Empowering and supporting parents is the focus of an upcoming National Parenting seminar.

President of the National Parent Teacher Association, Walter Stewart, has linked rising deviant behaviour in society to inadequate parenting, stressing that many parents themselves require proper training and guidance to effectively shape and support their children.

“It seeks to identify the need for support for our parents because, as we are all aware, parenting is indeed a skill. And like with any other skill, there needs to be support and guidance in order to ensure that we can get it right as parents. We have been, as parents, labelled as ‘good for nothing’, ‘worthless’, ‘incompetent’, et cetera, and this seminar, this initiative is one of the ways that we are able to get the tools and equip ourselves with the confidence necessary in order to be able to parent our charges.”