*Content is available in Punjabi and English.
After coming to Canada, there are many new experiences for your entire family such as finding a home, finding work, settling into a new community, finding a suitable school for your children, understanding the laws related to child-rearing and the cultural differences between your home country and Canada. Knowing that you need to deal with all these things, we also want to encourage you to take time to parent and communicate with your children. Also set aside a bit of time to have fun with your children!
As a father or mother or grandparent do you feel that your children/grandchildren:
Watch too much TV or spend too much time gaming or on their devices?
Have stopped talking to you?
Don’t listen to you?
Don’t eat their food?
Are getting in trouble at home and in school?
Don’t get to bed on time or up on time?
Are not being responsible or taking any responsibility?
In this one-of-a-kind e-learning course, you will meet real parents, grandparents and children who have experienced the transition from parenting in their place of origin to Canada and have maintained and grown their healthy parent-child relationships. Their stories are unscripted and real. *We do suggest you complete New to Canada? Balancing Canadian Parenting and Traditional Values prior to completing this course.
Course Objectives
- Learn about your parenting style and more about the three parenting styles
- Explain how to ‘Set the Stage’ for open communication between you and your children
- Identify the typical ages & stages of a child’s development to better understand where your child is and where they are going
- List the traits & characteristics we hope our children will have and describe how our discipline methods can help develop these
- Describe what discipline actually is and the difference between discipline and punishment
- Explain the difference between misbehaviour and behaviour
- Identify when a problem actually belongs to your child, you or both
- Learn about ‘Natural Play’ and how it fits into a child’s development
- Understand how play has changed over the years and how this may affect a child’s development
- Understand why play is important
Course Materials
- Content translated into Punjabi in PDF format
- A Word from Baldev Videos (Baldev Mutta is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS).
- Parent-to-Parent Instructional Videos
- People’s Perspective Videos: Parents, grandparents and youth share their stories and experiences of what worked well for them or challenges they face.
- Take Away Tip Sheets (Downloadable & Printable Information Sheets).
- Online Notes (if you want to make electronic notes throughout the course).
*Bonus free access to one additional eLearning course upon completion of this one.
*We would like to acknowledge and thank Baldev Mutta and The Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS) for their time and contributions to this e-learning course.
Baldev Mutta has been in the field of social work for the last 45+ years. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS). PCHS is a Health Service Provider in the Central West and Mississauga Halton LHIN geographic areas.
Besides his work in mental health, addictions, services for seniors, domestic violence, he has spent his life educating parenting on child-rearing. He has received many community awards for his work on equity, community development, diversity management, and organizational change.
In addition, we would also like to express our gratitude to the parents, grandparents and volunteers who generously and candidly shared their own personal experiences as newcomers to Canada and made our People’s Perspective videos possible.
A special thank you to Malton Women Council for their generous contributions through our many conversations and the People’s Perspective videos.
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