Arden Child Sphere Africa

  All parents, teachers and communities want children to thrive in their education, their health and their futures. Yet, too many young people receive confusing and conflicting information about puberty, relationships, love and sex, as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood. A growing number of studies show that young people are turning to the digital environment as a key source of information about sexuality. CSE is adapted to the age and developmental stage of the learner and uses a learner-centered approach. Learners in lower grades are introduced to simple concepts such as family, respect and kindness, while older learners get to tackle more complex concepts such as gender-based violence, sexual consent, HIV testing, and pregnancy. When delivered well and combined with access to necessary sexual and reproductive health services, CSE empowers young people to make informed decisions about relationships and sexuality and navigate a world where gender-based violence, ...

  Motherhood is an important aspect of life for many women. However, for adolescent girls, motherhood is a stage fraught with many challenges that ultimately affect the course of the rest of their lives. Early motherhood/childbearing is seen as a  public health concern  with an impact on the health of both the adolescent mother and the child. The burden of being an adolescent mother weighs heavily on the young girl, the family, and society. Adolescent mothers are shunned by their peers as girls gone bad, stigmatized in social circles, and labeled as a bad influence by society.  Kenya recorded a total number of  45,700 adolescent pregnancies  between January and February 2020, with statistics showing that  one out of every five adolescent girls is pregnant, most of which are unintended or unplanned. According to the  World Health Organization , 55% of the unintended pregnancies in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) result in unsafe abortions. ...

Sleep is part of parenting, and how we parent around sleep is part of how we parent over-all. In fact, some of your sleep parenting decisions are the first big ones you make that either emphasize connection  or separation, emotional availability or emotional distance. Responsive parenting includes night time parenting. Those decisions and approaches are connected. So, to understand why responsive sleep support is so important, we have to talk about why responsive parenting is so important. You may have heard, or identified with a lot of different parenting labels: Attachment parenting, positive parenting, gentle parenting, respectful parenting, conscious parenting, peaceful parenting, intuitive parenting, responsive parenting….Likely I’ve missed a few . All of these various labels are variations of each other. They may differ in how the core elements are presented, but they share a lot in common. What is responsive parenting? When I talk about responsive parenting, here are a few k...