Family prevention programs in early ages. Program learning to live at home, a proposal for intervention

Abstract

The family is the most important socializing agent in early childhood, constituting a key element in the educational process. During early ages, children learn social skills,attitudes and other skills necessary for adapting themselves to the context where they are living, influenced directly by their social competence and their parenting style. Prevention family programs, as early intervention strategy, have more benefits than corrective strategies, when the behaviour problems had been developed.
In this context it is proposed Aprender a Convivir en Casa [Learning to Live Together at Home] program, focused on parents that have children in Kindergarten aged from 3 to 5 years. It is presented as a valuable and useful instrument that could prevent behaviour problems and future young delinquency from an early childhood. The program is structured around three thematic blocks: I) Social and emotional training, II) We maintain good behaviour and we resolve conflicts and III) Family interaction. In these three blocks it is addressed topics related with: the evolutionary development of kindergarten children, assertive communication, express and identify emotions, parenting styles and its influences, functional behavior analysis, problem and conflict solving (importance of negotiation and self-control), establishing routines and distribution of tasks, cooperation at home, the development of autonomy and acquisition of responsibilities and commitments by children, hight quality time in family, couple communication, active listening and children role in conflicts between parents.