Education and Training for Parents Today, Discipline and Wellbeing for Children Tomorrow

AbstractChildren's upbringing is one of the most important and difficult roles and challenges for parents today. This paper presents a new model of parenting training developed within the project “BE Supportive, NOT violent! Positive parenting for happy children!”- III Daphne Programme (European Commission). Parents from several countries – among them Spain – were trained receiving informative background as well as practical advice for everyday use. The main results show that parents acquired useful techniques for upbringing children as communication skills or strategies to set limits, and moreover they got to know more about children's development. In this sense, providing basic knowledge and reinforce parenting skills foster that children learn a cognitive and behavioral model based on positive discipline and non-violent reactions