Parent peer support

Press, 5 March 1988, Page 4

Parent peer support

By

JENNY LONG,

education reporter

How ma'ny parents have been told that they are the “only parents in the world” who expect their teenager home by midnight? A new support group for parents, which aims to overcome the? isolation felt by many parents of teenagers, is being set lip in Christchurch. Parents of ■ Aranui High School pupils have been invited to a meeting at the school, on

Wednesday evening, to help form a parent peer support group. Parents or teachers from other schools were also invited. I

The support groups will be parent-run, with teachers appointed to liaise between parents and school.

' The parent groups, with parents working together, i were likely to agree on common guideI lines and on consei quences for children i who failed to follow them, said the South Island co-ordinator of

parent peer support groups, Mrs Vesta Boswell. ; i

The parent peer groups were I begun in the North Island by the Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Education. A group has already been formed at Rangiora High School, I and many other schools were showing an interest in the scheme, Mrs Boswell said. |

The meeting i at Aranui High School will begin in. the school library on March 9 at 7.30 p.m.