21/07/2023
Successful parenting workshop breakfast this morning: A 2-hour sneak peak into the 15-hour Tapping Our Parental Power workshop (with accompanying manual).
U&I-RISE is making a case for society investing in parenting education in general.
"It's an intelligent society that invests in its citizens being effective parents because we parents have the largest impact on the condition of our neighborhoods and communities based on how we raise our children."
- Bolanle Ambonisye , Founder & Director of U&I-RISE
Without such required general education, there is an implication that everyone knows how to parent well because they can physically create a baby.
We can clearly see that is not the case.
BeCause we don't have the proper knowledge and tools everyone is just making it up as we go along. Which would be fine if every family lived in their own vacuum.
But we impact each other...profoundly.
We at U&I-RISE have found that when given a date, time and place to actually contemplate the biggest job of our lives and be intentional about creating a tailor-made plan; parents are very appreciative and walk away much more empowered.
"Children don't come with an instruction manual, but parenting should.
Here's the manual."
"Parents deserve to be equipped.
And children deserve equipped parents."
- Bolanle Ambonisye
Some of the organizations in attendance include, but are not limited to, Urban League St. Louis, Urban League HeadStart, and Better Family Life.
Thank you for the phenomenal catering, . Everyone said it was all deLIcious!
And it goes without saying that the Exodus Art Gallery always provides SUCH beaauutiful accommodations. Thank you Carlton Mitchell.
U&I-RISE's definition of respect:
To acknowledge a person's EVERYTHING to be as valid/important as one's own; even, and esPecially if, different from one's own.
