\u201cBeing part of the Child Safeguarding (CSG) training has taught me that hitting my children when they were young was wrong and was a form of abuse that I wasn\u2019t aware of\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
62-year-old Seforesa Baleilau could not hold back her tears during the Child Safeguarding training as she openly shared her journey of raising five children \u2013 which she said was a challenge and involved a lot of physical punishment as a form of discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She admitted that there were times when she disciplined her children using a belt or a wooden spoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis training is really great. It touched my heart. Because before I didn\u2019t know how to approach my children when they did something wrong. I always yelled and did not know how to control my anger towards them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first-time participant also highlighted that the CSG training is timely as she now has 12 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren \u2013 a new set of generations she hopes to start a new light with in terms of positive parenting and discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI used to hit my children because to me that was a form of expressing my love for them and it also showed that I cared for their future. I used to think if I didn\u2019t discipline them enough, they would either end up in jail or the hospital\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Child negligence is another issue that the 62-year-old raised during the session pointing out there were incidents in the community where parents would leave their children unsupervised or in the care of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany children here are from broken families and it hurts me seeing them not having their parents around especially at a time when they need guidance and support. They grow up and later learn that their parents abandoned them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Child Safeguarding training she says is a much-needed session not only for residents of Nabua but for every community in Fiji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday I attend the program and I know what I should have done with my children but now that I have grandchildren \u2013 I am slowly using this new parenting method to help them become feel safe and that they can always come and talk to me without being scared,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CSG training is part of the Collective Action to End Violence Against Children project \u2013 which works in 24 communities across the Central division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CAEVAC project is being implemented by Save the Children Fiji and funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade<\/a> and supported by Save the Children New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBeing part of the Child Safeguarding (CSG) training has taught me that hitting my children when they were young was wrong and was a form of abuse that I wasn\u2019t aware of\u201d 62-year-old Seforesa Baleilau could not hold back her tears during the Child Safeguarding training as she openly shared her journey of raising five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.fj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}