Teaching Raising a Thinking Child Program to Mothers and it's Effects on Anger and Mother- Child Relationship

In the recent decades, some researchers investigated communication styles of parents and children and its effects on emotional control. The aim of this study was to teach parents how to raise thinking children and to study it’s effects on anger and relationship with their children. In this research, the sample consisted of 50 mothers of students in private schools in Tehran who volunteered to participate in the workshops. In this workshop, mothers knowledge about different efficient and inefficient methods to deal with child behavior and how to improve mothers responses to the challenging behavior of children were discussed. The aim of the workshop was to improve parenting style teaching and efficient interaction methods such as problem solving in contrast to inefficient methods like punishment and reprimanding. Workshops in 9 sessions were held for a two-hour session per week. The instruments included two questionnaires, Gerard Parent- Child Relationship and Spilberger Trait Anger Inventory. Before the start of the workshop and at the end of the training sessions mothers to completed the questionnaires. Data were analyzed using repeated measures. The results showed that the program has been effective in improving the anger control and the relationship between mothers and their children.