When is the best time to start parenting education?

When is the best time 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...

The best time to start parenting education is with baby care, obviously. Their foundation of a lifetime is set in place when a child is a baby. The whole phenomenon of attachment, of how to treat babies, and the kinds of urgencies that come up with babies, clearly it makes a lot of sense to know what is good baby care. And nowadays there's an infinite amount of information available online, and wonderful books on children from birth until age three or five, and that foundation of a lifetime is put in place right there. So parents really need to be up-to-speed. We know that the learning curve of little children just goes straight up, and at age five it starts leveling off, and it still is going up, up, up. So, many parents have ignored this little baby, thinking, "oh, well, they're just a baby and don't know anything yet." Well, hello! They are learning unbelievably fast, and if you're missing these developmental stages and turning points as a parent it's too bad for the child.