Several interesting sessions are being held in Mojácar, at the Rey Alabez Secondary School, under the title “How to connect with our children?”, bringing together educators, parents and pupils around positive discipline and responsible and respectful education to address the reduction in the use and abuse of addictions among the youngest.
These workshops, for responsible families and educators, are based on experience-based methods that help enter the world of young people and in this way discover what works for them and understand what they may be thinking, feeling or expressing.
The aim is a change in the way of looking at childhood and youth, where the focus is not so much on the child as on the adults in their lives. They are experience-based workshops, not just theoretical, in which there are addressed important issues of awareness, which are what generate change. Among the matters to be dealt with, secure bonds and attachments, limits and rules stand out, among others.
Two sessions have already been held for teachers where conflicts in the classroom, teacher-student relationship and management from an emotional point of view were addressed. It is about providing teachers with the resources and tools to make their work easier. A good relationship between the two helps to detect whether a student is in a state of vulnerability that causes them to fall into some type of addiction, whether legal or not. An adequate socio-emotional education avoids falling into dependencies, whether physical or social.
In their second phase, these workshops will also be taught to families, showing in an experience-based way the suitability of positive discipline and awareness of the problems that may arise with children as the best way to face and resolve them. As a continuation of this workshop, parents will be able to receive personalised assistance if they want to continue working along this line.
In a third workshop, children will be worked with, first and second-year ESO pupils, where they will be listened to and work will be done on the use and abuse of new technologies. The limit at which addiction to electronic devices would be crossed. It is also intended to address another very important issue that, alarmingly, is increasing among young people, as is the case with online gambling.
Video games are, sometimes, the gateway for minors where progress in the game is offered in exchange for money. The practice is not illegal, but it creates the need to use money. It is estimated that 24% of young people aged between 15 and 17 have access to this type of video game.
These workshops are organised by the Junta de Andalucía, through the Regional Health and Consumer Affairs Ministry; Almería Provincial Council; Mojácar Council and the Spanish Government.
