Resources
AKOR Parenting offers a variety of tools to assist parents, program leaders, and workshop facilitators:
Parent workshop facilitator's guides
Activity booklets for parents
Presentation slides in print and PowerPoint
The AKOR video series (link below)
Train-the-trainer modules and video series
And soon:
A book of poems using children’s voices to illustrate the AKOR principles.
The following videos can assist individuals in their exploration of the AKOR principles and strategies.
They are most powerful when used in parenting workshops giving participants the opportunity to deepen their knowledge through role-plays, discussions, sharing of personal experience, and other activities with the support of their peers and facilitator.
AKOR Parenting Video Series
Video 1: Fundamental Ideas
This video introduces the AKOR method and the ideas that constitute its foundation: The family-school-society connection, different childrearing methods, human motivation, and forces that impact children’s development.
Video 2: Encouragement
This video introduces the principle and teaches parents what they can do to encourage their children: before, during, after they do what they are asked, when they succeed, and when they don’t succeed.
Video 3: Consequences
This video introduces the principle and teaches the proper use of natural and logical consequences, time-out, and the withdrawal of privilege to manage childrens’ misbehavior.
Video 4: Honor
This video stipulates that we honor our children when we give them love and positive attention. It teaches how to manage children’s behavior by giving and withdrawing attention, and how to use positive communication.
Video 5: Respect
This video introduces the idea that we give our children respect when we allow them to make choices and take responsibilities. Parents ought to respect their children and teach them to respect their family and their culture.
Video 6: Collaboration
This video summarizes the AKOR principles and offers parents effective strategies to collaborate with their partners, their children’s school, family and community members, and the authorities.