Is it ever too late to start parenting education?

Is it ever too late to start parenting education?

Jayne Major, Ph.D. (Parenting Educator & Child Custody Consultant, Breakthrough Parenting Services, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What is "parenting education"?; When is the best time to start parenting education? and more...

I've had people who are senior citizens take my parenting classes and they're parenting their grandchildren. We shouldn't think about the parent's role with such rigidity. A parent is anybody who is interacting with this child and is in a position to care for the child and teach the child. So, is it ever too late? These are relationship skills that a good many of us missed when we were growing up because a lot changed. Modern parents: just think of what has changed in the last twenty years, in the last thirty years. Your parents are unlikely to have known that. Now many grandparents are spending a lot of time with or actually physically parenting their children. They need to be trained in the modern methods.