'Triple P: Positive Parenting Program' Helps Military Parents Deal With Emotional And Behavioral Challenges With Their Kids

One of the biggest challenges that North America faces today is that of their military, especially with their personal lives. Many do not know that it can be a struggle for military parents to handle their kids especially if they have been deployed overseas for an amount of time. Because of that, military parents can now seek for support and guidance for dealing with emotional and behavioural challenges with their children through the Military Family Resource Centre's Triple P Positive Parenting Program.

The Triple P program is based on five core principles, which includes promoting positive learning environment, ensuring a safe and engaging environment, providing effective discipline, maintaining reasonable expectations for both parent and child, and taking care of oneself as a parent. The program has five intervention level and the parents can choose how much help they need.

"This program is based on creating strong, nurturing relationships and positive communication between children and parents," says Pauline Sibbald, MFRC social worker. "This multi-level parenting and family support strategy allows the program to be tailored to meet individual family needs," she added.

Parents may also choose to attend a one-on-one session with a Triple P practitioner and they can register to seminars and such. Triple P is a flexible and adaptable to the lifestyle of the military parents and that it was created solely be a big help to military families.

"There are unique stressors to parenting in the military lifestyle including relocation, frequent deployment, and work-related separations that we want to provide family support and resources for," says Pauline Sibbald.  Another issue that some are facing is divorce, which Triple P has a special program also called Family Transitions.

"Divorce is a major life transition for parents and children.  Family Transitions can help individuals enhance their problem-solving skills to begin to manage and resolve conflict and improve their ability to cope with strong emotions, stress and change," Pauline Sibbald commented.