A group of Wanganui parents celebrated the conclusion of a six-week parenting course, Building Awesome Whanau, at Skip Whanganui this week. Parents have worked through the stages of the programme with tutors Nikki Rees and Jenny Te Punga-Jurgens and received their certificates from Parenting Show presenter Pio Terei on Monday.
The course explores laying the foundations and building family on aroha, being the roof for family and protecting whanau, establishing the walls of the whare and setting, keeping it in harmony and creating good communication and living well outside the whare.
Pio Terei presented a Parenting Show workshop at the Central Baptist Centre in Wicksteed St on Monday night.
He had earlier visited Whanganui Prison to talk to inmates who have completed the programme there.