MRT Parenting – The Act of Parenting
Parenting for Women Synapsis
The Parenting and Family Values curriculum focuses on re-structuring family values and individual priorities. This curriculum targets: Parenting Values, Individual Values, Child Development by age group (infant to young adult), Children’s Values, Children’s Needs, Behavioral Management Strategies, Coping with Children’s Problems, Healthy Family Values and Objectives, Adolescents and Teens, and Problems with Adolescents and Teens.
The program’s mission is to strategically and systematically teach/re-teach parents the role of being “the provider” and what that entails.
Moreover, it depicts that family values do not include egocentric decision making, but rather what is best for the child and the family unit. Furthermore, the program takes a look at not the sole definition of being a parent: “One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or mother” but rather what it means to be a parent: the active process of parenting.
- Decreasing/Eliminating ego-centric decision making to include substance use
- Managing anger by defining individual needs (to include the needs of the child)
- Stabilizing mood and mental health (assisting parenting in decision making process)
- Identifying filters/healthy coping mechanisms for children and self
- Setting goals for a healthier family life
- Mending relationships- working through glitches
- Digging through suppressed feelings/wants/needs of the child and the individual
- Help re-identify with family
Parenting for Men Synapsis
This program is aimed toward father figures (i.e.: big brothers, grandparents, step-parents). It utilizes two curriculums to teach the client the parenting of a mother, father and parent (note that all of these are different roles).
Upon completion of the Parenting an d Family Values curriculum, clients then tackle the curriculum of Family Support: Responsibly Fulfilling A Life’s Obligation which covers beliefs and values encompassing the long-term benefit and care of their children.
Moreover, the curriculum takes a good look at financial obligation (money management) to care for a child/loved one, how to create a financial budget to be able to meet the demands/needs of a child, evaluating what a good father is, how changes effect children and making the best effort to have a good relationship with the child’s mother, coping with anger and reality, future possibilities with children, evaluating lifestyle and making decisions for the future.
