OUR LIFE IS THE FAMILY! The goal of Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft. is to improve social attitudes related to family, children, childbearing, health, a healthy lifestyle, the development of healthy self-image and body awareness, and to implement prevention against negative phenomena related to family life.
Our goals
Quote from OUR LIFE IS THE FAMILY! From the founding document of Nonprofit Közhhasznú Kft
"Improving social attitudes related to family, children, childbearing, health, healthy lifestyle, healthy self-image and body awareness, implementation of prevention against negative phenomena related to family life.
The company wants to encourage young people to confirm that they have an extremely important role in shaping their own future and that they have a chance - with sufficient preparation -
for a full, happy family life in good health."
Professional background
The foundation of our school activity is provided by the educational work organized as a national program starting from Kecskemét in 1999 under the name "For Happier Families", which in 2008 was awarded the "Child and Youth Model Project of the Year" award by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.
Dr. Hortobágyiné is the dreamer, soul and engine of the program. Ágnes Nagy is a doctor, her assistant and partner is biologist Éva Déri, who started the introduction of family life education in education by making the natural family planning method with symptom-thermometry more widely known. In 2001, they actively contributed to the launch and operation of the Institute of Family Pedagogy of the Sapientia College of Religious Studies, where they organized an accredited 40-hour course for teachers and nurses every year for 10 years until 2011.
The members of our team (pedagogues, social pedagogue, youth nurse, religious teacher, child and youth protection consultant) have been working as family life education consultants since 2006 after completing the course.
Information differently
The methodology and conduct of the educational sessions is innovative, it introduces young people (ages 10-14) in small groups, divided by gender, into the knowledge of the physical and mental changes of adolescence and the issues of gender, according to a playful theme specially designed for their age.
In the MFM-Projekt® cycle show session adapted from Germany, girls playfully get to know the female reproductive cycle (see also www.mfm-projekt.hu ), while boys can play along the journey of spermatozoa from the beginning.
The sessions take place on Saturdays or as part of a school health day, and their duration is approx. 5 hours. In connection with the sessions, we hold a presentation evening for the parents, thereby helping the development of an intimate conversation with their adolescent children on the issues of fertility, gender, male and female identity.
Family life education sessions
We hold classes on a monthly basis, primarily as part of class teacher classes, which are mostly led by two counselors. We start working with young people from the age of high school, so that they develop the need and the ability to formulate and respect values, and then we accompany them for years - if we can until graduation.
Our methods
We were looking for a new form for our classes, so we use non-formal learning tools. We consider it important that the students are considered partners of the advisor, so that the lessons can take place in a more relaxed atmosphere. In our interactive sessions, we play a lot, talk with the students, and we also try to discover new knowledge through joint work instead of lectures. The application of joint exercises and drama pedagogic elements helps us with this new approach. Our attention-grabbing visual tools, the screening of a film suitable for each topic and its processing in class, as well as personal testimony in favor of the values, serve to deepen the knowledge material.
Our teamwork
The direction of the work in each class is developed based on the needs of the students in consultation with the head of class, and the realization is evaluated together. With the help of lesson preparation and evaluation consultations, we try to hold sessions "tailored to groups and classes". We demand that the head of class is also present in the lessons, and we are happy if he is also actively involved in the lesson. We also try to inform parents about the activities going on in the classes at parent meetings, and if there is a need for it, we also hold parent sessions.
Our topics in the sessions
Family
Promoting the value of the family, reviewing family types and family roles. We emphasize conscious preparation for parenthood, which is essential for becoming a responsible parent. We talk about a child as a wonderful gift, the fruit of the relationship between husband and wife. The mother who is expecting her child is therefore – in our use of words – in a blessed state, not pregnant.
Communication in the family. Generations - conflict situations of large families and their management; importance of respect. The effect of divorce on the life of the child and the family.
Love languages
Getting to know the types of love, true, accepting love. We mainly teach the specific language of communication within the family: words of appreciation, quality time, giving gifts, favors, physical touch.
Personality development
Developing correct self-knowledge and self-evaluation, character education and formation, communication skills, and conflict management skills.
Personality types
Rethinking the value system based on truth, the role of role models who convey values.
Friendship
The importance, formation and role of friendship in the life of the adolescent and the family, how we can become true friends ourselves.
Love
Comparing it to friendship and love. What kind of love do boys want and what kind of love do girls want? The importance of dating.
Pair selection
Characteristics of a responsible partnership. Preparation for marriage, marital commitment and fidelity.
Adolescence = age of changes
Experiencing the beauty and troubles of adolescence, spiritual and biological changes. Events of the female cycle, ffi-female fertility symptoms. Proper health awareness, gender identity formation and confirmation. The role of responsibility. GOAL = development of a mature personality. (see also previous page. Different information)
Sexuality – Family planning – Abortion and AIDS prevention
Comprehensible and honest information about responsible sexuality and promotion of communication about it. In our opinion, the place of sexuality is in a mutually faithful, lifelong relationship, which for us is marriage. We emphasize the value of virginity, self-control and renunciation.
Sexuality is one of life's most beautiful gifts, a source of great joy for two people committed to each other in love. It is important that it also includes the possibility of passing on life. When learning about the biology of fertilization, conception appears as a miracle. We believe and profess that the unrepeatable, unique and irreplaceable human life begins at the moment of conception.
During abortion prevention, we emphasize respect for life, protection of life and fetus. We consider the most effective help to be a detailed introduction to fetal development. In a broader sense, family planning means a lifestyle characterized by thoughtfulness, planning, and responsibility.
Full information about family planning methods is important. Familiarity with natural family planning is extremely important to us. We trust that deepening this knowledge will lead to a healthy start in life.
Healthy lifestyle, drug prevention
Healthy eating, overweight, pathological thinness; physical training, personal hygiene. Confirmation of correct self-image. Abstaining from harmful addictions (alcohol, smoking, drugs). Disease of passion, addiction, legal-illegal drug. Direct and indirect effects of drugs on the body, behavior and the environment. Getting to know the decision-making process à "SAY NO!" skill-level development (personality development).
Media–Advertising–Mass information tools
The correct use of all these. Positive and negative effects. How do we protect ourselves from harmful effects?
Profession-Career
Our own vocation. What is a dedicated and careerist person like? How can they be reconciled with a happy family life?
Etiquette
Written and unwritten rules of social behavior. Meals, greetings, gift-giving, grooming, appearance, dressing. The approach of women and men, (even lovers') behavior in front of society.
Acceptance of loss
Illness, disability. Death and grief are among the taboo subjects. "Since we are not born at home and we do not die at home, we do not understand the world!" We want to help adolescents by presenting the processing of grief and loss, the "process of grief work".
Our contact information: FAMILY IS OUR LIFE! Family and Health Pedagogical Prevention Nonprofit Közhaznú Kft. [email protected]
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