How to organize a vacation for a teenager?

A webinar on “Teenagers on vacation” was conducted on the International Children’s Day. Webinar was organized by a USAID “TEENS- available and qualitative help” project team. Committee on the Rights of Child of the RK Ministry of Education and Science has taken role of the media partner.

Project was realized by Woman Leadership Fund in the focus of “Initiative to support of effective management”.

On the webinar parents discovered an online-service http://www.teenslive.kz  and gained an information from practicing psychologist Elena Smolyanova about how to organize vacation of their teenagers with the maximum efficiency. Questions were answered, such as “Features of the teenage years”, “How to understand when a child needs support and your presence, and when he needs freedom and time to for himself?”, “Right and wrong attitude to children”, some practical exercises were shown to parents. Parents used their chance to ask questions from a specialist and receive answers to them.  

“With the help of the given event we were able to raise psychological literacy of interested in it parents, on the eve of the coming exams and summer vacation, which in return will help to solve a problem of psychological stress in families and prevention of teenager’s suicide and deviant behavior” said manager of the project Svetlana Bogatyreva.

831 people registered on the webinar and 247 teenager parent attempted the webinar intramurally. All the participants received recorded video and presentation. Materials of the webinar will be in open access on the social networks.

“I received answers to many urgent questions that are related to relationship with teenagers. Events of such forms should be conducted on different themes, because it’s a very easy way to gain information for busy parents” said one of the event participants.

You can see recorded video of the webinar via the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_XyTxySXJ4&feature=share