Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Spouse of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Sharjah Household and Neighborhood Council, this morning (Wednesday) witnessed the inauguration of the Third Version of the Baby Security Discussion board 2025.
The Discussion board, held below the theme “Shield Their Innocence,” occurred on the Al Jawaher Reception and Conference Centre (JRCC).
The inauguration was marked by the extensive participation of leaders from household and childhood organizations, native and worldwide specialists within the fields of psychology, training, and digital safety, alongside representatives from social and academic entities, mother and father and professionals in household affairs.
This 12 months’s Discussion board underscores Sharjah’s proactive method to advocating for childhood and reinforcing its complete social safety system.
The occasion is designed to be a pioneering dialogue platform that contributes to anticipating future challenges in youngster safety amidst the accelerating social and digital transformations worldwide. It serves as a catalyst for growing efficient insurance policies and options to reinforce youngsters’s security and their psychological and emotional well-being.
This drive is rooted within the imaginative and prescient of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah to construct an built-in household system, positioning the household because the core basis of society and a precedence element of its developmental insurance policies, that are constructed upon the values of social cohesion and group duty. The final word aim is to nurture youngsters’s bodily and psychological well-being inside a cohesive household unit, providing them complete assist and steerage.
Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi mentioned: “Baby safety just isn’t a matter of social alternative, however a belief, a profound ethical dedication and an obligation that transcends all different issues. I counsel each mom and father to spend high quality time with their youngsters; take heed to their emotions, interact with their world, reassure them, communicate with them, advise them, and information them. Your shut presence instils self-confidence and fosters their internal safety, empowering them to take care of the world with out concern or confusion”.
Her Highness added: “We imagine that prevention begins within the household, and that your proximity to your youngsters affords the deepest, most real safety. Be the steadfast anchor of assist they at all times return to, and the watchful eye that perceives what they can’t put into phrases. Each second you spend with them is an funding of their security and their future”.
Based mostly on Sharjah’s imaginative and prescient to strengthen its standing as a protected and inclusive surroundings, Her Highness affirmed that the official declaration by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, that Sharjah is now accredited as a Child and Household-Pleasant Emirate, is the extension of an extended journey of steady effort that the Emirate initiated within the Fifties.
These efforts geared toward constructing a sturdy social system that helps the household whereas fostering a society that locations the kid and household well-being on the coronary heart of its developmental agenda.
In her speech in the course of the inauguration, Her Excellency Hanadi Al Yafei, Director Normal of the Baby Security, affirmed that Sharjah’s method to youngster safety stems from an overarching imaginative and prescient established by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and additional cemented by the efforts and family-supporting initiatives of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Spouse of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Sharjah Household and Neighborhood Council.
Al Yafei highlighted that the challenges youngsters face in the present day differ radically from these recognized to earlier generations. The digital world now seeps into their rooms unrestricted, introducing concepts and behaviors that won’t align with the values of the household and society.
Al Yafei elaborated that the duty for youngster safety just isn’t solely outlined by exterior elements however includes confronting what infiltrates the kid’s private area. She emphasised that fashionable parenthood calls for a better parental presence and a stage of consciousness that allows them to interpret the feelings their youngsters can not categorical in phrases.
Al Yafei additional defined that, below the course of the Chairperson of the Sharjah Household and Neighborhood Council, the Baby Security has transitioned from being a mere consciousness initiative right into a pioneering institutional mannequin for youngster safety, selling consciousness and safety efforts throughout Sharjah and your complete UAE.
Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi and the friends witnessed the Discussion board’s inaugural session, titled “The world is seeping into our properties… Who’s educating our youngsters?”.
The session featured H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Kaabi, Chairman of the Sharjah Judicial Division; Dr. Hind Al Badwawi, Psychological Counsellor and Baby Safety Knowledgeable, Household and Baby Prosecution, Abu Dhabi Judicial Division; Ms. Moza Al Shoomi, Deputy Head of Emirates Baby Safety Affiliation; and Dr. Khalil Al Zeyoud, Household Relations Marketing consultant. The dialogue was moderated by Mr. Ahmed Al Zarouni, Legal professional.
