Dreamdog Foundation

Interactive Parenting Ideas:

Parenting Workshops and Seminars will reinforce all the values and messages that the DreamDog Foundation supports including: positive parenting, self-esteem building in our children, innovative problem solving, mentoring and other related topics. The purpose of the workshops will be to bring parents together in open dialogue to discuss how we can facilitate our children working through common issues and finding their own solutions. Speakers will focus on self-esteem building in our young, developmentally appropriate approaches to empowering children, teaching respect for other people’s differences, and opening the lines of communication between parents and their children. Special parent to parent mentoring programs would also be organized and integrated with advanced online communications so that the messages for the workshops would be supported and extended beyond the specific workshop session. The key benefits of the DreamDog Foundation activities and functions in this area will be:

· better parenting skills in dealing with childhood anxieties and issues,

· idea sharing with other parents

· greater problem solving and creativity in children, with the support from parents or care providers

· delivery of empowering and self-esteem building books and multi-media material to disadvantaged children,

· enhanced sensitivity for other people’s differences, whether cultural, racial, religious or physical differences due to disabilities,

· lowered sibling aggression and greater love in the family,

· ongoing online support for parents.