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The Social Development Center (SDC) held a workshop for mothers on early childhood development for the second year. Around 30 mothers, expectant mothers, and teachers attended the workshop led by Cheryn Kelley, a trainer from the educational NGO Action Care. Kelley presented a holistic approach to early childhood development focusing on activity-based learning. She discussed practical strategies like making reading exciting, teaching new words through flashcards, and positive discipline techniques. The mothers enjoyed learning these modern childrearing methods and said they planned to adopt them. The workshop aimed to help mothers develop their parenting skills to raise their children for success in today's society.

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Follow us on twitter.com/QFTelegraph Community 11 Thursday 2 june 2011 reflections on action care Making motherhood work SDC holds training workshop for mothers FOR THE modern mother living in Qatar, bringing up children can be a daunting task. It is for this reason that for the second year in a row, Social Development Center (SDC) held a workshop dedicated to teaching mothers about early childhood development. In an attempt to fulfill its vision of supporting families, SDC invited Cheryn Kelley, a trainer at educational NGO Action Care, to speak with a group of mothers and teachers about early childhood development. Around 30 mothers, moms-to-be and teachers packed into a classroom at the SDC headquarters and listened to Kelleys every word. Kelley, who has worked in the region for four years, said she delivered a holistic approach to early childhood development. Its activity-based learning that we are teaching here. She uses her style to promote modern ways of educating children from a young age, while still respecting traditions. The methods include supporting children and making reading an exciting pastime, teaching them new words and adopting creative ways of discipline, all of which were discussed in the class. We give the women practical ideas, such as an early start to reading, increasing their general knowledge and developing their characters in a fun way by communicating with them, said Kelley. One popular lesson the women enjoyed and said they would adopt was to make flash cards with illustrations and words on them, to increase their offsprings vocabulary. Like the people at Qatar Foundation, we see the importance of early childhood development in building a future and a leadership of a nation, said Kelley. I live in the UAE currently and am hoping my work can affect the region positively. The workshop was sponsored by Boeing and the W Hotel in Doha. Shamma Al Dosari, Program Director at SDC, organizes these social outreach events. I really believe in early childhood education and one of my goals as Program Director is to provide programs for social development, she said. Here we are targeting parents, mothers, grandmothers and even teachers. Parenting styles need to be constantly developed. Its good to refresh our ways Mariam Al Ali, who plans to have children soon, tells QFTelegraph about why she enjoyed the SDC workshop. It was very useful. Kelley gave us technical ways mixed with knowledge and experience on how to succeed in early childhood development. There is a big difference in society between the old days and now. For me, its important to recognize the modern way. This is the first year I have come; I will come again. Life is moving on from the old traditional ways of raising a family and education is more important now than ever. Its good to refresh our ways. Some of the old ways of raising a family are not working, so we need to explore other ways Badreya Al Marzouqi is a mother of three young girls, aged eight months, 2.5 years and four. The workshop, she said, addresses the modern mother in the Gulf. I saw an advert in the newspaper and decided to come. We are open-minded mothers in the Gulf and we consider our children as the most important project in our lives. Mothers who dont have an academic education can learn through programs like these. Some of the old ways of raising a family are not working, so we need to explore other ways. Before, mothers would just put their kids in school and think that was enough. But its more than that, its learning how to build a human being and putting them in a good position in a global society.

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  • 1. Follow us on twitter.com/QFTelegraph Community 11 Thursday 2 june 2011 reflections on action care Making motherhood work SDC holds training workshop for mothers FOR THE modern mother living in Qatar, bringing up children can be a daunting task. It is for this reason that for the second year in a row, Social Development Center (SDC) held a workshop dedicated to teaching mothers about early childhood development. In an attempt to fulfill its vision of supporting families, SDC invited Cheryn Kelley, a trainer at educational NGO Action Care, to speak with a group of mothers and teachers about early childhood development. Around 30 mothers, moms-to-be and teachers packed into a classroom at the SDC headquarters and listened to Kelleys every word. Kelley, who has worked in the region for four years, said she delivered a holistic approach to early childhood development. Its activity-based learning that we are teaching here. She uses her style to promote modern ways of educating children from a young age, while still respecting traditions. The methods include supporting children and making reading an exciting pastime, teaching them new words and adopting creative ways of discipline, all of which were discussed in the class. We give the women practical ideas, such as an early start to reading, increasing their general knowledge and developing their characters in a fun way by communicating with them, said Kelley. One popular lesson the women enjoyed and said they would adopt was to make flash cards with illustrations and words on them, to increase their offsprings vocabulary. Like the people at Qatar Foundation, we see the importance of early childhood development in building a future and a leadership of a nation, said Kelley. I live in the UAE currently and am hoping my work can affect the region positively. The workshop was sponsored by Boeing and the W Hotel in Doha. Shamma Al Dosari, Program Director at SDC, organizes these social outreach events. I really believe in early childhood education and one of my goals as Program Director is to provide programs for social development, she said. Here we are targeting parents, mothers, grandmothers and even teachers. Parenting styles need to be constantly developed. Its good to refresh our ways Mariam Al Ali, who plans to have children soon, tells QFTelegraph about why she enjoyed the SDC workshop. It was very useful. Kelley gave us technical ways mixed with knowledge and experience on how to succeed in early childhood development. There is a big difference in society between the old days and now. For me, its important to recognize the modern way. This is the first year I have come; I will come again. Life is moving on from the old traditional ways of raising a family and education is more important now than ever. Its good to refresh our ways. Some of the old ways of raising a family are not working, so we need to explore other ways Badreya Al Marzouqi is a mother of three young girls, aged eight months, 2.5 years and four. The workshop, she said, addresses the modern mother in the Gulf. I saw an advert in the newspaper and decided to come. We are open-minded mothers in the Gulf and we consider our children as the most important project in our lives. Mothers who dont have an academic education can learn through programs like these. Some of the old ways of raising a family are not working, so we need to explore other ways. Before, mothers would just put their kids in school and think that was enough. But its more than that, its learning how to build a human being and putting them in a good position in a global society.