Parenting Services
ONLINE PARENTING CLASSES
Everybody blames parents for the troubles of youth and for the troubles that young people appear to be causing society. It's all the fault of parents, mental health experts lament, after examining the frightening statistics on the rapidly increasing number of children and youth who develop serious or crippling emotional problems, who become victims of drug addiction, or who commit suicide. Political leaders and law-enforcement officials blame parents for raising a generation of gang members, homicidal teenagers, violent students, and criminals. And when kids fail in school or become hopeless dropouts, teachers and school administrators claim that the parents are at fault.
Yet who is helping parents? How much effort is being made to assist parents to become more effective in raising children? Where can parents learn what they are doing wrong and what they might do differently?
Millions of new mothers and fathers take on a job each year that ranks among the most difficult anyone can have: taking an infant, a little per-son who is almost totally helpless, assuming full responsibility for his physical and psychological health and raising him so he will become a productive, cooperative, and contributing citizen.
When you get a new job, you usually have to do a good amount of training before you get any real responsibility. Unfortunately, being a parent doesn't work the same way. Nobody makes you take a training course on how to raise a kid, but it's not a bad idea. That's why there are parenting classes. It's next to impossible to be good at something without practice, so why not practice your parenting skills? Whether you have a newborn or a teenager, it's never too late to try and learn effective parenting techniques. Parenting Insight Bureau have decided to design a training program for parents who already are experiencing serious problems with their children.
Parents can acquire very specific skills that will keep the channels of communication open between parents and children—both ways. And they can learn a new method of resolving parent-child conflicts that brings about a strengthening rather than a deterioration of the relationship. This program has convinced us that parents and their children can develop a warm, intimate relationship based on mutual love and respect. It has also demonstrated that rifts need not exist in families.
Your own parents might have taught you effective techniques as they were raising you, which you might choose to continue as your bring up your children. Parenting classes provide you with another option. One of the benefits of parenting classes is staying up to date on the newest and most effective parenting techniques.
Parenting classes can also help take some of the mystery out of being a parent. They can teach you what to expect, effective ways to discipline and the best ways to prepare your children for school. They can also help you work through specific problems you might be having or prepare for a transition in the event of a divorce or some other unforeseen circumstance. On top of all that, parenting classes also give you an opportunity to connect with other parents who are most likely going through a lot of the same experiences as you.
Deciding to take a parenting class doesn't mean you're a bad parent. It shows you care about your family and the future of your children.
What Do They Teach
Parenting classes offer many kinds of useful information on topics that range from childcare to health issues and emotional problems for children and parents. Anger management, conflict resolution and identifying substance abuse problems (for preteens or teens and parents) may be included in the curriculum. Basic nutrition, promoting good study habits and setting healthy boundaries are popular topics, as well. Classes may focus on certain age groups, such as newborns, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children, preteens and teens. Specialized topics might be available, including protecting your child from school violence and helping a child practice self-defense against bullies.
Recovery programs (from physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence and substance abuse) can be found in some parenting classes. If you don’t see a topic covered that you would like to have available, contact the instructor to see if it can be added.
BENEFIT OF PARENTING CLASSES
- Give parents the encouragement they need to help children handle their own behavior
- Facilitate a parent training session by offering step by step advice to contemporary parents to take a fresh look at the challenges, uncertainties and contradiction that confront today’s family reeving children.
- Provide todays parents with parental guidelines for peaceful, productive co-existence with their children during these exhilarating and difficult year.
- Provide parental tips on how to stay in control irrespective of up and downs of nurturance and discover how to turn this into a rewarding experience for children and themselves.
- Assist parents to develop a long-range purpose of parenting in helping their children develop healthy self-esteem and life skills they need to be effective, happy contributing members of the family and society.
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