The audio system shared their experience, offering coverage suggestions rooted in behavioral science, parenting methods, and youngster safety.
H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Kaabi, Chairman of the Sharjah Judicial Division emphasised that youngster safety contains the kid’s rights to like, emotional safety, respect, and bodily care. He pointed to the essential position of laws in safeguarding these rights and the significance of household cooperation with related authorities to make sure the kid’s security and psychological well-being.
Dr. Hind Al Badwawi centered on the idea of “nurturing conscience earlier than habits,” affirming that the kid chooses proper out of private conviction, not out of concern of monitoring. She advocated for constructing a safe relationship, validating feelings, offering a constant position mannequin, and utilizing language that encourages reflection and backbone as a substitute of punishment. She pressured that each day phrases have a direct and instant influence on youngsters’s mind improvement and internal voice.”
Ms. Moza Al Shoomi affirmed that the household stays the first supply of emotional safety, belonging, and respect. She underscored the essential must arm youngsters with the talents to navigate the digital world and to activate household legal guidelines that forestall neglect and dangerous behaviors.
Dr. Khalil Al Zeyoud defined that the household’s position in the present day just isn’t restricted to defending the kid from the surface world, however to organize them to take care of it by way of “psychological immunity.” This immunity, he pressured, is constructed by way of consistency between mother and father, dialogue and affection, and clear family guidelines. He additionally emphasised the important significance of display consciousness and bodily privateness.
The second session, titled “Concern of Society: When Silence Turns into the Enemy,” addressed how the concern of public judgment can inhibit a toddler from disclosing the stress or abuse they might be experiencing.
The dialogue underscored the need of fostering a protected household surroundings that actively encourages the kid to talk, enhances their self-confidence, and grants them room for expression. It additionally highlighted society’s important position in mitigating the stigma related to youngsters’s behavioral and psychological challenges.
The third session, titled “Fathers Who Make a Distinction Throughout Generations,” targeting the pivotal position of fathers in shaping a toddler’s character and cultivating their emotional safety and belief.
Discussions lined the significance of parental position modeling in shaping optimistic habits, the steadiness between firmness and compassion, and the position of household communication in strengthening bonds and fostering a secure surroundings. Moreover, the session explored methods to bridge the digital divide between fathers and youngsters to make sure a extra complete understanding of the kid’s world.
Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi additionally seen the accompanying occasions of the Discussion board, most notably the “Emotion Room”. This characteristic goals to offer attendees with a sensory expertise simulating a toddler’s internal world by way of interactive and auditory situations. It successfully demonstrates the influence of affection and compassion versus abuse and neglect, enabling attendees to completely grasp a toddler’s emotions in several conditions and comprehend the magnitude of the psychological influence that the kid can not articulate.
The “Regulation Platform” showcased nationwide laws associated to youngster rights and safety. It additionally invited attendees to submit authorized solutions deemed obligatory to reinforce the kid safety system—a step geared toward involving the group in constructing a safer future for youngsters.
The Discussion board aligns with the UAE declaration of 2026 because the “Yr of the Household”. This step displays a strategic course that positions the household on the core of the developmental course of and affirms that youngster safety essentially begins at dwelling and throughout the each day relationship between mother and father and their youngsters.
The Discussion board serves as an important alternative to strengthen this shift by defining the long run roadmap of the household’s position in youngster safety and offering suggestions to assist youngster security insurance policies and initiatives.
In its third version, the Discussion board cements Sharjah’s place as a number one platform for advancing the kid safety system. It highlights the Emirate’s essential position in fostering synergy between the household unit and group establishments, and in presenting a mannequin for addressing the up to date challenges youngsters encounter. This method ensures that youngsters’s innocence is safeguarded and their proper to a protected surroundings that achieves their well-being and improvement is preserved.