The paper presents young people’s attitudes towards their readiness for parenthood and motherhood. The respondents’ answers were obtained via employing the method of focus groups. The survey used 2 focus groups before the course on positive parenthood was delivered to the target groups and 2 survey groups after the delivery of the course. The author of the article discusses the concepts of motherhood and parenthood. Further to it, the results of the survey on the young people’s readiness for parenthood and motherhood are presented. The two target groups become to be the students of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences who have chosen the subject on “Positive Parenthood” as an optional general subject. The data obtained revealed the effectiveness of the course on changing young people’s attitudes towards the concepts of “a good mother” and “a good father”, their expectations towards a partner and a child, their ability to analyse themselves critically in the context of family relations.

The aim of the article is to reveal the expression of positive educational dialogue among educators seeking for child welfare in institution “X” of pre-school education. The object of the research is positive educational dialogue. The article consists of the introduction, scholarly literature analysis, research methodology and the analysis of research results, conclusions and recommendations, the list of literature. The current scientific article extensively explores communication of the teachers of pre-school education institutions and social pedagogues seeking to assure overall child education and the required learning environment. A positive educational dialogue of educators in a pre-school education institution helps to assure child welfare provided an appropriate communication style, directed towards the solution of a specific problem, is purposefully selected considering specific character traits of a child, trying to perceive the social network of the child, analysing the problembased situation, as well as properly identifying the problems and reasons of their occurrence. The research methods include analysis of scholarly literature and legal documents, as well as the method of interview and content analysis. The research participants are 7 teachers of institution “X” of pre-school education and one social pedagogue. The research results reveal that teachers discuss the possibilities of applying the method of positive educational dialogue with different children, analyse the possibilities of making situations game-like, as well as discuss the possibilities of the choice of topics for conversation with children. Dialogue as a method is an effective and frequent means that teachers use in creating favourable conditions for harmonious child education [...]