Parenting is always an adventure, but parenting a Girl child can often seem particularly challenging: in a time when girls and their parents receive so many conflicting messages about what it is to be a girl, it's hard to know how to guide them to becoming confident, capable women. From the new world of social media to old problems like bullying in the school yard, there are many challenges in growing up and parenting in today's world. To acquaint the parents about these unprecedented challenges, cropping during transition stages, an orientation program was conducted on CAREFUL PARENTING OF A GIRL CHILD by the Sexual Harassment and Protection Committee on August 31, 2019 especially for the mothers of the girls of class V.
The session was presided by the girls of classes XI (Dhruvisha Patel & Afrin Shekh) & XII (Prinal Patel & Dhwani Patel) where they provided practical advice to the mothers on how to teach girls to seek out and build strong, positive friendships; express themselves in a healthy way; and stand up for themselves and for others, empowering young girls to be kind, confident, and resilient leaders who work together and build each other up. In this epidemic of stress and anxiety mothers were further guided how to help girls in growing up and balancing their emotions in this stressful time. In this beauty conscious world, girls generally inundate a misconception of starving and maintaining their figures. But the session dispelled this myth further highlighting its far-reaching effects on health. The Head girl provided a series of simple, age-appropriate strategies to help parents how to talk to younger girls about puberty, counter the media messages and open friendly conversations about their personal problems. By doing so, parents can ensure that their girls thrive as they enter the adult world. The meeting sought a loud response and attendance of the mothers who actively involved themselves in the discussion.

TEZINDER KAUR WARIAH