As one of the oldest and most prominent parenting ministries in the world, the Growing Families International curriculums are both ground-breaking and life changing. Today, millions of families around the globe speak to the positive impact of GFI’s God-centered parenting message.
Andrea and Alastair de Wet are facilitators for the GFI curriculums in the Midrand/Centurion area in Gauteng, South Africa.
They offer the following courses:
Preparation for Parenting (0-6 months) R250 – 6 week course (2 hours once a week)
Foundations of Prep for parenting
Feeding philosophies
Babies and sleep
Facts on feeding
Monitoring your babies growth
Establishing your babies routine
Wake times and naps
When your baby cries
Preparation for the Toddler years (6-18 months) R250 – 5 week course (2 hours once a week)
Foundations of moral training
Mealtime activities
Highchair manners and behaviour
Wake time activities
Discipline
Nap and sleep time activities
Child language development
Teaching your baby to sign
Potty training thoughts
Growing Kids Gods way (3 years – 8 years) R450 – 21 week course (3 hours once a week)
How to raise a moral child
Right beginnings
Touch points of love
The fathers mandate
Your child’s conscience
Character development
– Respect for authority and parents
– Respect for age
– Respect for peers, property and nature
Principals of obedience
Discipline with encouragement
Discipline with correction
Consequences and punishment
Repentance, forgiveness and restoration
Discipline issues – part 1
Discipline issues – part 2
The appeal process
Building a healthy family
Rejection (optional extras)
Memorials (optional extras)
Reflections of Moral Innocence (8 years and up) R250 -8 week course (1 1/2 hours once a week)
This course covers the introduction of sexuality to your children in a way that preserves their moral innocence (allowing them to remain children for longer) but also in a way where you can impart the facts of life to your child in an informative and loving way.
Preparation for the teenage years (9 years and up) R250 – 6 week course
Details to be confirmed
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Is there anything like this in Cape Town?Specifically Northern Suburbs Durbanville. Would love to attend a course like this. My son is 22 months old.
Hi Anne-Marie
There should be some churches in the area that would offer a similar course. I will do some research and get back to you!
Thanks for asking. Please let us know if you find anything before we do.
Here is the contact information for the South African partner/branch of Growing Families International. They should have information about where you can do any number of the GFI courses that we have outlined on our blog.
All the best!!
Allan and Gabi Dixon
PO Box 1250
Link Hills, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa 3652
Phone: 27 (031) 7621739 or 27 (031) 7635241
E-mail: famlandscape@telkomsa.net