What is "parenting education"?

What is "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...

Parent education - it is the most neglected and misunderstood phenomenon. And it's so unfortunate, because a lot of parents think that, "If I go to a parenting class it means I'm a bad parent." That isn't the case. Sometimes bad parents do go to parenting classes or they're court ordered. But that doesn't mean that a person who truly loves their children and wants a strong family shouldn't go and learn these modern methods. It is the most cost efficient and long-term effective method for having a stable, healthy family. In my career, as a parent educator for 25 years, I am appalled at how bad things have to get in a family before parents will go to a parenting class. Often they're ordered and the family is a disaster. So if we can bring, in parenting classes, these parents whose families are just horrible... If we can bring them back into moving from struggle to cooperation, think about parents, how they could avoid all of that misery if they were trained early, rather than after there's a huge problem in the family.