December 20, 2019
KW Counselling Services has been offering quality positive parenting programs throughout Waterloo Region for over 50 years. Accredited under the Canadian Centre for Accreditation Family Life Education Standards, our Parenting with Passion programs cover a wide range of topics designed for parents and other adults interested in the wellbeing of children and adolescents.
November 21, 2019
According to Stats Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey, there were 64,575 same-sex couple families in Canada in 2011 (up 42.4% from 2006). That same year, 9,600 children were living with same-sex parents. Here are some tips for answering questions and having conversations with kids.
For the past two years you have been hearing about (and engaging with us) in our design project, Exploring the Future of Parenting Education. The wait is over! Our final community report on the project is now available.
Parenthood is one of life’s most important journeys. It’s a journey of life-long learning, rich with tales that must be shared and celebrated. At KW Counselling Services, we believe that by building connections bound by shared and unique experience, we can strengthen the fabric of our communities.
July brings us to the close of the first six months of our new project, Exploring the Future of Parenting Education. As many of you already know, we are engaging the citizens of Waterloo Region in a dialogue about parenting education. Parenting is a life long journey—we don’t always know where we’re heading or how we’ll get there, but we’re certainly learning every step of the way. HOW people want to make that learning happen is what we want to know. From a “design thinking” perspective, we ask people to share with us how they learn their parenting skills or how they gain information about parenting. Then we ask them to imagine, in an ideal world (with no barriers or constraints) how they would most like to learn this. We invite people to explore—and imagine—the future of parenting education.
