Family Support Unit offers parenting tips

Officers from the Family Support Unit (back left to
right) Sgt Jerrian Myles, Detective Mark Miller, and
Detective Dausea Scott. Front left to right DC Jane
Mc Farlane, Inspector Angelique Howell, and DC Carla
Gratrick

Friday,  January 20, 2006

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) family support unit said that it recognises that raising a happy, healthy child without stressing yourself out in the process is not easy.

“You love your child and you want the best for him or her, but boy oh, boy, parenting can be a real challenge sometimes,” said representatives from the unit.

Parents face many issues from kids not doing what parents tell them to do or giving them a bad attitude and creating tension, to children lying, or not knowing how to motivate youngsters.

According to the unit parents need to be practical, and children need to know exactly what is expected of them. 

Parents need to make it clear how they want their kids to respond when they’re disappointed, corrected or given an instruction. Instead of saying ‘stop having a bad attitude’, tell your children how to have a good attitude, the unit advises.

Children need practical ideas for handling temptations and dealing with annoying behaviour and parents are the primary source for teaching children how to handle life.

Parents are training children for the future; the things your kids learn now about obedience, honour, sacrifice, working hard and handling anger will carry them into adulthood.

Many of the problems children face are similar to those that adults are challenged with and members of the unit said parents can look for adult solutions and then break them down to a child’s developmental stage.

The unit also noted that anyone facing parenting challenges is not alone and there are resources in Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac that are available to them.

For more information contact the Family Support Unit at 946-9185 or Department of Children and Family Services at 946-0024. Also the Department of Children and Family Services in Cayman Brac at 948-2331.

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