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Helping to solve conflicts
between parents and their children
can sometimes be as easy as
teaching them to listen to one
another.

So said Peninsula Community
Association program coordinator
Bill Scott, who will run a “preven-
tative training program” designed
to enhance family relationships,
Starting next week.

“The sessions are for parents
and children to learn to communi-
cate with one another and to

- problem solve together,” he said.

Entitled Averting Conflict
Together, the program is aimed at
adults and at children aged
between five and ten years old, he
said.

Suggestions that the program
should be aimed at rebellious
teenagers, rather than pre-
pubescent children are swept aside
by Scott.

It’s never too early to teach a
young child and its parents to open
up two-way communication lines
that can last a lifetime and which

early in the upbringing process, he
said.

“Conflict 1s a daily occurrence
and people need skills to deal with
it. There are very few programs
around to deal with conflict reso-
lution,” he added.

Problems associated with teen-
agers such as curfews, dating and
drugs and alcohol can often be
headed off if parents and their
offspring learn to understand each
other’s point of view from an early
age, he said.

““ACT stresses an emotional

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partnership between the parents
and the children,” he said.

“Problems are seen as chal-
lenges to be resolved jointly and
with the equal involvement of all
concemed.”

One group of five- to seven-
year-olds and another group of
eight- to ten-year-olds will join
parents in the course to examine
conflicts while under the guidance
of Scott and fellow coordinator
Elaine Venables.

This is probably the first project
of its kind in North America that

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“Together i is the key to conflict resolution program

involves both parties interacting
with one another on a problem
solving basis, Scott said.

As the program develops, the
two groups will learn to play roles,
and to take part in exercises and
discussion groups to idenufy and
deal with the emotions that give
rise to conflict.

Key to the learning process is
teaching parents and kids to
respect one another’s points of
view and to commit themselves to

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