Experience of Mentoring through Acquisition of Positive Parenting Skills in Children’s Daily Care Centres Cover Image

Mentorystės patirtys padedant tėvams ugdytis pozityviosios tėvystės įgūdžius vaikų dienos centruose
Experience of Mentoring through Acquisition of Positive Parenting Skills in Children’s Daily Care Centres

Author(s): Sigita Burvytė, Vida Gudžinskienė
Subject(s): Preschool education, Behaviorism, Evaluation research, Family and social welfare, Sociology of Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: children’s daily care centre; mentoring for parents; positive parenting;

Summary/Abstract: The current article reveals mentorship experiences of helping parents to develop their skills of positive parenting in children’s daily care centres (CDCC). Mentors for parents (social pedagogues and social workers) are perceived as persons enabling parents to manage the situations of children’s education applying positive parenting skills and observing the principles of positive parenting. The current article analyses CDC, which are in the process of developing their functions and traditions on the social scale. The object of the research is mentoring experience of specialists working in CDC to help parents, whose children attend daily care centres, develop their positive parenting skills. The purpose of the study is to reveal the experiences of CDC social workers and social pedagogues of working with parents, whose children attend daily care centres, seeking to develop their positive parenting skills. The study questions: 1) What possibilities are provided to parents to acquire positive parenting skills in CDC? 2) What are the experiences of parents’ mentorship seeking for the development of their positive parenting skills?

  • Issue Year: 130/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 165-183
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Lithuanian