There is substantial evidence that a positive parent-adolescent relationship consisting of a combination of parental supervision and support protects adolescents against delinquency [ 9, 10]).
Mockbill runs a number of initiatives including the parent forum and a positive parenting programme.
This study evaluated a positive parenting program to Brazilian mothers who used corporal punishment with their children.
The associations of encouragement and covert control with desirable child dietary behaviors were found to be stronger for children who were reared in a positive parenting context.
Objectives: this paper addresses the issue of offering parents organized support and the findings from a recent evaluation of a positive parenting service which aimed to do just that.
More precisely, parenting behaviors that involve higher monitoring, lower discipline, inconsistency and negative controlling, and a positive parenting style are associated with good development of inhibition capacities in children.
A positive parenting environment allows the child to experience this as part of self-regulation, knowing that it is all part of the pathway to growing healthy children.
All of this suggests not only that a positive parenting program makes parents better at listening and responding to a child: as that child grows into adulthood, his mental and physical health alike may be improved by having had a better parent.
Parents identified numerous strengths in the intervention including (i) normalisation of preterm parenting, (ii) information about development, (iii) creating a safe environment, (iv) building a positive parent-infant relationship, (v) strategies to manage behavioural issues, (vi) building adaptive coping skills and (vii) a focus on 'learning to parent together'.
Positive parenting: The Parent Centre The Parent Centre, an NPO in the Western Cape, runs a Positive Parenting Skills programme which mostly serves families from poor communities.
This probably resulted in an overlap of families with a positive parenting status in the control group.
