In Support of Parenting Education

Children need structure, guidance, and discipline. Keeping a close eye on one’s children will alert a parent as to when something is going wrong. Children are what they live, so teaching parent’s how to be good parent’s is not only going to benefit the parents but the children as well, instead of having monster heredity, them may have wonderful heredity genes for generations to

“Parent-child relationships. Among these are quality parenting practices including committing to one-on-one time with each child, affirming their strengths, reinforcing positive behaviors, listening without judgment, accepting ambivalent feelings, reflecting understanding, connecting words to feelings, allowing silence and giving children space to not talk.” 1

Children do not come with guidelines or instructions. What they do come with is a crucial set of physical and emotional needs that need to be met. To raise children properly, parents duties are not limited to just food, shelter and protection. Parents are largely responsible for their children’s success in life. Parents are required to teach and educate children. They have to shape knowledge and character into their children to prepare them to face the real world. To be successful with this, parents must provide self esteem needs, teach moral and values and provide discipline that is both effective and appropriate. As the generations have changed, many parenting styles have evolved, as well.

Establishing positive parenting skills within the community will assist the parents in gaining new alternatives to their current practices. “Often we get the same families that are repeat offenders or they never really learn their ways of parenting are not acceptable” (Ruiz, 2015). Providing the “Strong Families” curriculum will reduce the number of children that are

It’s true that different parents have distinct parenting styles. Each child must be disparate from another due to cultural background and upbringing. Three major parenting styles that have been around are tiger, helicopter, and free range parenting. In tiger parenting, parents are strict, while in free range it is just the opposite, parents let loose and let their children be who they are and allow them to take risks. The article “I am a helicopter parent, and I don’t apologize” by Elizabeth Fairfield Strokes is an epitome of helicopter parenting and what goes on in a mind of helicopter parent. Helicopter parenting refers to "a style of parents who are over focused on their children," says Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D., director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders near Detroit and author of Anxiety Disorders: The Go-To Guide. "They typically take too much responsibility

Martin Luther King Jr. once said in “The Purpose of Education,” that “Intelligence plus character – that is a goal of true education.” Good character is defined as a particular feature or quality that is ingrained in a person throughout their lifetime. Character represents many qualities, which separates one person from another. Many parents wish that when their child would grow up, as a caring, and an honest person. Many people argue whether schools should provide character education besides academics. Character education programs are beyond the bounds of what happens in school. Parents are required to participate in order to contribute the same good values the schools are trying to contribute. I agree that schools should teach character in addition to academics, but they should also make an effort in involving the parents. Both the school and parents should uphold the responsibility together. The schools and parents should work together to inspire character strengths in a child.

Children become aware that their feelings and desires are essential and must be accounted for. Growing up in a supportive environment enables children to form open and trusting relationships with their parents. However, sometimes parents fail to meet emotional or physical needs of their children. Through the failure of meeting the child’s need, eventually, leads to a more dysfunctional relationship.

Over the course of an individual’s life span, one is seen forming relationships with several people in whom they find their presence an important aspect to their life. However, among these relationships, parent-child relationships are the most valuable, but also very complex. These relationships are built from a foundation of interaction starting from the birth of the child to their adulthood. Unfortunately, if this involvement is not present within a child’s life, it can ultimately cause them to feel neglected causing outrageous conflicts, behavior issues and emotional disputes. Parental involvement within a child’s life allows them to gain a sense of security ultimately increasing new learning of the child

Throughout the years education has taken many different directions, each direction presenting new positive and negative outcomes. One of the newest directions the school system has taken is the inclusion movement. As a result of the inclusion movement some other changes within the classroom have been made. This includes behavior management programs. This has led to the development of Positive Behavioral Support.

Parenting is far more difficult than people make it out to be. According to Carol Gioia, a Senior Community Advisor for Helium Network, “Being a parent is potentially one of the most rewarding life experiences a person can have. It might also be the most difficult, for parenting is a round-the-clock endeavor filled with demands and obligations”. Gioia makes a point that not everyone will live up to be “good parents” because no parent is perfect, but they can be good by enforcing a never-ending supply of unconditional love. In the article “What Makes a Good Parent” Robert Epstein provides that some parenting skills have been proven to conduct better out comes in children’s happiness, health, and behavior. In the memoir The Glass Castle, the

Using story characters in brief story vignettes children were interviewed about their evaluation of the story character’s ability. One conclusion of the study was how educators are influenced by information such as social setting or social category membership as a lens to student behavior. As such included in instruction must also be resources to develop and teach students new expectations for respectful interactions. Ones that create classrooms in which students can demonstrate caring and respect for one

Effective parenting is crucial to the healthy development of a child, especially today. Parenting techniques typically carry on from generation to generation, whether they are negative or positive.(CITE) There are more effective ways to discipline a child other than by physical abuse. One of the many reasons children act out is due to lack of attention, causing them to do things to receive it.(CITE) Developing a positive and supportive relationship with a child can be crucial in positively influencing the behavior of a child . Being consistent in the amount of time you spend with them daily can be very beneficial. The child will begin to understand that the parents still love him/her without having to act out of character. Once the relationship is set and healthy, positive behavior will begin to emerge. Set clear guidelines, but do so in a way that the child does not feel unloved or neglected.

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future,” (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States). Our future is in the hands of all the students today, however, society cannot reach its full potential with the copious amount of teen pregnancies and abuse due to uneducated and unprepared parents. In order to prevent these problematic effects of unqualified parents, high school students must cooperate with schools to become educated about caring for our future generation properly and effectively. Schools are the only institutions capable of the widespread implementation of parenting education. Therefore, parenting classes should be mandatory for all high school students in the United States of America.

Teachers have a vital role and their tasks are many in the classroom, they must be an educator, and a manager of children’s disruptive behavior regardless of their best efforts teachers detect students constantly becoming off task or showing disruptive behavior; such as calling out across the room, arguing, noncompliance, tantrums (Perle, 2016). To combat disruptive behavior researchers have noted that character education is a unit of the child’s growth, which marks the child’s tendencies and dimensions to be in control, and allows them to have moral and self-management (Lapsley and Yeager, 2013). There has been a revival of character education, placing a strong emphasis on the teachings of moral qualities, and has been a wide spread instructional trend the past decade. Character education is one way some schools in a variety of communities are trying to improve these behaviors (Davis, 2007). In addition, a well-known body of research discoveries purports that children living in impoverished areas have a more advanced risk of developing a diversity of social, demonstrative, and behavioral problems (Armstrong, 2009; Eamon, 2001) With the aim of developing character virtues demonstrating virtues such as compassion, bravery and thankfulness in youth are being properly adopted into school curricula in several countries (Olof Franck. 2017). Teachers and parents are of great concern for children’s moral virtues (Lapsley and Yeager, 2013).

Although many critics within the academic world will oppose by saying that character and self-esteem are taught through academia, I firmly reject that stance as a child’s first point of contact in terms of socialization is at home, with one’s family and community. This means that a child is first taught, at home, the character traits that will help him excel regardless of the impact school has on him.