Parenting Session On "Growing Together - The Parent's Role In Shaping Early Childhood" at Sano Paila Montessori

Parenting Session | Growing Together – The Parent’s Role in Shaping Early Childhood | Sano Paila Montessori

Vygotsky Child-Parent Consulting and Learning Center conducted a meaningful Parenting Session on “Growing Together – The Parent’s Role in Shaping Early Childhood” at Sano Paila Montessori, Shantinagar, Kathmandu, Nepal on 3 Oct, 2026, facilitated by Ms. Priyanka Chaguthi, Parenting Coach, Early Years Educator, Teacher's Trainer, and Founder of Vygotsky Nepal.

The session focused on helping parents understand the important role they play in shaping their child's early development, emotional well-being, behaviour, learning, relationships, and overall growth. It highlighted how the everyday experiences children have with their parents and caregivers can influence the way they understand themselves, others, and the world around them.

Growing Together: Understanding the Parent's Role

Early childhood is a foundational period of development. During these years, children learn not only through formal education but also through their everyday interactions, relationships, routines, conversations, and experiences at home.

The session encouraged parents to look beyond academic achievement and recognise the importance of emotional connection, responsive communication, play, encouragement, boundaries, and a supportive home environment in a child's development.

Parents were encouraged to reflect on how their own responses, expectations, communication styles, and everyday interactions can contribute to their child's development.

Key Focus Areas of the Parenting Session

The session explored practical aspects of parenting and early childhood development, including:

• Understanding the importance of early childhood experiences

• Exploring the parent's role in a child's overall development

• Supporting children's emotional and social development

• Building secure and meaningful parent-child relationships

• Understanding children's developmental needs

• Communicating with children in ways they can understand

• Encouraging independence and confidence

• Creating a supportive and emotionally safe home environment

• Using everyday moments as opportunities for learning

• Balancing guidance, boundaries, and connection

• Supporting children's curiosity, exploration, and learning

• Growing alongside children through mindful and responsive parenting

Parents as Partners in Children's Development

Children's development does not happen in isolation. Parents and caregivers are among the most important influences in a child's early years.

Small everyday moments—listening to a child, answering their questions, playing together, acknowledging their feelings, allowing them to try independently, or simply being emotionally present—can become meaningful learning experiences.

The session highlighted that parenting is not about being perfect. It is about being present, responsive, consistent, and willing to learn and grow alongside the child.

When parents understand their children's developmental needs, they can provide support that is more appropriate, meaningful, and nurturing.

Growing Together Through Connection

The idea of “growing together” recognises that early childhood is a journey not only for the child but also for the parent.

As children grow and develop, parents also learn to adapt, understand, communicate, guide, and respond to their changing needs. Building a strong relationship during these early years can provide children with a sense of security and confidence as they explore their surroundings and develop their own identities.

The session encouraged parents to focus on connection before correction, understanding before judgement, and guidance alongside independence.

An Interactive Learning Experience for Parents

The parenting session provided parents with an opportunity to learn, reflect, ask questions, and engage in meaningful discussions around early childhood development and parenting.

Through practical insights and reflection, parents were encouraged to look at their everyday parenting experiences from a developmental perspective and identify ways they can better support their children's emotional, social, cognitive, and overall development.

Such parenting sessions can help create stronger collaboration between parents, educators, and schools, ensuring that children receive consistent support across both home and learning environments.

About Priyanka Chaguthi

Priyanka Chaguthi is a Parenting Coach, Early Years Educator, Teacher's Trainer, and Founder of Vygotsky Child-Parent Consulting and Learning Center. Her professional areas include child development and psychology, parenting coaching, early years education, special needs support, teacher training, and emotional well-being.

Through her work with parents, educators, and schools, she focuses on building greater awareness of children's developmental, emotional, and learning needs and supporting adults in creating nurturing environments for children.

About Sano Paila Montessori

Sano Paila Montessori is located in Shantinagar, Kathmandu, Nepal, and focuses on providing young children with a supportive early learning environment where they can explore, learn, and grow.

Building Strong Foundations Together

The parenting session at Sano Paila Montessori was an opportunity for parents to pause, reflect, and recognise the powerful role they play during their child's early years.

Early childhood is filled with moments that shape how children learn, communicate, build relationships, manage emotions, and understand themselves. By becoming more aware and responsive in these everyday moments, parents can help create a strong foundation for their children's future.

When children grow, parents grow too. And when parents and children grow together, they build stronger connections, stronger foundations, and stronger futures.

Event Details

Event: Parenting Session – “Growing Together: The Parent’s Role in Shaping Early Childhood”
Facilitator: Priyanka Chaguthi
Role: Parenting Coach, Early Years Educator & Teacher's Trainer
Venue: Sano Paila Montessori
Location: Shantinagar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Organized by: Vygotsky Child-Parent Consulting and Learning Center