Mentoring children during school holidays

For many parents worldwide, motivating their children to study and be engaged in school is very difficult, many of them struggle and rely on teachers to do this job.

The irony is that teachers claim they can only guide them in learning, but real learning should happen at home in terms of implementing what students have learned and doing their homework, and it should be monitored and mentored by their parents.

The Department of Education believes that schools and parents will be working together to raise the future generation successfully, despite the struggles mentioned above.

The reality is that they all have to make efforts together, especially in the school holidays when parents are working and their children are at home spending their time on activities that may not be productive, including the excessive use of computers and digital devices.

To help the parents during the summer holidays AUSPAK Women Association (APWA) and Young Innovators Australia (YIA) held an interactive online session on Wednesday 28 December with parents to help them learn about how they can facilitate their child’s learning and mentoring using the 3E Mentoring Approach.

This was live-streamed on Facebook (https://fb.watch/ihTYoC1Swo/) for all to also learn from this session and to allow the public to comment and join in on the video.

The session was hosted by Shayyan Ali, the Club coordinator of Young Innovators Australia and Shafqat Ali, founder of Young Innovators Australia.

At the start, Shayyan opened the session and introduced the parents and guests who were attending the live stream that night.

Parents spoke about what difficulties they faced during the holidays to interact with their children.

Later in the session parents brainstormed solutions to the common problems that can be implemented.

Many of the guests also gave their background of who they were, and their experiences.

Sonali Luthra, Principal of Al-Faisal College Campbelltown who spoke about the importance of introducing children to different cultures, events and experiences to broaden their child’s perspective.

Maqsoon Gill also has been working with children in education for over 25 years and spoke about the sort of challenges he identified such as ‘boring holidays’.