Faisal College Campbelltown; who spoke about the importance of introducing children to different cultures, events and experiences to broaden their child’s perspective. Other guests such as Maqsoon Gill also has been working with children in education for over 25 years and spoke about the sorts of challenges he identifies such as ‘boring holidays’.
Mr Shafqat Ali the President of Young Innovators Australia discussed the 3E Parenting Approach, an approach that can be used to help engage children during the school holidays. A recording of a summary of the 3E techniques can be found on Facebook: https://fb.watch/ihUnDCz2L0/. He said that “If you want a flower or a fruit look after the roots”. He also said that “Parenting is 18 years project and if it is messed up, it’s a lifelong project”.
Later on, they discuss the upcoming summer Holiday workshops in 2023 and how to get updates on that. In the end, they play an iQuiz session through Kahoot. Parent Saba Khalid was the winner of that Kahoot!
At the end of the session, Shafqat thanked the parents and guests for their participation and close the session.
If you would like to see the live stream go to Facebook through this link: https://fb.watch/ihTYoC1Swo/