Parents can play a vital role in helping children deal with the problem of peer pressure. Parents often get nightmares about how their teenager kids would be dealing with peer pressure. They are often panicked to narrate the least when they feel that their children fear to get lost in the crowd and they shower them with all sorts of advices. They enforce their own set rules upon their children and are dumbstruck to witness them broken before their eyes and they are not able to do anything despite screaming their lungs out. All this is happening because of their inability to distinguishably intervene between the child and the various pressures he/she undergoes.
In order to educate them about the significant role that a parent has and the possibilities in which he/she can support the child, a one day workshop was held at Karkardooma, one of the centers of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan founded/mentored by His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj ji under its Drug Abuse Eradication Program [Bodh] located in East Delhi where more than 150 parents participated. The welcome ceremony of the participants commenced with Walk forward, Walk Backward’ Activity where some questions regarding their own daily lifestyle were put to them and whosoever could not answer had to enter the door with backward facing. The main aim of this game was to instil within them the importance of attentiveness and carefulness which they must implement while looking after their children at any front so that they can ensure productivity and holistic development at both sides. During the workshop, through demonstrations, activities on smooth parenting, videos on “children see, children do” were thematically screened to motivate and remind the parents about the significance of synchronization between what they say and what they do. Often, parents complain about the rebellious behaviour of the children for they believe in suppressing or loading their children with the experiences that they have gathered all their life and they don’t allow the children to grow at their own pace in order for having a bunch of experiences on their own. Therefore through “find your puzzle” activity, parents were educated on friend vs. boss attitude. Having the right attitude towards the child is the key to make them do what a parent wants because bossy behaviour will eventually take them away from the parents.
All the parents got a new insight towards “being a parent” and also asked the organization to make this as a regular feature on monthly basis.
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