Bum Bum Adolescents

This project is a Grundvig project and has been running for the past two years (2006/2007 – 2007/2008). We are five partners participating in the project : Malta -  Paulo Friere Institute
Italy – Polo Europeo Della Conoscenza
Italy – Traning 2000
Rumania – Ared Suceava
Solvenia – Ekonomska Sola Kranj
Malta being the co-ordinating country.

This project targets parents of pre adolescents and adolescents. The aim is to provide training for parents and help them integrate skills in order to be better able to deal with the day to day challenges that parenting involves.

During the first year of the project each partner interview parents, focus groups and questionnaires were used to conduct this research. The research aimed to better understand the difficulties parents encounter with their children. The common problems in each country were then identified and then a parenting skills syllabus was drawn up. This was tested in each and every country. Since some problems were unique to certain countries one of the sessions was entitled difficulties with our children and each country was free to focus on the difficult that pertains to them. An evaluation was conducted after the training was completed and this gave us a better understanding of what we should stress more on and what the parents found most helpful during the training.

As part of the project too this e-manual was created. This manual provides a guideline for parents or trainers who wish to provide such training to other parents.

We hope that you find this manual helpful and can use it as a tool to conduct similar training.


BumBumSyllabus